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Amy Adams brings experience, and a modern spin, to Lois Lane in ‘Superman: Man of Steel’

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My colleague Geoff Boucher broke the news earlier today that Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in ‘Superman: Man of Steel,’ Zack Snyder’s reboot of the superhero franchise.

Among other things, the news represents a departure from some of the other superhero roles of late, which have tended to go to lesser-knowns. (Superman himself will of course be played by Henry Cavill, a relative newcomer to the big screen.)

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The Adams casting also comes at a time when the actress has been headed to a more dramatic place.

After a career of largely sweet and sunny roles (‘Junebug,’ ‘Enchanted,’ ‘Leap Year’ and ‘Julie & Julia’; ‘Doubt’ remains the major exception), Adams showed more dramatic chops as a tough-as-nails Lowell, Mass., bartender in ‘The Fighter,’ which garnered her her third Oscar nomination. Incidentally, Adams is more experienced at this point in her career than Margot Kidder, who when she was cast as Lois in the 1978 ‘Superman’ in her late 20s had mostly genre movies under her belt.

Kidder, like the original Golden Age comics character, brought a more thick-skinned approach to Lois — in Adams terms, it was more Charlene Fleming than Giselle.

Which way Adams tilts the Superman character remains to be seen. Snyder does tell Boucher that, for all the attention to the original source material, he wants Lois, like Superman, to have a modern appeal, ‘relevant and real and ... empathetic to today’s audience.’

— Steven Zeitchik

twitter.com/ZeitchikLAT

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