Actor Russell Crowe could be tapped to fill the shoes of Marlon Brando.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Crowe is considering taking in the role of Jor-El in the upcoming film, The Man of Steel. Fans may recall that Brando played the role of Superman’s father in the original feature and the Richard Donnor cut of Superman II.
Brando was famously paid $3.7 million dollars in the mid-1970s for the part that amounted to 15 minutes of screen timea and two weeks’ worth of work. Details of how large the role (a scientist who forsees the destruction of his planet and squires his infant son into an escape rocket bound for Earth) is in Man of Steel are not being revealed.
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