Superman Returns

Superman Returns is a 2006 American superhero film directed and produced by Bryan Singer. It is based on the DC Comics character Superman and serves as an homage sequel to the motion pictures Superman The Movie 1978 and Superman II 1980, ignoring the events of Superman III 1983 and Superman IV The Quest for Peace 1987. The film stars Brandon Routh as Clark KentSuperman, Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, with James Marsden, Frank Langella, and Parker Posey. The film tells the story of the title character returning to Earth after a fiveyear absence. He finds that his love interest Lois Lane has moved on with her life, and that his archenemy Lex Luthor is plotting a scheme that will destroy Superman and the world.

Superman Brandon Routh has been missing for five years, since traveling to the location where astronomers believed they had discovered the remains of Krypton. During his absence, Supermans nemesis, mad scientist Lex Luthor Kevin Spacey, was released from prison due to Supermans failure to appear at Luthors trial and married an old rich widow Noel Neill to obtain her fortune upon her death. Having failed in his quest to find surviving Kryptonians, Superman returns to Earth and, as Clark Kent, resumes his job at the Daily Planet in Metropolis. He subsequently learns that Lois Lane Kate Bosworth has won a Pulitzer Prize for her article Why the World Doesnt Need Superman. Meanwhile, Luthor travels to the Fortress of Solitude and steals Kryptonian crystals to use for an experiment that causes a mass power outage on the East Coast. The power loss interferes with the flight test of a space shuttle to be launched into space from its piggyback mounting on an airliner, occupied by Lois Lane, who is covering the story. Clark flies into action as Superman and stops the plane from crashing onto a baseball stadium.The world rejoices at Supermans return, but he has difficulty coping with Loiss fianc, Richard White James Marsden, nephew of Daily Planet editorinchief Perry White Frank Langella, and their 5yearold son, Jason Tristan Lake Leabu. With Superman distracted by an outofcontrol vehicle, a diversion involving Lexs partnerincrime, Kitty Kowalski Parker Posey, Lex steals kryptonite from the Metropolis Museum of Natural History. Perry then assigns Lois to interview Superman while Clark investigates the blackout. Lois and Jason inadvertently board Luthors yacht and are captured after Lois decides to investigate the blackout story, which she connects to Luthors experiment. He reveals to them his latest scheme to grab land and power. By combining one of the stolen Kryptonian crystals with kryptonite, Luthor can grow a new continental landmass in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, one t

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