“Everyone in town was reading for Superman. I remember Paul Walker was before me.'
in the early 2000s when Warner Bros. recruited then-screenwriter J.J. Abrams to pen a new film about the Man of Steel. In our world, Fraser lost out on the role. The Oscar nominee recently opened up to Howard Stern about what it was like being a contender for Superman. Abrams’ script, “Superman: Flyby,” courted all of the biggest names in Hollywood at the time.
While Fraser realized that landing the role of Superman would be “a life-changing amazing opportunity,” he also “had to reconcile with, ‘Okay, say you do get the job to be the Man of Steel, it’s gonna be chipped on your gravestone, are you okay with that? I mean, forever more known as the Man of Steel.'”
Fraser did not land the role, nor did “Superman: Flybay” take flight at Warner Bros. past the development phase.
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