The 2006 movie failed to launch a film series for DC’s Man of Steel.
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It sounds like Brandon Routh was as confused as everyone else as to why we never got a Superman Returns sequel.
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When Superman Returns flew into cinemas back in 2006, it was the Man of Steel’s first big screen outing in nearly 20 years. A quasi-sequel to the earlier film franchise headlined by Christopher Reeve, Bryan Singer’s movie – which starred Brandon Routh in the lead role, alongside Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane and Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor – received broadly positive reviews, but underperformed at the box office.