Brandon Routh’s got the ‘Ick’
In this Summer of Superman Brandon Routh is without superpowers as he battles the creeping killing Ick Back in the Superman Returns Routh won global recognition as the Man of Steel battling Lex Luthor and romancing Lois Lane Ick surprisingly begins back then with Routh and co-star Mena Suvari American Beauty looking years younger Because they re playing high school sweethearts back in the day before jumping to in the current era in the all-American small town of Eastbrook As a teen Routh s Hank Wallace lost a promising pro-football career with a crippling injury Now he s an ineffective high school science facilitator with a telltale limp Hank is not happy He had no backup plan Routh explained in a video interview So he s just in Eastbrook down and out As the icky Ick mutates from being a benign vine-like upsurge to a murderous alien entity Hank might have a surprising unexpected relationship with his attendee Grace Malina Pauli Weissman who just happens to be the daughter of Suvari s Staci his high school romance I m not really into horror Routh allowed But I do enjoy horror comedy and monster movies As I learned more about writer-director Joseph Kahn and saw more of his work I was I get this This is going to be fantastic How we re going to do it in this budget But it s fantastic As to how he and Suvari so effectively lost years We first did all the scenes that are in the script They put makeup on us and tried to make us look a little bit or me anyway younger the best they could As a backup And I adjusted my voice up which was one of the majority of constant refrains from Joseph Younger A younger voice Then we did a couple different light camera scans with the VFX association in Houston They inquired if I had any footage of myself in my early s which I didn t really other than photos Because I wasn t working as an actor as much as Mena was They compiled as best they could from old footage and the scans they did I sat in front of my camera and did chosen turns the kind of things that I used to do at Sony back during Superman Then they had this big huge machine that you had to get into as this like an octopus arm goes around scanning your face and all Anyway now you can do it with your iPhone I guess As for what s next Whatever it may bring he explained Ick allows people to see me in this new light up on the screen for the first time in quite a scant years in a starring movie Ick screens Sunday Monday and Tuesday as a Fathom Event at the AMC Boston Common and suburban theaters Mena Suvari in a scene from Ick Photo courtesy Fathom Entertainment
