Actor Matt Bomer lost the role of Superman after he was outted as gay

@jeffw · 6 months ago

@[email protected] · 6 months ago

I was guessing the movie was Superman Returns, just because of how ironic it would have been.

Waldowal · 6 months ago

The article says it was a canceled JJ Abrams movie called “Superman: Fly-by”

@[email protected] · 6 months ago

That’s about the level of creativity I expect from abrams. “See Superman flys, so the movie is called fly by! It’s evocative!”

@Cort · 6 months ago

Lol and here I was picturing Superman with an uzi doing a drive-by while flying

@[email protected] · 6 months ago

Flyboy*

@jordanlund · 6 months ago

That’s what I was thinking… 2001 to 2003? Being gay didn’t seem to hurt Bryan Singer… X-Men was 2000. X2 was 2003.

Singer left the franchise to do Superman Returns in 2006.

@A_Random_Idiot · 6 months ago

behind the camera vs front of the camera?

@jordanlund · 6 months ago

Well, Singer was behind the camera, but he also came up with the most homoerotic looking Superman:

I think it’s the smaller shield and boyshorts.

Compared with:

or the new guy:

@[email protected] · 6 months ago

I mean, that was a different studio and media company… easily possibly that Warner had a homophobic manager up in the food chain while Fox did not

@SgtAStrawberry · 6 months ago

Can you explain why?

I tried looking but I’m not sure what it is am looking for and there was A LOT of new articles about its event.