Within the early 2000s Warner Bros. employed J.J. Abrams to put in writing a Superman film. That film was going to be referred to as Superman: Flyby and each younger actor in Hollywood had been auditioning for the lead function, together with Brendan Fraser.
In some unspecified time in the future within the multiverse, a model of this film obtained made with Fraser within the function of the Man of Metal. However, this can be a movie that we’ll sadly by no means see. Fraser by no means landed the function and the film by no means obtained made. When reflecting on that point that he was up for the function and the way he was up in opposition to the likes of Paul Walker. Fraser mentioned:
“Everyone in town was reading for Superman. Like, again, we’re testing I think six or seven guys in 2002/2003. Paul Walker, I remember Paul Walker was before me. They were like the usual suspects.”
Whereas a visitor on The Howard Stern Show, Fraser mentioned he realized that touchdown the function of Superman could be “a life-changing amazing opportunity,” he additionally defined that he “had to reconcile with, ‘Okay, say you do get the job to be the Man of Steel, it’s gonna be chipped on your gravestone, are you okay with that? I mean, forever more known as the Man of Steel.’” He added:
“There was a sort of Faustian bargain that went into it. I think inherently, I didn’t want to be known for only one thing because I prided myself on diversity my whole professional life and I’m not a one-trick pony.”
Regardless, Fraser was disillusioned that he missed out on the chance:
“I felt disappointed that there was an amazing opportunity and it didn’t come to fruition. It had to do a lot with some shenanigans and studio politics. And probably, inherently, in my screen test. I think that’s why you test… they could kind of see I was only there like 98%.”
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.”
When previously talking concerning the particulars of the story Abrams mentioned:
“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 idea in the movie was that he became Superman because he realized he had to finally own his strength and what he’d always been.”
Warner Bros. and Abrams had been growing Superman: Flyby round 2002. When the undertaking obtained shelved, the studio ended up shifting ahead with a unique tackle the Man of Metal, and that was Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, which forged Brandon Routh because the superhero.
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