See Henry Cavill in the Christopher Reeve Superman suit

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And if you'd like to see Cavill sporting a different suit again, be sure to check out a shot from his Superman: Flyby screen test

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Bryan Singer Explains Why He Didn't Cast Henry Cavill in "Superman Returns"

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Februar 2, 2014



"I saw ['Man of Steel'] when it came out," he said. "I am in awe of the world building and the scope of that picture. There were things I might have done a little differently just because of the way I view the character."

When Singer came on board to direct "Superman Returns," Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) was set to play Superman, but Singer replaced him with Brandon Routh. "I think Henry Cavill is great. I knew Henry. He and I were friends years ago," said the director. "The reason I didn't cast him was because I was making a sequel to Christopher Reeve and I wanted somebody who embodied Reeve more."

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Henry Cavill: Did You See This CHRISTOPHER REEVE’s Cameo in MAN OF STEEL? June 27, 2013 By Steve L (UNLEASH THE FANBOY)

I’m ashamed to say I never noticed this cameo in theatres, but apparently Christopher Reeve, the classic Superman from the 70′s and 80′s, stole a few frames from new blood Henry Cavill in MAN OF STEEL. For only a brief second or two, as Superman finally mustered the strength to fly straight through the World Engine, Director Scott Snyder replaced Cavill’s face with Reeve.

You can see it for a brief moment at the beginning of this gif.

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Man of Steel' trailer shows a majestic Superman, NBC NEWS

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Secret identities can be problematic. Like, say you could save an entire school bus full of kids when the bus sinks into a body of water, but it might mean that they discover you're Superman.




Those of us who still mourn Christopher Reeve, long for the iconic version of this hunky, clean-cut hero, can feel the legacy's in good hands after watching this trailer. British actor Henry Cavill, best-known from "The Tudors," is majestic and powerful in the few glimpses we get of him in full Supe costume.

"Man of Steel" opens June 14.

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Man of Latex: Henry Cavill Superman (ALT FILM GUIDE)

Henry Cavill Superman Man of Steel. Missing out on the role of Edward Cullen may (or may not) have been a professional blow for British actor Henry Cavill. (Author Stephenie Meyer wanted him, but he was “too old” at 24.)

Anyhow, you lose one, you win one. Robert Pattinson became a superstar as a result of the Twilight movies, but Cavill will quite likely become (at least) a "name actor" once Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot Man of Steel opens on June 14, 2013 — a little over a month after Cavill turns 30 (May 5).

True, in the above picture (via SuperHeroHype) taken during production of the Superman reboot, Henry Cavill looks more like "Man of Latex" than "Man of Steel." But this is no putdown: Cavill looks appropriately handsome, and his body looks just as appropriately ripped and sexually alluring — a must for every superhero (save The Incredible Hulk). In other words, he’ll certainly be an effective Superman. I mean, it’s hard to imagine someone like Henry Cavill being any less muscular and square-jawed — that’s pretty much what the role requires — than, say, previous Supermen Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh, or Dean Cain.

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Henry Cavill:'Man Of Steel' Comic-Con Panel: 'We Had To Act As If No Film Had Been Made' BY: Sean Comer POSTED: JULY 15, 2012 @ 7:47 AM PST (YIDIO)

It's hard to imagine "Man of Steel" director Zack Snyder summing up his process more encouragingly, considering Superman's big-screen legacy following Christopher Reeve's 1978 Richard Donner-directed debut: "We had to act as if no film had been made."

That was precisely what the "300" and "Dawn of the Dead" remake director told a curious, enthralled San Diego Comic-Con crowd Saturday during a panel offering his 2013 DC Comics reboot its most vast exposure yet, E! News reports. The footage attendees glimpsed featured a solemn Russell Crowe voiceover as Jor-El foretelling "children being inspired to greater things." As Kal-El/Clark Kent's Smallville father played by Kevin Costner opines some time after the Last Son of Krypton's unexpected Earthly arrival, "People are afraid of what they don't understand."

That bit of Costner dialogue could summarize any apprehension fans can - and do - hold toward another Superman effort following director Bryan Singer's 2006 "Superman Returns." Brandon Routh was cast into the late Reeve's tight, Kate Bosworth  filled in Margot Kidder's Lois Lane, and Kevin Spacey took over Gene Hackman's mantle as Lex Luthor. In what was meant to be a continuation from the original four-film lineage picking up years after "Superman IV," Routh and Bosworth looked conspicuously younger than their predecessors, Spacey was a scene-stealing Luthor despite a weak script, and though generally positively received by critics, a 72-percent Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating couldn't have been what Warner Bros. expected from an installment meant to revive a franchise.

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Henry Cavill: ‘Man of Steel’ Makes the Comic-Con Audience Weep, Fawn Over Henry Cavill Published: July 14, 2012 @ 5:48 pm (THE WRAP) By Lucas Shaw

The new Superman movie, ‘Man of Steel,’ overwhelmed Comic-Con fans to the point that one of them broke into tears while asking a question.

All the man wanted to know was who the villain would be, but director Zack Snyder and star Henry Cavill remained cagey about the reboot, hoping to keep as much as they could under wraps.


Though they would not reveal any details, Snyder did remind people that this will not pick up where past ones left off. They are reinventing the franchise.

“Superman needed to be reintroduced to a generation,” Snyder said.

“When we started working on the movie, we knew the comic book character existed, we knew the movies existed, but we had to act as if no film had been made.”

That means no John Williams score and no references to Christopher Reeve.

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Henry Cavill Talks About Playing Superman

            
Posted 11.21.11 by Chris

Only a handful of men who know what it is like to play Superman - George Reeves (the TV series Adventures of Superman), Kirk Alyn (two low-budget 1940 serials), Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman), Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), Tom Welling (Smallville) and now Henry Cavill.

The British actor, who can currently be seen in Immortals, talked with the L.A. Times' Hero Complex about who is harder to play — Superman or Clark Kent.

Essentially, yes, one is a disguise but the one that’s not a disguise is so unreal that brings difficulties of its own with it. I mean, once the shroud is cast off, yeah, there’s that — but he can fly. [Laughs] Overall, there’s no one that’s easier or less easy than the other. It is a lot of fun having two characters in one role which are so intertwined with each other. It’s the same person, definitely, but it’s the presentation. And that is fun.

The most interesting revelation of the interview is that despite Christopher Nolan serving as "godfather" and producer on Man of Steel, Cavill has yet to meet him (probably because Nolan is busy finishing up The Dark Knight Rises).

I haven’t seen him. He’s a busy man. I haven’t met him yet and I really look forward to meeting him.

In something that comic book fans will surely appreciate, Cavill said he dove into the source material, reading Superman comics, including Red Son, the alternate universe where Superman grows up in Russia instead of the U.S.

Oh, yes, I’ve done my research. I stocked up on source material and buried my head in it for a while . . . I really liked Death of Superman and Return of Superman, those are my favorite ones, and The New 52 is great stuff and Earth One, although I know people think that is a mixed bag. With Red Son, I thought it was interesting as a different perspective. It was out there and I like that. It was essential to my character research, too. When you’ve got two polar opposite viewpoints of the same character, you will see what the authors consider the important baseline trend. I got to see that and see the different ways he would have developed and that was very useful to me. And because we are retelling the story and we are doing our own reinvention and a modernization for the screen, I get the opportunity to add my own interpretation of how he developed. So that was cool to look at Red Son and see what changed, what didn’t change and what that reveals about the baseline of Superman. You can find what is essential to Superman and what is nature vs. nurture by locating that baseline.

Man of Steel was written by David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight) from a story he conceived with Nolan and is being directed by Zack Snyder. Amy Adams (Lois Lane); Kevin Costner and Diane Lane (Superman's adoptive parents), Laurence Fishburne (Perry White), Russell Crowe and Ayelet Zurer (Superman's Kryptonian parents) also star.

Next Showing:Man of Steel opens June 14, 2013

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Henry Cavill - 'Man of Steel' (Superman) Interview, Daily Record

New Superman Henry Cavill reveals his delight at landing role in Man of Steel

Nov 10 2011 - Rick Fulton Daily Record

HE WAS labelled "the unluckiest man in Hollywood" but Henry Cavill has bounced back. In fact, his career is set to take off in one of cinema's most iconic roles - Superman.

The Channel Islander, 28, is filming Man of Steel - but it's taken him almost a decade of knockbacks to land his first starring role in a blockbuster.

He was due to play the superhero in director McG's 2004 film Superman: Flyby but McG pulled out of the project and Bryan Singer took over, recasting Brandon Routh in 2006's Superman Returns.

Fans wanted Cavill to play Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but the role went to Robert Pattinson.

Twilight series writer Stephenie Meyer also called Cavill the "perfect Edward". However, by the time production of the first film began, he was too old and, again, the role went to Pattinson.

The star was also on the final list to play James Bond in Casino Royale only for Daniel Craig to get the part.

Despite reports, he didn't audition for Batman in Batman Begins.

However, in December 2005, Empire magazine dubbed Cavill the "unluckiest man in Hollywood" for his near-misses.

Although he's turned it around big time, the critics who once felt sorry for him now have the knives out, saying a Brit shouldn't be playing the all-American Clark Kent and his stars and stripes hero alter-ego.

But Cavill is unfazed.

He said: "If we were really true to the story, I would be an invulnerable alien. But I'm not, I'm an actor. Superman is an American icon. Whether it's an American role or not, I can't be sure.

"Superman stands for something very universal. He was certainly raised in America but he himself is not necessarily an American, because he's come from a place very far away.

"He is very different and therefore all the more beautiful when he tries to do so much for all of us, who are totally different from him."

It's a good body swerve from the flak and Cavill hopes the film will silence any doubters when it's released in 2013.

There are certainly grumbles already. Early photos had his Superman without the iconic red shorts, although other shots had him wearing them.

And it seems he also doesn't have the famous kiss curl.

Perhaps Americans are touchy because, as Superman, Cavill becomes the third British actor to play the lead role of a comic book superhero. Once again, Christian Bale is Batman and Andrew Garfield is the new Spider-Man.

He also becomes the first non-American to play Superman.

The first on television in 1948 was Kirk Alyn. George Reeves became the first in film, but Christopher Reeve in the 70s and 80s was the most popular in four movies.

In the 90s, Dean Cain took Superman back onto TV and, more recently, Tom Welling in Smallville played him as a young man.

And then Superman Returns. Routh thought he'd hit paydirt in a reboot of the franchise but he only made the one film.

Now, finally, Cavill has the role he Returns thought he had back in 2004.

And he admitted that when he was told, he was very un-Supermanlike in his reaction.

He laughed: "As soon as I hung up, I was leaping up and down and running up and down the stairs and roaring and shouting, and then trying to call everyone but no one was answering their phones. My smile was absolutely enormous."

Although he admits to dressing up as Superman when he was young, as did his brothers and his nephews, Cavill didn't go back over the old films and telly shows.

He admitted: "I didn't want them to influence my interpretation and my performance of the character.

"Where the character truly belongs and where the character truly comes from is not from the movies or the TV shows; it's from the comic books.

"So I went straight to the comic books and had stacks of them. I just read and read and read and read and read.

"I enjoyed so much learning about the character in such a dense manner. The comic books were my source of material; the TV shows and movies were someone else's interpretation."

It's a while before Man of Steel is released so, until then, he's showing off the body that will make the ladies drool in the new Greek mythology epic Immortals, which is released tomorrow. He plays Theseus, a mortal who joins forces with the gods to defeat the Titan Hyperion, played by Mickey Rourke.

Cavill won that role while still working on The Tudors, from 2007 to 2010, in which he played Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

He took the Immortals role, his first Hollywood movie, very seriously, doing push-ups to keep his body in tip-top shape during any time when he wasn't shooting.

For Superman, he's gone even further, knowing tight lycra is unforgiving and using the same trainer who got Gerard Butler in the shape of his life for Leonidas in 300.

He said: "When you're knackered and you're drained and you just don't want to go on any more, you're still doing it. On Immortals, it was very much a body weight sort of training regime, and now on Superman, it's more than body weight, as in lifting weights."

No doubt Cavill will become the next Hollywood action pin-up but he claims he's not thinking about that.

He said: "I'm playing a role, I'm in the role and hopefully whatever messages people will take are their own. People will interpret it however they want.

"I'm certainly not worried about being objectified."

When Cavill, who is engaged to showjumper Ellen Whitaker, was growing up in Jersey, he wished he could have been Superman and flown off the island.

He said: "It is a very small island - nine miles by five - and when I was 13, I was very eager to get off the island and go to boarding school.

"As much as I was very homesick, as soon as I left home, I was keen to get away. It's a beautiful place, absolutely stunning, and a wonderful place to visit. But growing up there, it's very small. I will always have a base there, because Jersey is a wonderful place.

"I think I'll probably raise my kids there one day, we'll see."

Immortals is out tomorrow

Man of Steel is scheduled for 2013.

HENRY CAVILL - Which Superman Costume Best? (No contest)

Which Superman Costume Best Befits the Man of Steel?

Today 8:00 AM PDT by Peter Gicas

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With all the talk lately about the newest Superman costume being worn by Henry Cavill in the upcoming Man of Steel, it's only natural to compare the outfit to two of the more iconic images we have of Krypton's sole survivor.
We're referring, of course, to George Reeves and Christopher Reeve, who both had respective turns wearing tights.  But the question is, which one had (or, in Cavill's case, has) the best look?

When it comes to Reeves, who portrayed Mr. Truth, Justice and the American Way on TV's Adventures of Superman in the 1950s, it's probably safe to say that viewers weren't that critical as far as how close the costume resembled the one seen in the comics.

After all, the show initially aired in black and white, so Reeves could have been flying around in hot pink and nobody would have known the difference. Of course, when the program eventually did move to color, it was revealed that the right red, yellow and blue hues were properly being used.
Meanwhile, in 1978, Reeve took over the role in the first of four Superman movies that he would go on to do. Here, too, we see that the costume stayed true to how we envisioned our hero.
But what makes it so memorable is knowing that Reeve famously refused to simply wear padding under the suit and opted instead to undergo an intense workout regimen to add 30 pounds of muscle to his frame. So, right there, he, and his costume, scores some serious points.
As for Cavill, in all fairness, it is a little too early to tell exactly how his look is going to completely pan out until we actually get closer to the Man of Steel 's June 2013 release date.
However, preliminary images that recently surfaced have given us a glimpse of what we can pretty much expect. Gone are the vibrant colors of yesteryear, which clearly reflects DC Comics' upcoming relaunch of the Superman series.

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So, when it comes to Supes' suit, what's your fave? Obviously, feel free to give a shout-out in the comments to Dean Cain, Tom Welling (what we see of his, at least) or Brandon Routh as well. Oh, and Nicolas Cage. OK, maybe not.

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