People are saying that Henry Cavill's aged out of the Superman role and I'm just kind of baffled because, like. He's, what, forty?

Meanwhile Black Adam's got heroes in their fifties and sixties?

...have...have they just never seen what Hollywood does with that?

Between special effects and makeup I'm pretty sure they've got this covered.

Yeah.

It's not like he's an actress, Hollywood doesn't have an expiration date for men.

I mean, that, and this isn't like the 90s and early aughts where you've got people very obviously in their 30s and up playing teenagers (badly).

They can hide this shit if they want to

The only real obstacles are body size (they can't age you down to a teenage body, for example), and that's not a factor here.

They've already proven with Shazam that they're willing to work with muscle suits.

So even if he doesn't do the "Gotta be SWOLE" route...

yeah

please also just once gimme silver fox supes

like i get that batfleck probably will be and is in the process of being if not has been already recast as someone because batman is perpetually being recast instead of retired and batfleck was intentionally a case of casting a man at the edge of being able to perform that character in the first place to represent that he was burning out, narratively

and that cavill's perpetual model-fresh face stood in contrast to that

but without batfleck that context doesn't carry over???? why recast

Then again, with Michael Keaton returning as Batman, like

also I love that Hollywood has a weird aversion to like...the middle age range with casting.

Before that? Whatever you want. After that? Oddly, ALSO whatever you want.

But by god if it's DURING we're gonna pigeonhole you into very specific roles. Hope you like mentor characters, "the old pro" archetype, or people past their prime and not handling it well.

and ummmmm Superman aged in the comics why make him forever young in the movies?

I can see them wanting to ditch Cavill if they were trying to get away from Snyder

But the age thing just doesn't make sense

(Nevermind that rumor has it that they're bringing Cavill back)