When CHUD gets something wrong, I’m happy to strike it out, rewrite it, and admit it.
Variety’s site doesn’t work for me. Not the paywall, not the free previews, nothing. I saw “female Superman lead” and used a healthy amount of pop culture logic that it would be Lois Lane.
I can’t be the only one to have made the gaffe, since Twitter was also screaming about a foreign Lois Lane. Either the initial story was unclear and updated as I went offline, or we all had the same page lock-up, and thought “Oh, female lead. Must be Lois.”
Regardless. Old story gone, new story up. My most sincere apologies. I don’t normally make that kind of huge gaffe and I cringe that it reflects on CHUD.
But the essential part of the story isn’t changed: Rosemund Pike, Diane Kruger, and Alice Eve are up for the female lead in Superman. It’s simply an unknown character. Presumably, she is blonde. Perhaps she is also foreign. If this is truly a “Superman wanders the world” tale, maybe she is a gorgeous European he meets who reminds him how wonderful Earth is and how desperately it needs a hero.
Perhaps the Smallville theorists are correct, and she is Lana Lang.
She could be Cat Grant, gossip reporter and brief romantic interest for Clark Kent. Maybe this isn’t a love interest at all, but Captain Maggie Sawyer, though I can’t imagine even a Superman reboot is ready for a lesbian.
Nevertheless, it is strange and interesting that Superman is taking on such a European flavor with the casting. I don’t think we’re actually getting an English Superman (come on!), but I do wonder if this is a tale that has a more global bent. The big angle with this Superman is that it’s supposed to reinvent him for a modern world, and show his relevance. I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine that angle is to make him look beyond America’s borders, and actually be Earth’s hero, not just America’s. This is something the comics have done, but the movies really haven’t. (Bryan Singer tried, but it just didn’t feel very expansive.)
Perhaps we’ll soon learn the identity of the Mysterious Blonde (rumor has it a big Superman story falls on Super Bowl Sunday), and unlock the movie from there.
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Ursa?
Brian Singer did not try to make Superman a global hero. He paid lip service to the idea. Where Singer actually tries, he mostly succeeds. He tried very hard to make Superman mopey and sad about Lois, and succeeded.
A European blonde, Clark travelling the world tells me Team Nolan are trying to appeal to a more global audience. You can count on Supes saving Paris, Hamburg and Tokyo in the first hour before jetting back to Metropolis. Also a blond European is distinct from Lois (who WILL be a brunette American actress, guaranteed).
Supergirl…. ugh
Logical Theories: Possibly Supergirl, so that Clark isn’t the lone survivor of Krypton and has someone to brood with? Or maybe a new version of Lana – they’ll just dye her hair red – which I hope to god not, because I’m sick of every version of Lana?
Slightly Odd Theory: We can’t seem to get rid of that Chloe chick that they made up for Smallville. Maybe they’re putting her ass into this movie.
Completely Insane Theory: Lyla Lerrol. Obviously.
The whole basis for Superman’s character is he protects the world because of his American roots. He does what he does because of mid-western American values that Nolan seems not to get. Seriously, Nolan and Snyder do not get Supes and this is reason alone to never want to see a film from two guys and Nolan’s life, that think Superman is not INTERNATIONAL enough, when he’s clearly been an AMERICAN whose a HERO TO THE WORLD for decades now.
Because if there’s one area of the world that needs championing, it’s Kansas.
Hey, Kansas needs love too!
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