I read a report out of Hollywood yesterday that the casting of Superman for the Justice League<\/i> film may have be decided.<\/p>\n
Rupert Evans.<\/p>\n
I’ll be honest. The first time I read that, I misread it at “Rupert Everett<\/i>.” And, I can safely say, I absolutely did not<\/i> see Rupert Everett as the Man of Steel.<\/p>\n
Evans, of course, was Agent John T. Myers in the first Hellboy<\/i> film. (Is he is the second? I’m clueless. Does anyone know?)<\/p>\n
I guess I can see him as Superman. I’d say that he seems small for the role, but considering he was acting against Ron Perlman in Hellboy<\/i>, even an NBA star would seem small.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, I’m hearing Hellboy<\/i>-like dialogue in my head…<\/p>\n Hellboy<\/b>: Kid, didn’t I see you in tights on tv? I don’t know whether Justice League<\/i> will be a whole lot of good, bad, or complete suckage. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I read a report out of Hollywood yesterday that the casting of Superman for the Justice League film may have be decided. Rupert Evans. I’ll be honest. The first time I read that, I misread it at “Rupert Everett.” And, I can safely say, I absolutely did not see Rupert Everett as the Man ofContinue reading “On the New Superman”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[4092,4106,457,455],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-comic-books","tag-film","tag-justice-league","tag-superman","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMyers<\/b>: Tights? You’ve got to be joking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n