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I had to look him up because I couldn’t remember his name, but I’d go with “Law and Order” era Richard Brooks.
Black Dynamite himself, Michael Jai White.
Richard Pryor. Sort of put an everyman spin on superman.
What a delightful ensemble of decaying old men and actors nobody’s heard from since the 90s.
I don’t know Glover, but you always want to cast for the secret identity. Anyone can put on a costume, but you need an actor for behind the mask/cape.
Seriously though, Taye Diggs. He can even do Clark Kent…
Chiwetel Ejiofor is a great actor but Superman has to be at least somewhat tall and big. He doesn’t have to be gigantic, but Ejiofor is 5’10" or so and thin.
The truth is that the ideal black Superman would probably be someone nobody had heard of, just as few people had ever heard of Christopher Reeve. If we’d had this discussion around a table in a bar in 1977 saying “who should play Superman” the answers would have been people like Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight and Paul Newman, all of whom would have been inferior choices to Reeve, who was cast - correctly - not because he was Christopher Reeve, but because he was so damn good at being Superman.
Flip Wilson.
I’ll third Dwayne Johnson.
The literature teacher in the 60s series Room 222. Lloyd Haynes, I think. Neither Washington nor Smith will cut it. Denzel looks too mean and sharp. And there’s nothing “super” about Will’s face in terms of features and deportment. I’d sooner get Forest Whitaker.
As backup, that action trio in the 70s: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, and Richard Roundtree.
In his spare time from supporting roles in a couple of remarkably successful movies last year, Dwayne Johnson played leading man in a couple of other successful movies last year, which is why his Hercules movie is set to hit theaters later this year.
No love for Samuel L. Jackson?
As Jor-El, perhaps.
Post #5.
Burt Reynolds as Superman? That woulda been awesome.
I can just picture Norm McDonald now. Chomping on the gum. “Yah. I’m Superman. Sure, I fly around and stuff. Hey, Lois Lane, c’mere. Gonna save the planet now.”
As for Chiwetel… c’mon. Can’t any of our heroes be 'Murrican anymore?
The episode of the family Guy where he was the voice of the Grim Reaper was pretty awesome - I can see where you’re goin with this.
OK… I’ll say it, Robert Townsend. He was Meteor Man after all, so he should have a leg up on the source material, right? 