Brandon Routh Will Play Superman Again for This Year's Crisis on Infinite Earths Crossover

[wyldwolf]

Personally, I believe he did a fine job in Singer's 2006 underrated yet largely underwhelming Superman Returns.

Superman returns! Again. Twice over, actually.

Deadline is reporting that both Tyler Hoechlin’s CW Superman and Brandon Routh—currently playing the delightful Ray Palmer, a.k.a. The Atom, on Legends of Tomorrow—will suit up as the Man of Steel for this fall’s climactic Arrowverse crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths, a take on the seminal DC Comics super event that shaped the DC multiverse as we know it.

Routh said of the news, “Honored, humbled, grateful, and still pinching myself.”

This isn’t Ray Palmer putting on Clark’s spare spandex, but Routh actually playing Superman: or rather a Superman, from a different time/place than Hoechlin’s take on the character. Whether it’s a future version of Hoeclin’s Superman, a Superman from a different multiverse, or indeed even the actual straight-up Superman Returns Superman making an appearance remains to be seen. It wouldn’t be the first time the CW have used a crossover to offer a sneaky link to the DC movies!

We’ll no doubt learn a lot more about the Crisis to come at the CW/DC panels at Comic-Con, kicking off with Arrow in San Diego tomorrow afternoon, July 20.


https://io9.gizmodo.com/brandon-routh-will-play-superman-again-for-this-years-c-1836533157

[MicaelS]

1. At the time first Crisis mini-series was the BIG thing.

I hated it then, and I still do now. I always wanted to kick Marv Wolfman's ass. The DC Universe has changed so many time since then it renders Crisis irrelevant. In fact they re-introduced the Multiverse. To me the whole thing was a terrific waste, especially the Killing off of Barry Allen, and Supergirl.

However it will be great to see Routh as Superman again.

[wyldwolf]

2. Some sources are reporting he'll be old Kingdom Come Superman.

[MicaelS]

3. That IS interesting. n/t

[exboyfil]

5. Did someone say Kingdom Come

Please, please at least give us the animated version. That is near the top of my adaptation list.

I am still trying to figure out why the Justice League was fighting the Fatal Five and not the Legion. The Legion also needs a non-kiddy adaptation.

[wyldwolf]

9. Rumor now is Routh will play some form of supes in DC Streaming's Stargirl series

... which will likely be swallowed up by Warner's new Streaming service HBO MAX.

[exboyfil]

4. It wasn't the first grand epic

but it seemed to fuel a bad trend of cramming virtually every hero into a plot line every few years (see Secret Wars on the Marvel side). I always thought it was superior to Secret Wars.

I think the original concept of rebooting every 20 years or so was a good one. The Flash of Two Worlds was a masterful solution that JLA later took and ran with. Having the Justice Society on Earth 2 made sense. The reimagings of the Flash and Green Lantern being explained in this fashion was also good. It was a such a good idea that Marvel has taken it and ran with it.

Collapsing all the heroes down into one reality was a bad idea, and you are right that it spawned a multitude of later sins.

I didn't mind either death if they stuck like Gwen Stacy. There should be consequences. Barry and Kara could come back in the next rebooted Earth.

You are right about Routh. He was the best thing about the confusing Superman Returns. In fairness to him the seeds of its destruction was set by the decision to have Superman wipe Lois Lane's memory in Superman II. That was an awful decision. Singer hinted around the edges of the implications of it, but even he was unwilling to take it head on. I thought it made great sense to continue the story line from Superman II. I would like to give out other mulligans.

Continue Aliens from Alien II (Aliens)
Continue Michael Keaton's Batman from Batman Return
Continue Terminator from Terminator II (maybe they are doing this)
A Tobey Maguire Spider-Verse dark universe with Morbius, Venom continuing from Spider-Man II

[MicaelS]

6. Terminator Dark Fate is the direct sequel to T2.

According to James Cameron who is producing it. He has stated that T3, T4 and T5 are "alternate timelines".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator:_Dark_Fate

27 years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a new, modified liquid metal Terminator (Gabriel Luna) is sent from the future by Skynet in order to terminate Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes), a hybrid cyborg human (Mackenzie Davis), and her friends. Sarah Connor comes to their aid, as well as the original Terminator, for a fight for the future.

[exboyfil]

7. That is very satisfying

Maybe it will start a trend to recover good franchises that were driven into the ground.

Thank You. I might actually pay to see this in a theater. I don't think I ever saw T5. The franchise has been dead to me for awhile.

[MicaelS]

8. I liked T5.

I would sure like the know the rest of the trilogy story.

[Capt. America]

10. Good for him and good for WB for asking him to do it.

Routh was not the problem with Superman Returns.