Ornate ceremonial armour covers his shoulder and chest, yet underneath his outfit looks rather similar to the one worn by new Superman Henry Cavill in publicity shots from earlier this year (hardly surprising since the superhero's outfit is based on Kryptonian designs in the comics). With that muted yet ostentatious costume, Crowe rather looks as if he's stepped off the set of David Lynch's Dune. The Matrix star was selected to play the stern Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Planet newspaper, Perry White, according to Entertainment Weekly. Laurence Fishburne will join the Man of Steel cast as the boss of Lois Lane and Clark Kent. Front: the director Zack Snyder and the Italian language interpreter. Still, one could never quite imagine Crowe rocking the all-in-celestial-white, floppy-fringed look that Brando bore in return for enough cash to wipe out the national debt of Greece, so it's hardly surprising that our first look at the new Jor-El offers a very different image. Man of Steel: Laurence Fishburne Joins Cast of Superman. English: The cast of Man of Steel at Taormina Film Fest 2013, Italian premiere of the movie.
If there is any current figure who comes close to combining Brando's soaring talent and screen presence with an ego the size of 50 Kryptons it's the New Zealand-born star of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.
When Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan got down to the business of casting their forthcoming Superman reboot, Man of Steel, they cannot have had to ponder for too long before coming up with Russell Crowe for Jor-El, Superman's genetic father and the character played by Marlon Brando in Richard Donner's 1978 film.
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