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Great Hera!

Amy Adams Is Our New Lois Lane

by Susana Polo | 4:06 pm, March 27th, 2011


Three-time Oscar nominated actress Amy Adams has been tapped to portray The Daily Planet‘s star reporter Lois Lane in Zach Snyder‘s reboot of the big screen Superman mythos. Perhaps best known for her roles in Enchanted and Julie & Julia, she’s was up for Oscars for Junebug, Doubt, and most recently The Fighter.  With her confirmation as Lois Lane, she joins an illustrious family of brunettes (or pseudo-brunettes) who’ve portrayed the unstoppable investigative reporter whose measured critique of the Man of Steel goes hand in hand with her sweet spot for him.

 

 

 

 

Adams joins the ranks along side Margot Kidder, from the 70′s and 80′s Superman films;

Teri Hatcher, from the long running Lois & Clark television show (which was indirectly responsible for the death of Superman in comics);

and most recently Erica Durance

and Kate Bosworth, who portrayed the character in Smallville and Superman Returns, respectively.

We’ve been seeing a lot of articles on this today, and we just want to remind everybody that Lois Lane wasn’t always the whip-smart, badass lady reporter with bestselling journalistic books and Pulitzers under her belt. Right up until the 70′s, she was kind of a marriage-to-Superman obsessed nut-job who constantly needed saving. Thank goodness for retcons.

And Superman: The Animated Series.

(via Hero Complex.)

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  • ryospn

    I don’t think Kate Bosworth ever went on Smallville did she? Anyway, after the terrible reviews Sucker Punch has gotten, I don’t have much faith in this movie. That way, I’ll be nicely surprised if it’s not terrible and not disappointed if it is.

  • http://twitter.com/KivrinEngle Kivrin Engle

    “…and most recently Erica Durance and Kate Bosworth, who portrayed the character in ‘Smallville’ and ‘Superman Returns,’ respectfully [sic].” The picture breaking up the text made it confusing, but it was written correctly (except that “respectfully” should be “respectively”).

  • Anonymous

    Aha. I vividly remember typing that now, and thinking “Huh, I never noticed before that the word for “in the order given” is the same as the adverb form of respect. Interesting.” *takakakakaka* PUBLISH.

    Bad brain.

    Thanks for pointing that out.

  • http://twitter.com/KivrinEngle Kivrin Engle

    Ha, no worries—thanks for not being offended! I am an incorrigible backseat editor. Anyway, it was just 3 little letters! No biggie. :)

  • Anonymous

    “Right up until the 70′s, she was kind of a marriage-to-Superman obsessed nut-job who constantly needed saving. Thank goodness for retcons”
    That sort of applied to Lana Lang, too… Although, she has proven to have been an improved character, as well…

  • Anonymous

    ////Right up until the 70′s, she was kind of a marriage-to-Superman obsessed nut-job who constantly needed saving. Thank goodness for retcons.////
    Umm…this is not at all true.  You need to get your facts straight.

    Lois was created in 1938 as the hard hitting journalist.  She was classified with many qualities right from the start that were more traditionally associated with MEN than with women.

    However, after World war II when our culture was experiencing a fear of the women taking over the men’s jobs after the men returned from the war the women were basically pushed BACK into their sexist roles.   

    Lois was returned to her hard hitting ways when this sexist approach stopped.  Please learn your history.

  • http://twitter.com/KatiePunkin Kate Holloway

    She was also one of the early “villains” in Smallville. She devoured animals/people because her Kryptonite lose weight veggie shake made her super hungry and able to suck the fat off living creatures, food, etc.

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