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Man of Steel Goes Spacey
Kevin Spacey is going up, up and away again.
The two-time Oscar winner has agreed to reprise his role as conniving bald baddie Lex Luthor in Superman: The Man of Steel, Bryan Singer's sequel to last summer's blockbuster Superman Returns.
Spacey sealed the deal after sitting down with the filmmaker in New York, per Variety. Spacey was appearing in the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neil's Moon for the Misbegotten, which ended its run last month.
The actor and director needed to find some common time in their respective schedules to shoot the new comic book caper.
Before he resumes plotting world domination again as Superman's number one nemesis, the 48-year-old actor will first shoot Telstar, Nick Noran's big-screen adaptation of his and James Hicks' 2005 West End black comedy about colorful '60s record impresario Joe Meek.
Once Telstar wraps later this year, Spacey will take some time off before beginning rehearsals for a revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. The play, probably best remembered for Madonna's ill-fated stage debut two decades ago, will run on the West End from January through April.
Once the curtain falls, Spacey will have six weeks to shoot his Lex Luthor scenes for Man of Steel before returning to his duties as artistic director of London's Old Vic Theater, for which he has eight years left on a 10-year contract. (Spacey has also teamed up with his American Beauty helmer Sam Mendes for an ongoing theatrical alliance between the Old Vic and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.)
Singer, meanwhile, is about to roll cameras on Valkryrie, a World War II Hitler assassination thriller with Tom Cruise that's caused some controversy in Germany due to the star's Scientology connection. The film reunites Singer with his Oscar-winning Usual Suspects screenwriter, Christopher McQuarrie.
The filmmaker will then take the reins on The Mayor of Castro Street, a biopic of San Francisco politician and gay-rights activist Harvey Milk who was assassinated in the 1970s. The film has been in development for well over a decade.
Singer will then segue into The Man of Steel, which Warners is targeting for a summer 2009 release. The film brings back Brandon Routh as the titular hero and Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. Superman Returns scribe Michael Dougherty is already back at the typewriter for the second go-round.
As for Spacey, the actor recently told the Britain's ITV1 television that he was easing back on film roles to focus on restoring the Old Vic to prominence.
"My priorities have changed," said the actor, whose tenure at the Old Vic has been rocky. "Theater is the number one thing in my life. But I love movies and will continue to make movies when I can. I don't care about my personal acting career any more. I'm done with it."
The comments led some to speculate that Spacey was quitting Hollywood, but the actor told Variety on Wednesday that "someone else pulled that out of thin air. It's false, there's not a lick of truth to it."
In fact, Spacey has two films slated for release this year—the holiday comedy Fred Claus, costarring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti and directed by David Dobkin, and 21, based on the true story of MIT geeks who take Vegas casinos for millions. The drama once again teams him with Bosworth.
Finally, Spacey is ready to show off his pipes by contributing two songs to the Dean Martin tribute CD Forever Cool, due out Aug. 14.
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