{"id":148141,"date":"2025-11-23T04:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/148141\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:27:07","slug":"brendan-fraser-recalls-screen-test-for-j-j-abrams-superman-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/148141\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser Recalls Screen Test For J.J. Abrams’ Superman Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFresh off of the success of The Mummy franchise, Brendan Fraser<\/a> was once in consideration for a Superman<\/a> adaptation from J.J. Abrams<\/a> and produced by Brett Ratner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRecalling the experience of screen-testing for the would-be flick that never came to pass (Warner Bros. ultimately settled on Bryan Singer\u2019s version, the 2006 Superman Returns), the Rental Family actor said that while he connected with the script, he wasn\u2019t sure he was prepared to tackle such a blockbuster role, which was likely to have come with a lengthy time commitment and weighty legacy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI loved that screenplay,\u201d he told Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a>. \u201cThey let me read it. They locked me in an empty office in some studio lot, I signed an NDA. It was printed black on crimson paper, so you couldn\u2019t photocopy it or sneak it out the door inconspicuously. I mean, it was Shakespeare in space. It was a really good screenplay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNoting that the project was shrouded in secrecy and taking a photo of himself in the \u201cbig guy suit\u201d was \u201canathema,\u201d the Academy Award winner reflected on what it would mean to be forever associated with the Man of Steel. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou feel a little certain anxiety anyway when you\u2019re going up on some big job,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I also remember thinking: \u2018If I do get this job, then, well, I think Superman\u2019s gonna be chipped on my gravestone.\u2019 There\u2019s an element of, you are that for the rest of your days, your career. And that\u2019s not a bad thing; I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s gonna kill me any time soon, but it is something that becomes part of your entire brand, who you are. And I don\u2019t know if I was ready to take that on then. I mean, I felt I was because [it was a] big opportunity, and excitement, et cetera, et cetera.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimately, however, Fraser characterized the experience with the words filmmaker Terry George shared with him on the set of 2012\u2019s Whole Lotta Sole: \u201cWhat\u2019s not for you will pass you by.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat said, on the development side of things, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn made it known last year that despite his own iteration of Superman, the rousing box office hit starring David Corenswet as the righteous Kryptonian, Abrams\u2019 version was still in progress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2021, it was\u00a0reported that Abrams was producing a Superman reboot<\/a>\u00a0with Ta-Nehisi Coates attached as a writer. No plot for the film was revealed, but this Kal-El would exist in an alternate universe not connected to Gunn\u2019s 2025 film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off of the success of The Mummy franchise, Brendan Fraser was once in consideration for a Superman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15101,89390,146,85,46,89389,13818],"class_list":{"0":"post-148141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brendan-fraser","9":"tag-brett-ratner","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-j-j-abrams","14":"tag-superman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}