Spacey, Bosworth: Super Friends
[tag]Kevin Spacey[/tag] and [tag]Kate Bosworth[/tag], who costar as the swinging 1960s popsters in the Darin biopic Beyond the Sea, are lined up to play master criminal [tag]Lex Luthor[/tag] and intrepid reporter [tag]Lois Lane[/tag], respectively, in the upcoming Man of Steel movie.
The two will share the screen with newcomer Brandon Routh, tapped last fall as the Last Son of Krypton.
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Bosworth, who turned 22 last Sunday, would be the youngest-ever big-screen Lois Lane. Noel Neill and Phyllis Coates, who played the plucky Daily Planet journalist in the 1940s and 1950s, were both in their mid- to late-20s; Margot Kidder was 30 by the time she was seen jotting down notes in 1978’s Superman–The Movie.Bosworth also would be the first big-screen Lois Lane to be linked off-screen to Orlando Bloom, and to have made her mark as a surfer chick (in 2000’s Blue Crush).
I am enthusiastic about Spacey as Luthor.
Not so much for Bosworth.
A blonde Lois? A surfer girl Lois? A 22-year-old Lois?
Bosworth may be the flavor of the month, but she doesn’t have the acting chops to pull this off. I think the girl playing teenage Lois on “Smallville” is probably older. It’s about as bad as Katie Holmes playing Bruce Wayne’s love interest in “Batman Begins.”
There have been times when the comic-book Lois has been played as a victim who caused Superman more problems than she was worth. But the modern version has it just about right: A smart and strong woman, accomplished in her field, able to remain an equal partner in her relationship with the Man of Steel.
I couldn’t imagine Kate Bosworth playing any reporter for a Great Metropolitan Newspaper, let alone the Future Mrs. Superman.
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