In the early ’00s, Warner Bros. was desperately trying to get a Superman reboot off the ground. This was after the studio canceled Tim Burton’s Superman Lives in the ’90s, and they were back at square one. They went to Alias and Lost co-creator J.J. Abrams, who developed a script called Superman: Flyby , that would have reintroduced the Man of Steel for the 21st century. Most of the biggest actors of that era auditioned to play Superman, including Brendan Fraser, fresh off the success of The Mummy films. While promoting his film Rental Family on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast (via Deadline ), Fraser talked about what it was like almost being Clark Kent, and the “Shakespearean” J.J. Abrams version he loved:

I loved that screenplay. They let me read it. They locked m

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