Superman Returns - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[amber]

Brandon Routh is a Superman fan, and has a striking resemblance to Christopher Reeve.

[sandra]

Brandon Routh played on older version of this Superman in the Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) crossover episodes of the Arrowverse shows aired on the CW network.

[richard]

Actors including Eric Christian Olsen, Topher Grace, and Shawn Ashmore were being considered for the role of Jimmy Olson before Sam Huntington was cast. Shawn's brother, Aaron Ashmore, later portrayed both older brother Henry James "Jimmy" and younger brother James "Jimmy" Olsen in Smallville (2001).

[janice]

The two fighter planes escorting the space plane are Lockheed Martin F-35s. At the time of the release, the F-35 was still in production. The first real F-35 would not fly until December 2006, nearly six months after the release of the film.

[aaron]

The last map of his new continent that Luthor shows Lois Lane shows a sliver of California left after most of the United States is wiped out. That sliver of California is about the same region that Luthor had planned to destroy by nuking the San Andreas Fault in Superman (1978).

[nicholas]

In 2019, the film was retroactively connected to the CW's Arrowverse - the fictional universe shared by Arrow (2012), The Flash (2014), Constantine (2014), Supergirl (2015), DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016), and Batwoman (2019) - when it was announced that Brandon Routh, who also stars as Ray Palmer on "Legends of Tomorrow", would reprise the role of Clark Kent/Superman in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover event. As an in-joke to his role in the film, when Ray first met Kara Danvers, Clark's cousin from a parallel Earth, in the four-part crossover "Invasion!", he observed that she looks like his cousin.