A brand new photograph has surfaced on-line that includes actor Josh Hartnett dressed up as Superman for a wardrobe take a look at for Brett Ratner‘s scrapped Superman movie undertaking Superman: Flyby. This is the undertaking that J.J. Abrams wrote the script for.
The costume exhibits us that this model of the Man of Steel would’ve sported a pink Superman brand towards a black background somewhat than yellow. This model of the emblem was most notably used within the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons. As you’ll be able to see, the “S” doesn’t actually pop.
Several actors had been thought of for this position at the moment together with Henry Cavill and Brandon Routh. Hartnett was initially provided the half, however in the end turned it down. Matthew Bomer was then employed for the position, however after that the undertaking fell aside.
Hartnett talked about turning the undertaking down saying: “Spider-Man was something we talked about. Batman was another one. But I somehow knew those roles had the potential to define me, and I didn’t want that. I didn’t want to be labeled as Superman for the rest of my career. I was maybe 22, but I saw the danger.”
Superman: Flyby was “an origin story that included Krypton besieged by a civil war between Jor-El and his corrupt brother, Kata-Zor. Before Kata-Zor sentences Jor-El to prison, Kal-El is launched to Earth to fulfill a prophecy. Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent, he forms a romance with Lois Lane in the Daily Planet. However, Lois is more concerned with exposing Lex Luthor, written as a government agent obsessed with UFO phenomena. Clark reveals himself to the world as Superman, bringing Kata-Zor’s son, Ty-Zor, and three other Kryptonians to Earth. Superman is defeated and killed, and visits Jor-El (who committed suicide on Krypton while in prison) in Kryptonian heaven. Resurrected, he returns to Earth and defeats the four Kryptonians, while the script ends with Superman off to Krypton, leaving a cliffhanger for a sequel.”
Robert Downey Jr. was set to play Lex Luthor within the movie and Shia LaBeouf was going to play Jimmy Olsen. Scarlett Johansson and Selma Blair had been up for the position of Lois Lane, and Christopher Walken was in talks to play Perry White, and Joel Edgerton was up for the half of Ty-Zor. Paul Walker was additionally up for a job within the film.
Abrams wrote Superman: Flyby in 2002. At the time he was finest identified for his work on the TV collection Felicity. He talked about his imaginative and prescient for the movie saying: “The thing that I tried to emphasize in the story was that if the Kents found this boy, Kal-El, who had the power that he did, he would have most likely killed them both in short order. And the idea that these parents would see – if they were lucky to survive long enough – that they had to immediately begin teaching this kid to limit himself and to not be so fast, not be so strong, not be so powerful. The result of that, psychologically, would be fear of oneself, self-doubt and being ashamed of what you were capable of. Extrapolating that to adulthood became a fascinating psychological profile of someone who was not pretending to be Clark Kent, but who was Clark Kent. Who had become that kind of a character who is not able or willing to accept who he was and what his destiny was.”
The photograph comes from Ryan Unicomb, who apparently has a knack for locating stuff like this from unmade or unreleased movie productions.
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