Superman news: Amy Adams will be Lois
Lane
This just in — three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adamswill play
journalist Lois Lane in Hollywood’s revival of Superman.
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 but we had this meeting
with Amy Adams and after that I just felt she was perfect for
it.”
Snyder declined to discuss the precise prominence of Lois in the
story or any plot details about the film but he said the role is “a
linchpin” to the project and that he considers it essential that
Lois — a Roosevelt-era creation – arrives on screen in 2012 with
contemporary appeal and spirit.
“It goes back to what I’ve said about Superman and making
him really understandable for today. What’s important to us is
making him relevant and real and making him empathetic to today’s
audience so that we understand the decisions he makes. That applies
to Lois as well. She has to be in the same universe as him [in tone
and substance].”
Adams has shown an affinity for finding the plucky but
pitch-perfect center of old-school roles; in the cartoonish ”Night
at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” she brought a surprising
amount of yearning emotion to the role of a simplified Amelia
Earhart and she won rave reviews for the role of Giselle in
“Enchanted” and it’s sly send-up of Disney princess traditions that
date back to “Snow White,” which premiered just six months before
Lois Lane hit newsstands in
the pages of Action
Comics No. 1.
Adams is coming off an Academy Award nomination for her work in
”The Fighter,” the David O. Russell that took her into far darker
territory; she played a bartender named Charlene who is a
fire-tested and fierce in her love for a down-but-not-out boxer
portrayed by Mark Whalburg. The film earned an Oscar win for
Christian Bale, who played Whalburg’s deliriously drugged-out
brother, and he will be in the
other big superhero film of
2012, “The Dark Knight Rises,” which will see Bale back in the cowl
of Batman.
The big breakthrough for Adams was “Junebug,” which premiered at
the 2005
Sundance Film Festival,
where Adams won a special jury prize for her performance. The
star’s other notable credits include ”Julie & Julia,” “Sunshine
Cleaning,” “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
In the still-untitled Superman film,
Henry Cavill will play
Clark Kent and the Man of
Steel. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane are
set to play the Kents, the
adoptive parents of the last son of Krypton.
– Geoff Boucher
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