Oh, Lexy Spacey...Oh, What Have You Done

Yahoo! confirms today that negotiations have begun for Kevin Spacey to play Lex Luthor and Kate Bosworth to play Lois Lane in the new Superman movie. It's kind of a weird thing, because they're currently starring together as Bobby Darrin and Sandra Dee in Beyond the Sea. Guess who plays who?

Mercifully, they would not be love interests in Superman, unless Warner Bros. is really changing the mythology on us. It's kind of cool, if only because Spacey will reunite with Bryan Singer, who directed him to fame and fortune in Usual Suspects and who is helming Superman as well.

I hope Warners can turn things around in their superhero division. This new Christopher Nolan-directed Batman Begins sounds promising (I've been told by more than one person that the script rules), and a Bryan Singer-directed Superman movie with an old-fashioned bad-ass Kevin Spacey performance as the villain sounds like it could work for me. Only time will tell.

Oh, and as for Kate Bosworth...my only problem is that she seems a bit young. And why do only blonde actresses get these parts in superhero movies when almost none of their comic book counterparts have blonde hair? I mean, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson is one thing, but Lois Lane = brunette, you know? Even if Bosworth goes dark...it's just not the same.

It clearly should be Ashlee Simpson.