Jude Law remembers when he turned down the role of Superman

Known for acting in films such as The Talented Ripley (1999), Love Doesn’t Take a Vacation (2006), Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets (2022) and Sherlock Holmes (2009), Jude Law received an offer to star in a film by Super man in the early 2000s.

The film in question was Superman: Flybywhich had a script JJ Abrams and would be directed by Brett Ratner. The project entered pre-production in 2002, but did not go ahead and never saw the light of day. One of the great wishes of the people involved was to have Law in the main role.

In a podcast episode Discourseproduced by The Playlistreleased last Tuesday, the 12th, the 51-year-old actor was asked about the rumors of Flybyand confirmed the involvement of Ratner in the direction. “So, that’s true. Yes. And there was a flirting process going on,” she recalled. “I always resisted because it seemed [nada a ver].”

And I know you might say, ‘Well, but you interpreted Yonn-Rogg It is Dumbledore!’ It felt like a step too far.

“Was when Brett Ratner would direct, I think. And they didn’t have a script, if I remember correctly. Did they have a script? I don’t remember reading one,” the artist continued. “That was a long time ago. They brought me the costume. They thought, ‘This might change your mind.'”

Right away, Jude Law told how the costume of the Super man was “more metallic” than usual: “Anyway, I tried it on and looked in the mirror and part of it I initially thought, ‘Wow, that would be a [coisa boa]’, and then I thought, ‘No, you can’t – you can’t do that. You can not.’ And I didn’t sell out to myself.

I walked away and the movie never happened anyway. So maybe I probably would have done nothing.