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Christopher Reeve remains the definitive big screen Superman to this day, but his Clark Kent is just as legendary. For the Man of Steel's alter-ego, Reeve actually drew from classic Hollywood star Cary Grant's performance in 1938's "Bringing Up Baby," in which Grant clearly provides the lineaments of the diffident Clark Kent audiences came to love in the late '70s.

In 2025, James Gunn's charming crowd-pleaser "Superman" reintroduced us to the legendary hero in the form of David Corenswet's kinda goofy version of the character. The film was a hit, bringing in $615 million and becoming the biggest comic book movie of 2025 at the box office . But even with that success, "Superman" didn't feel like the kind of cultural event bef

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