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Actor Matt Bomer lost the role of Superman after he was outted as gay (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I was guessing the movie was Superman Returns, just because of how ironic it would have been.

[–] Waldowal 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The article says it was a canceled JJ Abrams movie called "Superman: Fly-by"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's about the level of creativity I expect from abrams. "See Superman flys, so the movie is called fly by! It's evocative!"

[–] Cort 2 points 5 months ago

Lol and here I was picturing Superman with an uzi doing a drive-by while flying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Flyboy*

[–] jordanlund 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's what I was thinking... 2001 to 2003? Being gay didn't seem to hurt Bryan Singer... X-Men was 2000. X2 was 2003.

Singer left the franchise to do Superman Returns in 2006.

[–] A_Random_Idiot 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

behind the camera vs front of the camera?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I mean, that was a different studio and media company... easily possibly that Warner had a homophobic manager up in the food chain while Fox did not

[–] SgtAStrawberry 4 points 5 months ago

Can you explain why?

I tried looking but I'm not sure what it is am looking for and there was A LOT of new articles about its event.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He went on to make white collar, one of my fav tv series, so I can't say I'm too upset at how things worked out.

[–] johannesvanderwhales 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah I really enjoyed that show. Also I find it hard to believe that anyone was overly shocked to learn this.

[–] Toneswirly 15 points 5 months ago

Its crazy how similar looking he is with Henry Cavill

[–] Delusional 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didn't even know he was gay but I was sure gay for him.

[–] OldChicoAle 1 points 5 months ago

It's called acting sweaty /s

[–] FreakinSteve 10 points 5 months ago

And he went on to portray Negative Man, the gay member of the antihero collective Doom Patrol and he was great in it.

[–] Anticorp 10 points 5 months ago

Well, that's dumb.