News has just broken that English actor Henry Cavill has been cast as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman for the Christopher Nolan-produced, Zack Snyder-directed Man of Steel feature film due out late next year. He joins countryman Christian Bale in the very select category of "British Actors Portraying One of the Two Biggest Superheroes Of All Time". If he's even half as effective at it as Mr Bale has been through two movies so far, then sign me up to his bandwagon. There's still the troubling aspect of Snyder's directorial involvement, which I'm fearful Nolan's producing powers won't be able to completely nullify, but what can you do?
[Update later that same day: Tammy, in the comments, points out that the current Spider-Man-in-filming, Andrew Garfield, is of British descent. Born in California of British parents, he was eventually raised in the UK. So we'll add him to the list!]
(The title of this blog post of course plays off the name of Pete Townshend's highly entertaining album All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes.)
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And Andrew Garfield is also British I think?
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