Adams cast as Superman's Lois Lane

Adams cast as Superman's Lois Lane

Amy Adams, shown at the Oscars in February, will play Lois Lane in the new Superman film. Amy Adams, shown at the Oscars in February, will play Lois Lane in the new Superman film.

Amy Adams has landed the coveted role of Lois Lane in director Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman remake.

She'll play the ace Daily Planet newspaper reporter and love interest to British actor Henry Cavill's Clark Kent and Superman. Actors Diane Lane and Kevin Costner have also signed to portray the superhero's adoptive parents: Martha and Jonathan Kent.

Adams, 36, is a three-time Oscar nominee for best supporting actress: for 2010's The Fighter, 2008's Doubt and 2005's Junebug, which marked her breakout role in Hollywood.

As the new Lois Lane, she tackles a noted role that has previously been played on film by Noel Neill in the 1950s, Margot Kidder in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kate Bosworth in 2006. On TV, Teri Hatcher (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) and Erica Durance (Smallville) have portrayed the inquisitive journalist.

"Second only to Superman himself, the question of who will play Lois Lane is arguably what fans have been most curious about," Snyder said in announcing the casting.

He praised Adams as "one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today. Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful."

Adams is also is set to star in the upcoming Muppets movie and portray Janis Joplin in a biopic about the late singer directed by Fernando Meirelles.