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   Gordon

   February 23, 2011 at 2:07 pm | # | Reply

   I like him as Pa Kent. Perry White needs to be more gruff and less charming than Costner. Yeah, maybe he could try to “act” or something but come on, this is a Zack Snyder movie we’re talking about.
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   Tony

   February 23, 2011 at 2:17 pm | # | Reply

   You know, I hate to say it, but when I saw the news flying, I just read “Costner” and “Superman” and I automatically thought Perry White. Not until I saw this did I think or know it was Pa Kent.

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   Eoraptor

   February 23, 2011 at 2:50 pm | # | Reply

   Honestly, I can’t see him in either role. He is definitely not the sort of moral authority of mid-american waspyness that we ascribe to paw Kent, but I don’t think he has the fire and brimstone of the managing editor of a great metropolitan newspaper. I guess I’m a bit of a traditionalist where it comes to superman and am sad panda that they didn’t recast Routh, but that’s me.

   Mow I COULD see him as Lex Luthor, he has that sort of oily intelligence about him, the sort of “a-hole streak” you mention. But again, that’s just me.

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     Tom

     February 23, 2011 at 3:59 pm | # | Reply

     Luthor would be an interesting choice, but I think Costner is too genial to be ruthless. There’s a conflict in him which makes him interesting. But to play Luthor, you have to be a straight-out badass.

     I guess I was thinking he was a better fit for Perry White because he’s capable of being bombastic. Some of the trial speeches he gave in JFK come to mind.