Brandon Routh on Superman: Man of Steel

It's not quite leaping tall buildings in a single bound, but actor Brandon Routh is able to give multiple interviews in single week.

The Superman Returns star provided As to ComingSoon's Qs regarding several films he's finished and a few upcoming projects, including super-sequel, Man of Steel.

When, man?! "I expect that we'll be working early next year. I know that Bryan [Singer] has pretty much finished out Valkyrie and is back in the states and is zeroing in on the story he wants to tell.  Once that arrives it's going to move pretty quickly."  Great!  Do it!

Routh had a healthy amount of suggestions for the direction of the sequel when prompted:

"Well, I think that something that audiences are looking for – and I certainly am, too – is for Superman to actually be able to lay a punch on someone or something. I was filming and I thought, 'I haven't really hit anything. I feel like I'm going to need to let some of this anger out.' So I'm happy that I think that's going to be a central part of the sequel, getting a good villain that we can actually have physical altercations with. Certainly also, I'd like more humor from Clark or just more of Clark and Jimmy. A little bit more of Lois and Clark, how we used to see them, a bit more of buddies. Perhaps things will be smoothed over with Superman and Lois and she can afford to be a little bit nicer to Clark. I think that's something that people want to see and those are some of the great moments from previous Superman films. Also, Superman and Lois getting together, that's always my end goal. I want that to happen. The romantic in me wants that to happen eventually whether they're finally together in this movie or in whatever future films there might be. I kind of want to see that happen."

Giving Superman someone he can let loose on is definitely something we all want to see.  But that requires a durable enemy… Parasite? Metallo maybe?  I would avoid using Doomsday as he is slightly one-note and also joining the cast of Smallville.  Zod or some other evil Kryptonian again?  We'll be sure to let you all know as soon as the decision is made.  And naturally the more little character moments that make it on-screen the better.

And on the insistent idea of a Batman/Superman team-up movie, Routh seems to lean towards the approach Marvel Comics adopted for making shared-universe films:  "I'm happy that we're talking about Man of Steel again and Batman looks great… I think it's time for those two characters, certainly, to flourish and some of the DC Comic Universe to strike out on their own first and strengthen each character individually and then to go at all of them together."

Bravo, Mr. Routh, you obviously have some comic fanness in you and these interviews reveal your love for and commitment to the role of Superman.