@jeffwM to Art • 6 months agoActor Matt Bomer lost the role of Superman after he was outted as gaywww.lgbtqnation.comexternal-linkmessage-square17arrow-up1160arrow-down18
arrow-up1152arrow-down1external-linkActor Matt Bomer lost the role of Superman after he was outted as gaywww.lgbtqnation.com@jeffwM to Art • 6 months agomessage-square17
minus-square@jordanlundlink6•6 months agoThat’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.
minus-square@jordanlundlink0•6 months agoWell, Singer was behind the camera, but he also came up with the most homoerotic looking Superman: http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/8600000/Superman-Returns-superman-returns-8693446-1490-2100.jpg I think it’s the smaller shield and boyshorts. Compared with: https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/10/104995/5346821-0495726539-bfde4.jpg or the new guy: https://www.threads.net/@jamesgunn/post/C6ogg_ux1r8?xmt=AQGzBT8pnV_5NY8AASygmk9iliGGME-j3hHIeTwRSER30oo
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 months agoI 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
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.
behind the camera vs front of the camera?
Well, Singer was behind the camera, but he also came up with the most homoerotic looking Superman:
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/8600000/Superman-Returns-superman-returns-8693446-1490-2100.jpg
I think it’s the smaller shield and boyshorts.
Compared with:
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/10/104995/5346821-0495726539-bfde4.jpg
or the new guy:
https://www.threads.net/@jamesgunn/post/C6ogg_ux1r8?xmt=AQGzBT8pnV_5NY8AASygmk9iliGGME-j3hHIeTwRSER30oo
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