Brandon Routh just missed the superhero movie boom by a spit curl.
The actor, with his uncanny resemblance to the original movie Man of Steel, Christopher Reeve, starred in “Superman Returns” back in 2006. The film got respectable reviews and made $391 million at the global box office.
But this was pre-Marvel Studios mania and all that it spawned. There were no streaming superheroes. No Infinity Stones to be collected (yet). And no calls for a sequel or for Routh to punch Batman in the face.
