# Isn't it about time for new Superman movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168 "2004-12-05T04:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/1 "2004-12-05T04:54:00Z")
I think so! Who plays Superman? So many decisions. What would make a good Superman movie script? Start again with the origin, or brush by it quick? Buffoonish, campy villans or heart attack serious? Do you make a it a meta human/superhero populated world re Justice League etc., or is he the only super being? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/2 "2004-12-05T05:02:30Z")
Er. [Bryan Singer](http://www.superherohype.com/news/supermannews.php?id=2240) is way ahead of you. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/3 "2004-12-05T05:10:43Z")
He directed the X-Men movies, this could be good… And Brandon Routh looks like a young Christopher Reeve–this could definitely be good. (At least they didn’t get Tom Welling!) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/4 "2004-12-05T05:11:41Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Er. > > [Bryan Singer](http://www.superherohype.com/news/supermannews.php?id=2240) is way ahead of you. I don’t know… [he looks more like one of the Sopranos gang](http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2004/11/21/pk_people-routh_ho.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/5 "2004-12-05T05:13:13Z")
Now I’m getting eerie visions of a Superman / Sopranos crossover… 😃 I still say he looks like a young Chris Reeve, and I stick to it! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/6 "2004-12-05T09:12:20Z")
Bruce Campbell’s Got the Chin, but people might not be able to take him seriously in the role. I have some high hopes, because it would be pretty damn hard to make a worse superman then “The Quest For Peace”. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/7 "2004-12-05T12:29:23Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Brandon Routh Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! I’m _OLDER_ than [Superman!](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746125/) :eek: This makes no sense This makes no sense This makes no sense This makes no sense This makes no sense O.K. I’m older than [Tom Welling](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919991/) too, but at least he’s supposed to be the _teenaged_ Clark Kent. Interestingly enough, Tom Welling is _also_ older than Brandon Routh. Anybody know what they’re going for, story-wise, that they would have cast someone so young? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/8 "2004-12-05T13:06:40Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! Holy Crap! > > I’m _OLDER_ than [Superman!](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746125/) :eek: > This makes no sense This makes no sense This makes no sense This makes no sense This makes no sense > > O.K. I’m older than [Tom Welling](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919991/) too, but at least he’s supposed to be the _teenaged_ Clark Kent. Interestingly enough, Tom Welling is _also_ older than Brandon Routh. Anybody know what they’re going for, story-wise, that they would have cast someone so young? He’ll be 26 when the movie comes out. Christopher Reeve was born in 1952. Guess how old he was when he first played Superman? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/9 "2004-12-05T13:58:35Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Christopher Reeve was born in 1952. Guess how old he was when he first played Superman? 23 years older than _me_! That’s all that matters! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/10 "2004-12-05T14:05:01Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > He’ll be 26 when the movie comes out. About the same age Superman was when he started his carreer. (He’s in his 30s, now…he started about 10 years ago in-continuity.) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/11 "2004-12-05T16:18:58Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Bruce Campbell’s Got the Chin, but people might not be able to take him seriously in the role. For years, Bruce Campbell was my top choice to play Superman. He can do the action hero thing, he has the perfect look, and he’d be great as a meek, mild-mannered Clark Kent too. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-about-time-for-new-superman-movie/278168/12 "2004-12-05T16:27:30Z")
I love Bruce Campbell, but he’s way too old to play Superman now.