{"id":148291,"date":"2025-11-23T06:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/148291\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:32:07","slug":"brendan-fraser-was-uncertain-about-superman-role-in-jj-abrams-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/148291\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser Was Uncertain About Superman Role In JJ Abrams Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brendan Fraser revealed that he once auditioned to be Superman<\/a> in a canceled film.<\/p>\n

Fraser told Josh Horowitz during an interview on his Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a> that he was almost cast as the Man of Steel. He recalled doing a screen test for a potential Superman film by JJ Abrams<\/a> and Brett Ratner. The superhero adaptation unfortunately never made it to production as Warner Bros. decided to move forward with Bryan Singer\u2019s 2006 Superman Returns instead.<\/p>\n

However, Fraser admitted that he wasn’t sure if he would have been the right fit for the role for the project in the first place. The Mummy actor<\/a> explained how it would have been a lot of pressure to take on such an iconic role, and being the face of such a huge franchise would require a lot of commitment.<\/p>\n

The actor also expressed the anxiety that he most likely would have faced if he had played the Man of Steel in a film. He added that there was a part of him that feared he would only be known as Superman and nothing else if he got the role. He made it clear that it wouldn’t be a bad thing to be known as one of the most iconic superheroes of all time, but he was unsure if he wanted that to be a part of his brand.<\/p>\n

You 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.<\/p>\n

Although the untitled film never came close to seeing the light of day, Fraser said that he felt very connected to the script. It even strangely reminded him of a Shakespeare play. \u201cI loved that screenplay. They 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,” he explained.<\/p>\n

As for Abrams’ superhero ventures, in 2021, reports surfaced that he was working on a Superman film<\/a> with novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates. Although story details regarding the upcoming movie are still under wraps, their version of Clark Kent will be set in a different timeline and unrelated to James Gunn\u2019s iteration of the character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser revealed that he once auditioned to be Superman in a canceled film. Fraser told Josh Horowitz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-148291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148291","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=148291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}