Amy Adams to Play Lois Lane in Superman Movie (That Zack Snyder Is Still Directing)

Amy Adams to Play Lois Lane in Superman Movie (That Zack Snyder Is Still Directing)


If you’re a movie studio looking to change the subject from Zack Snyder’s current movie, one surefire way to do it is to slip out a little news about his next one. Over the weekend, when Mr. Snyder’s new fetishized fantasy-adventure, “Sucker Punch,” failed to get off the ground, selling just $19 million in tickets on a budget of at least $80 million, Warner Brothers Pictures countered with an announcement that Mr. Snyder had found the actress who will play Lois Lane in his coming Superman movie. Amy Adams, an Academy Award nominee for “The Fighter,” “Doubt” and “Junebug,” will play that fearless Daily Planet reporter and sometime paramour to the Man of Steel and his alter ego, Clark Kent. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Mr. Snyder described Ms. Adams as “one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today” with “the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful.”

Warner Brothers had previously announced that Mr. Snyder’s Superman movie, planned for a 2012 release, would star Henry Cavill (of “The Tudors”) as the title red-and-blue hero, and Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as his adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent. No word yet who might play other familiar characters like Perry White or Jimmy Olsen, or who would be the villains of the film. (Here’s hoping that unlike “Sucker Punch,” it won’t be the critics.)