have gotten Bale by default. Or would we have? Not exactly sure of the dates on all of that but 'BJ' would've had to have been left out. Could they have used Tom Welling? Not sure. I mean, he didn't want to do a Superman film & cause Smallville to end prematurely so he may not have done that either. Nah, people knew by then that BJ was a talentless BO cancer, which has only been CEMENTED in the years since. So who it would have been, nobody knows... I guess the point is, if the story was awesome & the casting likewise, then that might could've given the Avengers a run for it's money. Now we'll never know. The really distressing part about all of this though is that you'd think WB/DC would get the message after a while?! I mean, it's not rocket science duh WB. Nah, to the Brothers Warner, it's rocket surgery. _________________ BJ Routh and Bryan Singer WERE the worst thing to happen to Superman since Bepo the Super Monkey. Apologist Puncher wrote: In the end though, they DID green-light the 'Mortal' debacle, even if it was only temporarily. Money was spent. Scripts were approved. Costumes were made. NONE of this could have been done without the Bros. Warner saying it was "Good to go". But, unfortunately, "good" it was not . All I'm letting them off the hook for is the necessity of it. Besides, it's not like they can reach into their vault