There’s been a number of articles all over the web carrying the new Superman image, Brandon Routh standing all square jawed like and trying to look cool and imposing. Didn’t do it for me I’m afraid. He looks meek, mild and quiet, not that strong, not that super, just a regular guy in a silly costume.
Have yourself a look at the full size image direct from Coming Soon, thanks to Chris Rushworth for that, be warned though, it’s 1.5 Mb.
See, doesn’t do it for me. Yeah you can argue about all the super powers you want, but he doesn’t look like Superman, he doesn’t have the build. He’s just not imposing or carries the right amount of gravitas.
Vic from Screen Rant makes an excellent point comparing Batman to Superman, and how beefed up Christian Bale is compared to Routh. Sure, he’s playing a human character that would need to, but Routh could’ve done a little bit to look more the part, surely?
Interestingly Jorge Chapa has done something cool at his site, where he’s made some minor changes to the costume to make it look more the part for him. Works better, I admit, but he needs more beef.
Still, as Vic says, it worked with Spidey, maybe it could work here. Yet Spidey was never as muscular as all that, and Maguire beefed up for the role too.
What do you think, does he look the part? Are we all hanging on too much to the old Superman, and what about Bale for Batman, does he look good or what?
I think the suit looks fine. Besides change is good. You have to compair a lot of things. First: Superman is supposed to look like a man, not the steroid case that comics often attribute to superheros. Don’t get me wrong, the comics are always cool. Also look at Christopher Reeves, he wasn’t huge like Christian Bale. Thanks to Joel schumacher’s suck fests I’m sure it wasn’t all that hard to reinvent the Dark Knight.
I also think the colors are fine. Look at it this way: They could have gone with that god awful electrical superman crap. Thank god for small miracles. If people go into a movie thinking it’s gonna suck, it’s gonna suck no matter what. I’m just hoping people go to the movie to enjoy it.
Bryan Singer has turned the Superman Legacy into a flamboyant homosexual returning from space, (by the way, what is he returning from Krypton is already destroyed). Lois has a kid? That completely refutes that last 70 years of the Superman Heritage. This superman film was rushed, bad casting, and a bad script. The franchise may be gone after this film, unlike Batman, you cannot keep reinventing the worlds first superhero. That’s what makes him classic.
I know its a silly question but why does he wear a belt? I don’t wear tights but it would seem to me they would not require a belt but I know its silly to question a costume with a cape.
I think we ALL agree.. the costume really sucks!!! Why did singer have to go changing the colors so drastically? He does end up looking like Bizzaro or the clone from Superman 3. I hate it!!! The only thing that may save the movie for me is the special effects!!!
The changes Jorge made on his website make the costume a great deal better, Singer should have hired him before filming.
This sums it up nicely…
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/uploads/JohnStaton/2005-10-01_152935_supermen2lr6qb.png
As always these days Hollywood have to fiddle thinking they know whats best!
i dont like the costume its ugly i rather see his DICK!!!
Who needs a suit just take it all off!!!;)
Listen i’m sure evryone can agree with me in saying we all should email singer or email anyone that knows singer and explain that the “S” shield is too small.I mean this is a big thing,its superman for crap sake.In all seriousness if u want this m ovie to be a legend of a movie lets all get together and make this happen.It will only work if he notices that true fans such as ourselves are concerned about these kind of things.
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I LOVE U SUPERMAN !
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Brandon Routh looks horrible in that suit!!! I can’t even look at it!!!Just give Brandon Routh the old Chris Reeves’ suit with the new S shield design but bigger like Reeves’!!! Everything from the boots up!!! Also, Brandon’s legs and calves are ugly big!!! Have them trimmed those down! It makes him look short!!! Please!!! For the love of God!!!
SUPERMAN is supposed to be 6’3″ tall and 225-230 lbs. Christopher Reeve was as close to perfect as we’ll probably EVER get. His build was like an inverted pyramid. Routh appears to be too slender between the shoulders, chest and rib cage areas. His face looks good though. The costume should adhere to the original. The waist of the trunks is too low and the insignia on the belt is redundant. I hope the storyline isn’t as inconsistant as the details listed above.
Superman looks really, really gay in that picture. Like he’s going to save the world from heterosexuals.
The sheild on TOP of the costume is nice looking, but should be a little bigger.
The costume itself has more a mesh like design, akin to the spiderman mash pattern. The seem to have taken cues from that costume.
The boots look too short / small.
Brandon Routh actually looks just like christopher reeve in terms of height and muscle build, but the face reminds me excactly of TOM WELLING from Smallville! Why didn’t they just use Tom Welling, who is JUST as diesel (if not MORE so!) and looks a hell of a lot nicer looking than Brandon Routh?
Jesus H. Christ.
on opening day i’ll be wearing my super-man t-shirt and puffing my chest out like i’m the cock of the walk. =D
LOL
I AGREE WITH RICKY. THE RED AND YELLOW ARE TOO DARK AND HIS TRUNKS LOOK TOO MUCH LIKE SPEEDOS. I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD LEAVE THE ORIGINAL COSTUME ALONE. ALTHOUGH THE “S” INSIGNIA ON THE BELT IS A NICE ADDITION.
THE SUITS GONNA TAKE ALOT OF GETTING USE TO, BY THE TIME THE FILM’S COME OUT I SHOULD HAVE EXCEPTED IT, I AINT GONNA COMPLAIN TOO MUCH COZ I’M JUST THANKFUL A NEW SUPERMAN FILMS COMING OUT BUT I GOTTA AGREE WITH SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS THE SUIT IS TO DARK IT’S COLOURS LOOK LIKE BIZARRO’S SUIT AND THE EVIL SUPERMANS FROM FILM 3. THE WHOLE POINT OF HIS BRIGHT COLOURS WAS FOR RESPECT FOR HIS HERITAGE BUT TO ALSO MAKE HIM STAND OUT, AT THE MOMENT I WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO NOTICE HIM BEHIND A GREY CLOUD.
i love superman…superman rules… i’m excited to see the returns
I like Jorge’s edits, but it’s obvious when looking at the picture that the entire color cast is off, not just the suit.
i still have faith in bryan singer, as he has a proven knack for directing superheroes and made black leather in. i mean this movie can’t be any worse than catwoman or elektra lol.
regarding the superman suit, i believe they should follow spider-man and use a muscle suit, spray paint the outside for muscle tone as well. but they shouldn’t make him big to the point of being unrealistic.
and you know something’s wrong when a mere mortal like hannibal king (from blade trinity) is more muscular than the new superman lol.
ps. what does everyone think of kate bosworth as lois lane?
Being from Brussels, Belgium, I live a few miles from the man who made the Spider-Man suit (Stijn Helsen) and Shadopup is right. He made a muscular-suit for Tobey to wear under his Spiderman suit. But because Brandon is bigger than Tobey, I am not sure if it would work. Superman is not a bodybuilder, but a heavy set man with super-strenght. Brandon is right for the part. But the colour of the suit!!! What happed with the red. It looks practically grey. …or wil he gain his red colours as the story develops. Mind you that in Superman 3, the evil Superman-clone had almost the same dark red colours than Brandon on the picture.
Following on from Al’s comment, make the cape really BRIGHT RED! That’s it! I dont have a problem with the man wearing the suit, he looks yum. :-)
Concerning the comparison to Spider-man. Tobey and all the stuntmen wore a “muscle suit” under the costume itself to make Spidey appear to have more muscle definition. This is because they realized that…
Tights don’t show muscle definition very well. It’s not like in the comics where the artist just draws everybody naked but then colors them after. Unfortunately wearing tights in the real world does not make you look like those muscular superheroes in the comics wearing a cup.
I guess you’d have to be like Arnold buff back in his T2 days for anything to show through the tights and even then it would look a bit cheesy like this pic of Supes.
Looking at the full size pic I realized that it looks really good. Watching the movie in theaters is going to be great but watching it on your TV is going to suck.
The red on the cape looks too pale.
LOL @ Donna. You want them naked right away? We have to prove first that we deserve it girl! *laughs*
The Batman suit though makes it look as if he is more a Michelin Man that Batman, but after seeing an all-beefed up Bale, I wasnt surprised why! *drools*
Simone: Boys, boys! *winks* Would you rather wear the Batman or the Superman costume?
I say none! I want a naked Batman and Superman! ;)
Maybe they aren’t all that in where it is important.
Donna A.
Batman :)
Boys, boys! *winks* Would you rather wear the Batman or the Superman costume?
Is it me, or does it seem that they have left his costume too long in the washing machine. It looks too tight and too desaturated, and make his legs look fat! Pfiewww there is a lot of work to do on this kid. Maybe they should cancel everything and just go see Batman Begins.
As Richard said and I posted at my site, I think Routh looks like Clark Kent wearing spandex. I like what Jorge Chapa did with the costume… the bigger shield makes a really big difference. One other thing I would have done would be to make the boots come up higher on his calves.
Vic
I usually like to find positive things about everything, but that is just crap, looks so cheap,and stupid.. I know there’s a sort of homage to C.Reeves but come on.. there’s been advances in quality and costume design, how about some of that gets used here eH?… ( I agree Simmons Batman Begins is gonna be WAY better)
I would agree with how ‘buff’ he actually looks…but we don’t know when the shots were taken! They could have been taken awhile ago and he could have already buffed up.
Don’t forget, Christopher Reeve, kept on working out so much during Superman, they had to reshoot the early scenes because he got so much more buff.
Im hoping thats the case here!
He looks okay. I never really got into Superman. I was always a Spiderman type of gal.
Donna A.
I suppose he looks fine, however I’m still looking foward to Batman Begins a lot more.