When it was announced last week that Christopher Meloni, formerly of Law & Order: SVU and Wet Hot American Summer, had signed on for the cast of Zack Snyder's Superman flick Man of Steel, Russ couldn't help speculating what this might mean for the movie -- and wondering whether Meloni might be filling the role…
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Briefly: Zack Snyder has already got his cast to play Clark Kent's adoptive Earthly parents in his new Superman tale, The Man of Steel. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane will be Ma and Pa Kent to Henry Cavill's Clark. But in his prior life on Krypton, Clark -- aka Kal-el -- has a set of…
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Last month, it was rumored that Michael Shannon was in talks to play a villain role in Zack Snyder's new Superman: Man of Steel. Today Warner Bros has officially announced that Shannon has signed on to star in the film, as Kryptonian villain Zod. This is just a couple weeks after Zack Snyder said that…
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A few years back when George Miller was developing a Justice League film he cast it with actors that had no ties to other DC comics movies. Granted, there were fewer DC movies then, but that Justice League wouldn't have featured Brandon Routh as Superman or Christian Bale as Batman. If it had been made,…
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Rumors have been circulating for a while now about which actress would win the role of Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's Superman. Back in February, reports named Kristen Stewart, Rachel McAdams, Jessica Biel, Dianna Agron, Malin Akerman, Olivia Wilde, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and either Kristen Bell or Lake Bell as being among the actresses up…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley try to figure out what Kevin Smith was going for in Cop Out, assess the career of David Goyer, and shower praise on Triangle, The Last Airbender, and the Muppet movies. Special guest Laremy Legel joins us from Film.com. You can…
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If it was up to Superman Returns title star Brandon Routh, Warner Bros would have kept the Justice League movie in a jar for a few more years. Routh, who admits that he was never approached by the studio to be part of the now defunct JLA feature film tells Collider that the timing was…
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Thomas Tull, founder, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures (the company behind Batman Begins, Superman Returns and 300), told Hamilton students on April 17 that the Superman Returns sequel, Superman: Man of Steel, will present Superman as more of "an angry god". I wonder what that possibly could mean? Obviously they aren't going to completely…
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Some major developments for the sequel to Superman Returns, tentatively titled Superman: The Man of Steel, hit the web today in quick succession. First, IESB reports that they've received "100%" confirmation that Bryan Singer will return to direct the flick and they've also heard that writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Transformers, J.J. Abrams's Star…
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A sequel to Superman Returns has been in limbo since the beginning. Warner Bros was unhappy with how the film performed, and fans were unhappy with the lack of action and unnecessary out-of-canon third act plot twist. But director Bryan Singer showed up at Comic Con expressing his desire to make a sequel that would…
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Bad News: It looks like Bryan Singer will be filming The Mayor of Castro Street before the Superman Returns sequel after all. Good News: This morning it was announced that Kevin Spacey has signed on to return as Lex Luthor in Superman: Man of Steel. Spacey hopes to shoot his part during a six-week block,…
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