The DCU thread (exec. James Gunn, Peter Safran)

I've also heard that Madelyn Cline and Haley Lu Richardson have tested.

Nicholas Hoult is being looked at, but there are conflicting reports about whether it's for Superman himself, or for Lex Luthor.

Brosnahan's an obvious choice. Mackey would be an inspired one.

People acting like Cavill is the second coming of Christ will never fail to baffle/amuse me.

Coz this is a reboot and they want a fresh take with a fresh face who can dedicate at least a decade of his career. 

Hope Gunn really takes notes from Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman and stays true to the character's working class, idealistic roots. Too many writers have tried to mold Superman into a postmodern lens and imbue some sense of nihilism into the character ("wouldn't it be cool if Superman was evil?" bullshit) but that almost always just muddies him into a flatter version of Ozymandias from Watchmen. It's an inevitable byproduct of people treating him like an action figure, focusing solely on his powers rather than his character, and ignoring why his morality is aspirational or even exists in the first place. It's a lack of imagination for how a good, shining light character can work in the superhero realm but now that the pendulum is swinging from postmodernism to metamodernism maybe the appetite for such a character is here.

Seriously. I was always into comic books as a kid and he was always my least interested superhero.

Interesting point, since Zaslav is cutting left and right projects.