Crowe will next be seen in Bryan Singer's Superman reboot as Jor-El, and is currently in pre-production on Tom Hooper's Les Miserables. At 47, he may require some prosthetics to tackle Noah, who knocked up his ark in his 600th year, and lived ...

which probably isn’t compatible with any romantic plans you might have unless you’re auditioning for the part of Jor-El in the next Superman movie. While the headband didn’t prevent me from falling asleep, I woke up the first night to find ...

The news was exclusively reported by Deadline. Crowe has been a busy man as of late, recently doing work on both "Man of Steel" (in which he co-stars as Superman's biological father Jor-El) and "Broken City", the Allen Hughes-directed crime drama that also ...

Or at least have a beer?). Thankfully, the clone of his dead father, Jor-El, is around to knock some sense in him. He shows his son what life would be like if he had never been born, and it’s bad. Real bad. Lex Luthor is president. And he’s planning to ...

You can thank Coach Pop for that. I think you wanted Shaquille O’Neal to pass the cape along to you and be the Jor-El to your Superman. Unfortunately, it never happened. Instead, you two have been fighting like General Zod and Kal-El (I ...

Two years after Brando's death, he "reprised" the role of Jor-El in the 2006 "loose sequel" Superman Returns, in which both used and unused archive footage of Brando as Jor-El from the first two Superman films was remastered for a scene in the Fortress of ...

While Smallville would have exposed us to Kryptonian heritage, it’s Jor-El’s moments of desperation, in search of refuge for his family, that is thought-provoking. Also the notion of escaping via the Phantom Zone certainly underscored Kal-El’s solo ...

Young said he's determined to make it a great one. Twenty-four years ago, Leroy and Annie Young named their son Jerrell because it sounded like "Jor-El,'' father of the fictional Superman character. Young can't fly, and he doesn't wear a cape.

Zack Synder is directing the movie - which is expected to be released in 2013 - which will see Russell Crowe portray Superman's father, Jor-El. Russell, 47, recently revealed has been hitting the gym in a bid to get fit for the role. He wrote on twitter ...

And feeding into that as well is the question about the House of El itself, because Jor-El and Zor-El both had different plans, different responses to the threat to Krypton, and the difference between the brothers themselves is something we want ...