ACTOR Brendan Fraser has told how he was offered the role of Superman in an earlier movie project - which he says was far superior to Bryan Singer's 2006 film. The star - who has appeared in The Mummy film series, George of The Jungle and Journey to the Centre of the Earth - said it had been "awesome" to wear the iconic costume for the Superman: Flyby film being developed between 2002 and 2004 from a screenplay by 'Lost' co-creator and executive producer J.J. Abrams. I've attempted to recreate how the actor might have looked in a quick Photoshop image manipulation pictured here. Fraser, 39, said: "They offered it to me! I was so enthusiastic to do it, my teeth were sweating. This is the Man of Steel and it seems to me that each actor that played that role came from relative obscurity, doing radio plays or soap operas, and THAT role (Superman) became who they were identified with for the rest of their days. And that's a big decision to have to make for an actor. "And so I had to think about it hard. And during the time that I was thinking about it, which took me all of 28 minutes, it seems as if then the big monster studio machine and all the machinations behind it, all the cogs and wheels rolling, suddenly it went from an 'offer' to 'subject to a screen test' blah, blah, blah, 'subject to approval'... Speaking in a video interview at VoicesFromKrypton , which is partially transcribed over at ComicBookMovie , Fraser said: "There are on ...
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ACTOR Brendan Fraser has told how he was offered the role of Superman in an earlier movie project - which he says was far superior to Bryan Singer's 2006 film. The star - who has appeared in The Mummy film series, George of The Jungle and Journey to the Centre of the Earth - said it had been "awesome" to wear the iconic costume for the Superman: Flyby film being developed between 2002 and 2004 from a screenplay by 'Lost' co-creator and executive producer J.J. Abrams. I've attempted to recreate how the actor might have looked in a quick Photoshop image manipulation pictured here. Fraser, 39, said: "They offered it to me! I was so enthusiastic to do it, my teeth were sweating. This is the Man of Steel and it seems to me that each actor that played that role came from relative obscurity, doing radio plays or soap operas, and THAT role (Superman) became who they were identified with for the rest of their days. And that's a big decision to have to make for an actor. "And so I had to think about it hard. And during the time that I was thinking about it, which took me all of 28 minutes, it seems as if then the big monster studio machine and all the machinations behind it, all the cogs and wheels rolling, suddenly it went from an 'offer' to 'subject to a screen test' blah, blah, blah, 'subject to approval'... Speaking in a video interview at VoicesFromKrypton , which is partially transcribed over at ComicBookMovie , Fraser said: "There are on ...