2016 Movie News Archives

April 29, 2016: Brandon Routh Reflects on "Superman Returns" Ten Years On

Superman Returns Believe it or not, it's been 10 years since "Superman Returns" was released on the big screen in 2006. EmpireOnline.com caught up with Superman himself, Brandon Routh, to ask him about the movie 10 years on...

    "That will be a book someday, when I fully realize that whole experience," smiles Routh, currently starring as Ray Palmer/The Atom in the TV series DC's Legends Of Tomorrow, "but I think just the lack of knowing what was going on for so long was definitely a challenge, because I felt the need to uphold an image. No one asked me to uphold one, but that's how much I cared about the character. I felt certain things might be off-limits, certain roles. At least for the first couple of years when I thought we'd be coming back. As it got further away, that became less and less of an issue."

    Routh expresses that he really likes the movie. While acknowledging that Superman should have thrown a few more punches and that he would have preferred more practical flying effects than CG, those are not areas where he was able to have any influence. "Those are," he says, "small, personal things. But I think it was a very nice movie; it may not have been the Superman movie everyone wanted and I completely understand that - it's hard to please everybody - but I'm very proud of it still. And proud of Bryan and everyone who worked so hard to make it."

Read the complete article at the Empire Online website, which also includes comments by director Bryan Singer.



2016 Movie News

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