![]() Otherwise, Superman's godlike invulnerability to harm was thoroughly intact in Superman Returns, as a thief found out when the Man of Steel effortlessly withstood machine gun fire and allowed himself to be shot point-blank in his eyeball, which repelled the bullet harmlessly. Superman's strength was truly tested at the conclusion of the film when he lifted Lex Luthor's (Kevin Spacey) Kryptonian crystal continent into space, which was all the more impressive since the alien landmass was laced with Kryptonite and he nearly died in the attempt. Most of what Routh did as Superman was catch and lift heavy objects, such as when he performed a spectacular airplane rescue and landed the vehicle in the middle of a baseball field to wild applause. ![]() Despite being able to fly in deep space, Routh's Superman still utilized a Kryptonian space ship to travel to the ruins of Krypton in the five years he was gone from Earth at the start of Superman Returns. Since Routh and Reeve were the same Kryptonian superhero, Routh had all of the powers and did all of the things Reeve did in the first two Superman movies. Bryan Singer's 2006 film Superman Returns was a sequel to Superman II vaguely set "five years later" that ignored Superman III and IV. In Superman IV, Superman was defeated by Nuclear Man (Mark Pillow) in that same film, Superman captured every nuclear missile on Earth, placed them in a giant net in outer space, and hurled the net into the sun.īrandon Routh's Superman was intended to be the same character played by Christopher Reeve. In Superman II, Kal-El met his match with the three Kryptonian villains, General Zod (Terrence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas), and Non (Jack O'Halloran), who all had the same powers as he did. This made finding worthy opponents for Superman a challenge for the filmmakers. There really were no limits to what Superman could do in Christopher Reeve's films, and that included splitting himself into good and evil versions in Superman III so they could fight for supremacy in a junkyard. In the later Superman films, the Kryptonian manifested ridiculous powers like "Repair the Great Wall of China Vision", but this was likely just a shortcut because of Superman IV: The Quest For Peace's budgetary issues. In the sequels, Superman showed off even more strange abilities, such as being able to make Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) forget he is Clark Kent with a kiss. As Cavill said, “my turn to wear the cape has passed,” which raises the obvious question: who will be our next Superman?Ī May article in The Hollywood Reporter shed a little more light on the casting process for James Gunn’s new Superman in Superman: Legacy, suggesting that casting has hit a “crucial phase,” with Pearl star David Corenswet being the current horse with his nose at the front of the race.Superman's greatest (and most infamous) display of his godlike powers is when he flew around the world and turned back time, which his father Jor-El (Marlon Brando) expressly forbade him to do. ![]() Clearly, there's no love lost between Cavill and new DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran, and we can't help but feel a little sorry about the collateral damage in what seems like a messy studio overhaul. After being told by the studio to announce my return back in October, prior to their hire, this news isn’t the easiest, but that’s life". In a post on Instagram, Cavill told fans “I will, after all, not be returning as Superman. Despite what seemed like confirmation from Johnson and buy-in from Cavill in the form of the latter leaving The Witcher to, we had assumed, take over the mantle of the Man of Steel once again, it's been confirmed he is no longer playing the character. After a grand re-entry into the DCEU with a cameo in Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam, which was met with cheers, whoops, and hollers in cinemas around the world, Henry Cavill's tenure in Superman's red cape has been cut mercilessly short. ![]() There's so much whiplash in the DC Universe that you'd be forgiven for believing Superman has turned the world on its axis.
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