• Kevin Costner confirmed as Pa Kent in Zack Snyder's 'Superman'
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[img]http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/movies/m/mr_brooks/promo/281x211.jpg[/img] [quote]News popped up a few weeks ago that veteran actor Kevin Costner was in the running for an unnamed role in Zack Snyder's upcoming DC Comics adaptation, "Superman." The word at the time was that there was a "heightened interest" in having him step into "a key role" in the movie. Now both the casting and the role have been confirmed. Costner will play Clark Kent's adoptive father, Jonathan Kent, according to a Warner Bros press release. He joins the recently cast Diane Lane, who is set to play Clark's mother, Martha. Costner and Lane's characters will be offering parental wisdom to Snyder's Superman, confirmed in late-January to be played by "The Tudors" star Henry Cavill. Snyder said in a statement, "Jonathan Kent is the only father figure Clark has ever had, the man who was there to help Clark understand what he was meant to do in the world as Superman. Kevin will be able to communicate the quiet strength of this rural American man who raised the greatest super hero of all time." Costner is no stranger to playing the "rural American man." He was just that in "Dances With Wolves," which earned him two Academy Awards for producing and directing, and which he starred in. The down-home middle American is an attribute that is characteristic of many of Costner's performances, in films as diverse as "Field of Dreams," "Bull Durham," "Swing Vote" and even the post-apocalyptic drama "The Postman." Given Costner's past experience with similar characters, would you [/quote] [url]http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/03/18/kevin-costner-zack-snyder-superman/[/url]
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