Why Will Smith Turned Down The Chance To Play Superman

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After a more than a decade of the dark Snyderrse, made “Superman” made by James Gon, “Superman”, DC movies are enjoyable again. Ignoring a series and films in the 1940s in which Superman appears, but it was not the main character, “Superman” in Gon is the seventh adaptation of the character beard of the character, and although it will not coincide with the legendary situation of Richard Donner in 1978, it gave us at least an original vision of a steel man.

The exact thing cannot be said about the 2006 “Superman Return”. The film was mainly the director of Bian Singer for Richard Donner/Christopher Reef films, and it was actually a direct supplement to “Superman II” in the 1980s. However, among the Superman movies, “RTURNS” is far from the worst input, and although the singer tends to the Supes-Crist Christ is very difficult at times, he is full of wonderful sectors and features a strong role of Brandon Roth in the foreground.

“Superman Returns” did not get a complement, but not because it was a failure and out. In fact, $ 391 million at the global box office, which was strong at that time. Unfortunately, the film cost $ 232 million incredible, ensuring that he has certainly not fulfilled any money for Warner Bros. After many people participating in the film began to get out of preparations, everything collapses before Zack Snyder re -SUPERMAN with “Man of Steel” in 2013 – which is great by Richard Donner. Meanwhile, after it was placed on a road to Megastardom at the beginning, ROUTH faded to mystery in the years after the movie. With this in mind, Will Smith is likely to have rejected the movie.

Will Smith committed some mistakes in his career – and this puts it lightly. Anyone who follows his career in the post -rejection stage and his recent musical endeavors has definitely asked the question, “Will Smith is fine?” But some of his least mistakes involve the rejection of the roles that he should have really taken. Smith rejected the role of NEO in “The Matrix”, then, after 25 years, he performed a music video back to the movie in another movie “Is Will Smith?” A moment. Smith refused “the beginning” of Christopher Nolan because he “did not get it”, and almost “men in black” rejected until Stephen Spielberg entered.

As such, “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star showed a great talent for saying “No” for films that have become huge. But one of the courses that are not easily summarized is the role of Superman in “Superman Returns. Talk to MTV News in 2008, the actor said:

“The last” Superman “that you showed, the scenario came, and I was like,” there is no way to play Superman! “Because I already did Jim West [of ‘Wild Wild West’]And you cannot mess with the white people’s heroes in Hollywood! You tamper with the heroes of the white people in Hollywood, you will never work in this city again! “

There was a lot of mistakes in “Wild Wild West” for 1999, but I am not sure that the film became the critical and commercial catastrophe that he simply did because Smith “spoiled the heroes of white people” – although perhaps not all this was serious when he said that. This film was a restart in the movie “The Wild Wild West” in the sixties of the last century, and director Barry Sonfield claimed in his memoirs “The best possible place, and the worst possible time: real stories from a profession in Hollywood”, this original star, Robert Conrad, actually threatened violence if Jim West plays the role of a black man. So there is some basis for the evaluation of Smith, but the real issues with the film itself included the complete lack of chemistry between Smith and his co -star Kevin Klein and the fact that, as Tirins Ravieri of New Yorker said, the movie was “completely without feeling, and has no meaning.”

It is difficult to say what would have happened with “Superman’s Revenue” if Will Smith assumed the leadership role. In some sense, he was right to refuse the film simply based on what would happen with him. “RTURNS” is far from the “Wild Wild West” disaster, but it is also overlooked, which was not the best appearance of the Smith star (although his latest diplomas).

On the other hand, Smith’s sharing could have changed the effect of “returns” and their heritage completely. Not only was the first black superman on the screen, but it was a much larger star than Brandon Roth, which would definitely increase the attractiveness of the movie, which could result in the box office larger, and perhaps know, perhaps it was a completely different history on the screen for a steel man.

At one point, there He was Two Black Superman projects in the field of development, one of which is a film produced by JJ ABRAMS written by TA-Nehisi Coates and the other HBO Max series with Michael B. Jordan attached. The former representative of Superman Henry Cavill gave his personal blessing for the black Superman projects, saying that the superheroes are “much more than skin color”, but we have not yet seen any project. Now that James Gon took the position of DC Honcho president (alongside producer Peter Safran) and launched a new coherent world, it seems likely that none of these projects already happens. If Smith disturbed “Superman Revenue”, at least he would have made history, and in this way, “returns” turned something more than just a strong but it can be forgotten in the law of a steel man.