{"id":3546,"date":"2011-06-24T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:53:54","slug":"superman-casts-in-the-burbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"SUPERMAN casts in the &#8216;burbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Luckily our man <strong>Don May, Jr.<\/strong>, of <strong>Synapse Films<\/strong> posted on <strong>Facebook <\/strong>about this week\u2019s casting calls in Chicagoland for the impending production of <strong>Warner Bros.<\/strong> and <strong>Legendary Pictures\u2019 SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL<\/strong>, otherwise we would have forgotten to pass along an update. To be directed by <strong>WATCHMEN <\/strong>and <strong>SUCKER PUNCH<\/strong> hotshot <strong>Zach Snyder<\/strong>, this <strong>SUPERMAN<\/strong> will star <strong>Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane<\/strong>, and <strong>Michael Shannon<\/strong> in yet another retelling of the iconic <strong>DC Comics<\/strong> hero\u2019s origin, which shouldn\u2019t dissuade you from attempting to get in on the action! First <a title=\"Open casting for SUPERMAN movie on June 25 in Chicago :: Yahoo! News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ac\/20110622\/us_ac\/8677139_open_casting_call_in_chicago_on_june_25_for_new_superman_movie\" target=\"_blank\">check out this wise if cheeky \u201cdos and don\u2019ts\u201d of extras behavior<\/a> by <strong>Patricia Batson<\/strong> on <strong>Yahoo! News<\/strong>, and then <a title=\"AUTUMN FROST :: Official Casting Site\" href=\"http:\/\/afbackground.com\/submit\" target=\"_blank\">visit this \u201c<strong>Autumn Frost<\/strong>\u201d Web page<\/a> for contact information. (We assume the name is a ruse to deflect casual fame seekers in the tradition of <strong>Lucasfilm<\/strong>\u2019s 1982 horror flick \u201cBlue Harvest,\u201d a.k.a. <strong>RETURN OF THE JEDI<\/strong>.) On-site auditions have already taken place on <strong>June 18<\/strong> in <strong>Naperville<\/strong>, right next to <strong>Aurora <\/strong>where your humble editor lived his high school years, and <strong>June 22<\/strong> in west suburban <strong>Plano<\/strong>, the small town in which he grew up, with one more scheduled for tomorrow, <strong>Saturday, June 25<\/strong>, at <strong>Chicago Academy of the Arts, 1010 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL<\/strong>, from <strong>11 a.m.<\/strong> to <strong>4 p.m.<\/strong> Interested parties can also apply on-line at the above \u201cAutumn Frost\u201d link. Good luck, super-talent!<\/p>\n<p>~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to get your background mojo on, kids, for SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL might just make a super extra out of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376,11,15],"tags":[740,289,741],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gone-hollywood","category-job-opportunities","category-media-coverage","tag-superman-man-of-steel","tag-warner-bros","tag-zach-snyder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}