cheese (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} loverly) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} ohnotheydidnt,@ 2008-09-04 23:33:00 |
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Henry Cavill for SUPERMAN!
Never mind the battle between Barack Obama and John McCain in the USA presidential campaign, the superhero world has its own politics and lobbying going on.
Now that Warner Bros says the next Superman movie will be a reboot, it's left a power vacuum for a new actor and director to step in.
The Superman Returns crew - director Bryan Singer and actor Brandon Routh - are out of the running if the next movie is a fresh start.
Online, there has a growing campaign for Smallville actor Tom Welling to get his trunks on over his tights for the next Superman movie. He's played a teen version of Clark Kent for long enough - fans want him to finally become the fully-fledged hero.
But Welling isn't the only candidate in this race. There's also strong support for British actor Henry Cavill, who has smouldered as Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, in The Tudors and in a men's fragrance commercial for Dunhill.
It's especially worth noting that Cavill auditioned for the role of Superman when Warner Bros was casting Superman Returns in 2004.
Cavill, 25, also appeared in The Count of Monte Cristo, Hellraiser: Hellworld, Tristan and Isolde, and Stardust. He auditioned for the lead in Batman Begins, losing out to Christian Bale, and also became a contender for the role of the revamped James Bond in Casino Royale.
He did a final screentest for Bond and was up against Daniel Craig and Sam Worthington for the 007 role. But the studio ultimately thought Cavill too young for the part.
But although he's missed out on previous Superman, Batman and Bond roles, he still remains a strong contender for the next Superman.
Other possibilities include 35-year-old Canadian actor Victor Webster, who played the electricity-generating Brennan in TV sci-fi show Mutant X and has also been in Baywatch, Sex and the City, Charmed and CSI: Miami among numerous TV and film credits.
Webster did a costume screentest as Clark Kent and as Superman for a previous film project called Superman: Flyby, back in 2002. That film, to have been directed by Brett Ratner, was never made in the end.
There's also Michael Trucco, 38, who plays Samuel Anders in Battlestar Galactica and has also been in One Tree Hill and Eli Stone.
The name of Geoff Stults has also mentioned by fans. Stults, 30, appears in TV show 7th Heaven with his real-life brother George Stults.
And then there's D. J. Cotrona, 28, who was due to play Superman in the long-mooted, often-delayed Justice League movie.
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The bolded parts are always mentioned in anything about him but it's still kind of tragic, hah. LOL @ them mentioning Hellraiser. Bb's filmography is so scarce :(
Never mind the battle between Barack Obama and John McCain in the USA presidential campaign, the superhero world has its own politics and lobbying going on.
Now that Warner Bros says the next Superman movie will be a reboot, it's left a power vacuum for a new actor and director to step in.
The Superman Returns crew - director Bryan Singer and actor Brandon Routh - are out of the running if the next movie is a fresh start.
Online, there has a growing campaign for Smallville actor Tom Welling to get his trunks on over his tights for the next Superman movie. He's played a teen version of Clark Kent for long enough - fans want him to finally become the fully-fledged hero.
But Welling isn't the only candidate in this race. There's also strong support for British actor Henry Cavill, who has smouldered as Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, in The Tudors and in a men's fragrance commercial for Dunhill.
It's especially worth noting that Cavill auditioned for the role of Superman when Warner Bros was casting Superman Returns in 2004.
Cavill, 25, also appeared in The Count of Monte Cristo, Hellraiser: Hellworld, Tristan and Isolde, and Stardust. He auditioned for the lead in Batman Begins, losing out to Christian Bale, and also became a contender for the role of the revamped James Bond in Casino Royale.
He did a final screentest for Bond and was up against Daniel Craig and Sam Worthington for the 007 role. But the studio ultimately thought Cavill too young for the part.
But although he's missed out on previous Superman, Batman and Bond roles, he still remains a strong contender for the next Superman.
Other possibilities include 35-year-old Canadian actor Victor Webster, who played the electricity-generating Brennan in TV sci-fi show Mutant X and has also been in Baywatch, Sex and the City, Charmed and CSI: Miami among numerous TV and film credits.
Webster did a costume screentest as Clark Kent and as Superman for a previous film project called Superman: Flyby, back in 2002. That film, to have been directed by Brett Ratner, was never made in the end.
There's also Michael Trucco, 38, who plays Samuel Anders in Battlestar Galactica and has also been in One Tree Hill and Eli Stone.
The name of Geoff Stults has also mentioned by fans. Stults, 30, appears in TV show 7th Heaven with his real-life brother George Stults.
And then there's D. J. Cotrona, 28, who was due to play Superman in the long-mooted, often-delayed Justice League movie.
Source
The bolded parts are always mentioned in anything about him but it's still kind of tragic, hah. LOL @ them mentioning Hellraiser. Bb's filmography is so scarce :(
