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Amy Adams Cast as Lois Lane in Superman Reboot

This is about as good of a decision as director Zack Snyder could make in an era where we cannot yet clone Margot Kidder, who represented one of the all-time great casting choices in film history. Amy Adams conveys strength and intelligence, but most of all she’s a woman and not a girl. This also telegraphs that the character of Superman (who will be played by 27 year-old Henry Cavill) will be portrayed as SuperMAN and not a SuperBroodingMetrosexual as we saw in the dreadful “Superman Returns.”

I don’t know anything about her background, but at least Amy Adams looks like might have at one time not lived in the San Fernando Valley and experienced some life outside of a mall. She can also convey Lois Lane’s spunk without completely getting on my nerves. All in all, a very promising casting choice. Most of all, though, the choice shows the director’s confidence in his lead actor to hold his own. Adams is a star in her own right with real charisma.

Superman’s going to have his hands full.

The Los Angeles Times:

The 36-year-old star got the news on Sunday from director Zack Snyder, who phoned her from Paris, where he was promoting his just-opened film, “Sucker Punch.” There had been a crush of Hollywood interest in the lead female role in the Warner Bros. project but Snyder said that after meeting with Adams, she was the clear choice to take on a character that dates back to 1938 and has long represented the strong, professional woman who can hold her own against any man – even if he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.



“There was a big, giant search for Lois,” Snyder said. “For us it was a big thing and obviously a really important role. We did a lot of auditioning


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