Brandon Routh could still be the last son of Krypton?

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

For all the many, many problems I had with SUPERMAN RETURNS, barely any of them involved Brandon Routh or his performance as the last son of Krypton. I thought he was damn solid, in fact quite brilliant as Clark Kent, if a little too washed out to be Superman. I would give his Clark Kent a solid A but his Superman just a B... though I would love to see the young actor have another crack at it. Even though Warner Bros. are in the reboot mode for one of their most famous characters, the studio might yet hang their hopes on Routh one more time. Speaking to Latino Review, DC head chief Paul Levitz revealed Routh has held talks with them over their new direction...

Last week Brandon Routh has come around the offices in New York and Los Angeles as of late to talk about Superman and what we want to do

That new reboot was announced a few weeks ago, with WB actively encouraging writers to pitch their ideas for a new direction, the most vocal being Mark Millar... the comic book writer who wrote the comics WANTED and next year's KICK-ASS are based on. It would certainly be easier for Warner Bros. to cast Routh rather than having the mammoth task once again of finding a new actor to play their favourite role. Though at the end of the day, how will they be able to convince us it's a reboot when it's the same old face on our screens? Does the same go for Kate Bosworth as Louis Lane or Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, are they coming back too? It's one thing rebooting Bond, Batman, Hulk when it's new actors... but it's rather hard to do it with the same old face. As much as I like Routh... if your gonna reboot it, you might as well go the whole haul.