A brand new photograph has surfaced on-line that includes actor Josh Hartnett dressed up as Superman for a wardrobe check for Brett Ratner‘s scrapped Superman movie undertaking Superman: Flyby. That is the undertaking that J.J. Abrams wrote the script for.

The costume exhibits us that this model of the Man of Metal would’ve sported a purple Superman brand towards a black background relatively than yellow. This model of the brand was most notably used within the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons. As you possibly can see, the “S” doesn’t actually pop.

A number of actors had been thought-about for this function right now together with Henry Cavill and Brandon Routh. Hartnett was initially supplied the half, however finally turned it down. Matthew Bomer was then employed for the function, however after that the undertaking fell aside.

Hartnett talked about turning the undertaking down saying: “Spider-Man was one thing we talked about. Batman was one other one. However I in some way knew these roles had the potential to outline me, and I did not need that. I did not need to be labeled as Superman for the remainder of my profession. I used to be perhaps 22, however I noticed the hazard.”

Superman: Flyby was “an origin story that included Krypton besieged by a civil battle between Jor-El and his corrupt brother, Kata-Zor. Earlier than Kata-Zor sentences Jor-El to jail, Kal-El is launched to Earth to satisfy a prophecy. Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent, he types a romance with Lois Lane within the Every day Planet. Nevertheless, Lois is extra involved with exposing Lex Luthor, written as a authorities agent obsessive about UFO phenomena. Clark reveals himself to the world as Superman, bringing Kata-Zor’s son, Ty-Zor, and three different Kryptonians to Earth. Superman is defeated and killed, and visits Jor-El (who dedicated suicide on Krypton whereas in jail) in Kryptonian heaven. Resurrected, he returns to Earth and defeats the 4 Kryptonians, whereas the script ends with Superman off to Krypton, leaving a cliffhanger for a sequel.”

Robert Downey Jr. was set to play Lex Luthor within the movie and Shia LaBeouf was going to play Jimmy Olsen. Scarlett Johansson and Selma Blair had been up for the function of Lois Lane, and Christopher Walken was in talks to play Perry White, and Joel Edgerton was up for the a part of Ty-Zor. Paul Walker was additionally up for a job within the film.

Abrams wrote Superman: Flyby in 2002. On the time he was greatest identified for his work on the TV sequence Felicity. He talked about his imaginative and prescient for the movie saying: “The factor that I attempted to emphasise within the story was that if the Kents discovered this boy, Kal-El, who had the facility that he did, he would have most definitely killed them each in brief order. And the concept that these mother and father would see – in the event that they had been fortunate to outlive lengthy sufficient – that they needed to instantly start instructing this child to restrict himself and to not be so quick, not be so sturdy, not be so highly effective. The results of that, psychologically, can be worry of oneself, self-doubt and being ashamed of what you had been able to. Extrapolating that to maturity turned an enchanting psychological profile of somebody who was not pretending to be Clark Kent, however who was Clark Kent. Who had turn into that sort of a personality who just isn’t in a position or keen to simply accept who he was and what his future was.”

The photograph comes from Ryan Unicomb, who apparently has a knack for locating stuff like this from unmade or unreleased movie productions.