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Superman Movie Reboot

Post by therogue » Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:02 pm

Honestly, I'd forgotten that there was yet another Superman movie in the works until it started trending on twitter.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/henry-c ... -superman/

Superman has apparantly been cast. Henry Cavill whom I believe previously was best known for The Tudors and being the runner up for a lot of big parts (Bond & Batman)

However the movie will turn out, the man certainly is easy on the eyes :P

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The British actors are pulling in the comic book parts in current movies. Spiderman, Batman and now Superman.

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Post by DeadPoolX » Sun Jan 30, 2011 5:52 pm

WTF? Another reboot? :roll:
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Re: Superman Movie Reboot

Post by Collector » Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:03 pm

Enough with the F'ing reboots and remakes. Is it really that hard to come up with an original idea every now and then? Give me a so-so original idea any day over this constant regurgitation/recycling of old, stale, used ideas.
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Re: Superman Movie Reboot

Post by Datadog » Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:38 pm

I swear, if the first half of this movie is us sitting through the origin story again, I am going to start setting things on fire.
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Post by Collector » Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:41 pm

Datadog wrote:I swear, if the first half of this movie is us sitting through the origin story again, I am going to start setting things on fire.
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Post by MusicallyInspired » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:38 am

Superman is an American icon isn't he? How can they have a British person star as an American icon? Unless he has a decent enough accent.
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Re: Superman Movie Reboot

Post by Tawmis » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:06 am

DeadPoolX wrote:WTF? Another reboot? :roll:
Did you see the last Superman? It NEEDS a reboot.
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Re: Superman Movie Reboot

Post by therogue » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:51 am

MusicallyInspired wrote:Superman is an American icon isn't he? How can they have a British person star as an American icon? Unless he has a decent enough accent.
There are quite a few British/Australian/other nations actors playing North American characters. As mentioned, the current Batman and Spiderman actors are Brits, a little less iconic maybe but the current Professor Xavier is Scottish. The numbers are even bigger on the small screen though. US Tv shows with Brits/Australians in leading roles I can think of: The Wire, Band of Brothers, Fringe, Chuck, House, The Mentalist, Without A Trace, Battlestar Galactica, True Blood, Hawaii 5-0 (new one) etc etc

No clue on Cavill's accent skills. I don't think I've ever seen him in a role that wasn't British.

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Post by MusicallyInspired » Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:16 am

Yes, but none of them are American icons. Superman has the American colours all over him. And I had no idea Christian Bale was British.

And besides, Patrick Stewart already played Prof Xavier in the other 4 X-Men movies.
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Re: Superman Movie Reboot

Post by therogue » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:06 am

I thought superman was originally created by a Canadian? :P

I think that Mr Bale is Welsh originally to be exact :P

Still, I'm a little suprised they went with a Brit. If an American actor was cast as James Bond people would be losing their shit all over the place. To add, isn't Green Lantarn Canadian and Thor Australian. (I still say Alexandar Skarsgard would have made an amazing Thor :P)

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Post by AndreaDraco » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:29 am

therogue wrote: To add, isn't Green Lantarn Canadian and Thor Australian. (I still say Alexandar Skarsgard would have made an amazing Thor :P)
Alexander Skarsgard would make an amazing anything :lol:
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Post by DeadPoolX » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:37 am

therogue wrote:I thought superman was originally created by a Canadian? :P
Superman was created by BOTH an American and a Canadian. 8-)

Where did the whole "Superman was a created by a Canadian" myth start? Apparently Canadians are told this, but it's still wrong.

For the record, I'd say it's just as inaccurate to state that "Superman was created by an American."
therogue wrote:To add, isn't Green Lantarn Canadian?
Do you mean the character or the actor? The character is American, but the actor (Ryan Reynolds) is Canadian.

I think Canadians in particular have an easy time playing Americans. Obviously, accents depend on region, but depending on where you live in the US and Canada, accents can seem the same or at least close enough.

At least the actor who's playing Captain America is American. That would've been too weird to see a non-American in that role.
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Re: Superman Movie Reboot

Post by therogue » Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:23 pm

The actor who believe it or not is still on telly practically daily here in a show called Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place.
Alexander Skarsgard would make an amazing anything :lol:
Yes indeed he would :lol:

Have you seen one of his earlier Swedish movies, Hundtricket? Quite different from the very serious Generation Kill ;)

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Post by AndreaDraco » Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:17 pm

therogue wrote:Have you seen one of his earlier Swedish movies, Hundtricket? Quite different from the very serious Generation Kill ;)
No, I haven't. Any good?
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Re: Superman Movie Reboot

Post by therogue » Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:20 am

Its no piece of high art but I thought it was fun and high on the eyecandy scale ;)

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