Whilst I’m not quite managing to watch a film a week (my wife has been ill with, of all things, Kennel Cough – caught from one of our dog’s inoculations!), I have managed to finish watching Superman (2025) – you know the one with Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern/Guy Gardner, Alan Tudyk as Four/Gary, Bradley Cooper as Jor-El, Pom Klementieff as Five, and Sean Gunn as Maxwell Lord: surprisingly it was directed by James Gunn who did Guardians of the Galaxy. I wonder if he has any favourite actors… Oh, it also has David Corenswet as Superman and Nicholas Hoult as Luther.
Casting wise – I think they’ve got Jimmy Olson (Skyler Gisondo) spot on: Lex Luthor (played by 36 year old Nicholas Hoult) is too young and doesn’t quite have the gravitas for Luthor – he’s got the “Modern Doctor Who Master” villain issue of “make him over-excited/manic”: I can’t see how Luthor would have acquired all the funds and technology necessary with that sort of attitude (and age: even if he inherited a large portion). David Corenswet as Superman is okay – they’ve definitely gone for the Christopher Reeves look and feel for him (hair curl, shorts and even the classic theme) and Maria Gabriela de Faria as “The Engineer” (a nano-tech metahuman) has got the semi-mechnanicalish movement, but didn’t quite have the acting ability.