No-one has really liked any of the actors who played Superman since Christopher Reeve died. And before Reeve died, everyone thought he was a bit rubbish as well. Still, no-one is as bad as Toby Maguire’s Spiderman. Those films made Condorman look like the greatest superhero romp ever made.
And so, joining the pantheon on Supermen like Ray Middleton, George Reeves, Dean Cain, Tom Welling and John Barrowman lookalike, Brandon Routh is star of The Tudors, Henry Cavill.
Who? He’s the next Man of Steel you idiot and we’ve got the first image of him in his Superman costume and, well, it is rather exciting that we’ve managed to get hold of such an image, leaked from presumably his audition for the role.
Henry Cavill is famous around Hollywood. Not because he’s very agile and willing to take unspeakable abuse on the casting couch… but rather, he was well known for being the unluckiest man in Hollywood. Cavill missed out on roles in the new Batman flicks and was nearly James Bond.
Even the tremendously ineffectual Brandon Routh beat him to gig of playing the superest of men in Superman Returns in 2006.
And so, Cavill plodding along as Henry VIII?s advisor, Charles Brandon, in The Tudors. That’s on television and isn’t very good if you haven’t seen it.
He completes a triple for British actors playing superfolk with Andrew Garfield playing the new Spiderman and Christian Bale pretending to be Batman. Of course, when Superheroes end up on-screen, their outfits need modernising and as you can see from our leaked picture below, the new outfit will me a CGI affair. Will it be some kind of symbiotic suit that emerges around Clark Kent’s body, rather than something he wears under his work trousers like a pervert secretly wearing stockings and garters?
Anyway, this new flick is being looked after by Christopher Nolan and David S Goyer who helped to revamp Batman into a dark, brooding tale, away from the hammy, campery of the previous outings.
Now, the suit. Just look at it. Streamlined, classic and Cavill is showing off the lazer eyes which made Superman such a force to be reckoned with.
You can thank us later.
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crimsoncrusader says
Haha! That was pretty hilarious. Made my morning. :)
AMERICA says
It’s a bird… It’s a plane…
IT’S THTUUUUUUUUPERFAGGOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude says
tongue in cheek comments, how original. fags.