The hair dye industry needs to up its advertising budget

[seriousfic]

So I've seen some talk that Amy Adams should be playing Lana Lang, surely stemming from the fact that she has red hair. Which weirds me out, because I think Lana Lang is the last time a Superman movie needs? Maybe it's just that Smallville already did, what, eight years of Clark/Lana when you knew they weren't going to end up together, so I don't see what's so fascinating about that relationship that it demands a movie. There's plenty to do with the Clark/Lois/Superman triangle, and even Lois/Lex, before you get into cliched Betty & Veronica situations. There's Clark falling in love with Lois but Lois being in love with Superman, Lois falling in love with Clark 'for real,' the revelation of his secret identity, marriage... You could fill the obligatory trilogy with that, easy.

But Lana in an origin movie? It would smirk of prequelitis, when a movie focuses on bullshit that you know is extraneous to the larger story. As long as you're spending two hundred million dollars on a movie, why not cut to the chase?