With the legacy of Superman and Christopher Reeve weighing on him, Brandon Routh — who was a little-known actor on the time — determined to tread extraordinarily evenly within the time instantly following each being solid in “Superman Returns” and the movie’s launch. He felt he wanted to maintain extra of a squeaky clear picture to ensure that the viewers to actually purchase him because the Final Son of Krypton. It is a transfer he later realized most likely price him some juicy roles. As he informed Empire On-line in 2016:
“I believe simply the shortage of figuring out what was happening for thus lengthy was undoubtedly a problem, as a result of I felt the necessity to uphold a picture. Nobody requested me to uphold one, however that is how a lot I cared in regards to the character. I felt sure issues may be off-limits, sure roles. At the least for the primary couple of years after I thought we might be coming again. Because it bought additional away, that grew to become much less and fewer of a problem.”
Finally, “Superman Returns” was a business failure due largely to its large $232 million funds, and Routh’s time carrying the cape was short-lived. Ultimately, he began taking up a few of these roles he most likely would not have dared contact when he thought he would possibly must report again for obligation as Clark Kent once more, such because the one he tackled in Kevin Smith’s ribald intercourse comedy “Zack and Miri Make a Porno.” And whereas he by no means bought to play Superman once more on the large display screen, happily for followers of each Routh’s and the film, he would finally get to step again into the function another time because of The CW’s large Arrowverse TV crossover occasion, “Disaster on Infinite Earths,” in 2019.
