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 frivolously 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 in all probability value him some juicy roles. As he advised Empire On-line in 2016:
“I feel simply the shortage of understanding what was occurring for thus lengthy was positively 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 is perhaps off-limits, sure roles. At the very least for the primary couple of years once I thought we might be coming again. Because it received additional away, that turned much less and fewer of a problem.”
Finally, “Superman Returns” was a industrial failure due largely to its large $232 million funds, and Routh’s time carrying the cape was short-lived. Finally, he began taking over a few of these roles he in all probability would not have dared contact when he thought he would possibly must report again for responsibility 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 received to play Superman once more on the large display, luckily for followers of each Routh’s and the film, he would finally get to step again into the position another time because of The CW’s large Arrowverse TV crossover occasion, “Disaster on Infinite Earths,” in 2019.
