21 Perfect Superhero Movie Casting Choices That Nailed Their Characters

8. Christopher Reeve As Superman

Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Genre-defining, iconic, and faithful to its core, Richard Donner's original Superman films have managed to attain a seat amongst the upper echelons of pop-culture's most favourably remembered classics - a debt largely owed to the late Christopher Reeve and his portrayal of Clark Kent.

Mild-mannered as the Daily Planet reporter, yet charming and confident as the Man of Steel, Reeve managed to conjure up a loveable image of the world's most famous superhero over the course of four (mixed) films. They may all have varied in quality, but the late actor's performance was always faithful to the comics.

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