King Krytpon wrote:So I guess you would be in the "Errol Flynn should only be in a Superman movie if he's the one playing Superman" camp. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I concede that he could have been a great Superman. It's just that I think Tyrone Power's an even better choice.
I'm in a variant camp: Flynn should not be in a Superman movie at all. Flynn's all wrong for Superman; it takes more than good looks, broad shoulders and athleticism. There's a spark to Flynn, a hint of the rogue, a quickness of tongue as well as hand. In short, he's a wiseguy. Even in his most straight-laced roles, he never becomes the goody-goody hero totally, and I think his personality is more suited to playing, maybe, Green Arrow (no big surprise there).
Superman should always be played by an American. In the course of this discussion, I just realized another perfect candidate, a wonderful dramatic actor who also was a professional acrobat and first-rate swashbuckler: Burt Lancaster! The more I think about it the more I like it.
Yeah, Burt Lancaster as Superman. Cool.
I would argue against it because the Clark/Supes fight looked awkward to me in Superman III. Having the same guy do a "twins"-like fight scene doesn't come off right in live-action, at least to me. (It's one of those things that animation does better.) And Bizarro's deformity would allow you to get away with casting another actor, and you wouldn't have to rely on split-screen or any other tricks to get the two characters in the same frame. You'd have them bashing each other in-camera, which I think would look better. Especially if, like in Justice #4, Bizarro's not the only one attacking Superman at one time.
Well, I'm the wrong one to ask as I'm in no way a Bizarro fan. He's good for the occasional comic relief, but he was never 100% "villain" in my book, and rarely handled well by any writer, other than Seigel's stuff in the "Bizarro Tales" back-ups. Any "dream movie" of mine would by definition have to exclude Bizarro.
As for Batman...Gene Kelly. The look, the athleticism, the dancer's grace and fluidity, his ability to wear colorful tights and not look stupid, and his energy in the action films he did make clinches it for me. Remind me to post up my Batman and JLA casts some time....
That's an interesting choice. At least he beats the one Bob Kane always suggested, which was Robert Wagner. Hard to imagine what he was thinking there; Wagner always had a baby face, plus he doesn't seem limber enough to play Batman somehow.
I'd have to go with maybe a really young Randolph Scott. Or for the dream "Dark Knight Returns" movie, Robert Mitchum.
Maybe somewhere in the Multiverse is an alternate Earth where George Reeves won the Oscar and a frustrated actor named Burt Lancaster opened malls in the red-and-blue tights to make ends meet after years of playing Superman on TV. :shock: