Russell Crowe has signed on to play Jor-El, Superman’s father – in ‘Man of Steel’, the reboot helmed by Zack Snyder!

The cast for Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot film, “Man of Steel,” got even deeper and more accomplished on Wednesday, as Oscar winner Russell Crowe is set to join the star-studded epic, Variety reports.

Crowe would play Jor-El, Superman’s biological father from Krypton. In the Christopher Reeve-starring movies, Jor-El, played by Marlon Brando, appears in the crystals in Superman’s arctic hideaway, though there’s plenty of other options for both birth scenes and flashbacks.

Snyder emphasized the ability to move away from those films in a March interview with the Los Angeles Times.

“Literally, the one thing that everyone can start to think about is that we’re making a movie that finally goes with the approach that there’s been no other Superman movies,” Snyder told the paper. “If you look at ‘Batman Begins,’ there’s that structure: there’s the canon that we know about and respect, but on other hand there’s this approach that pre-supposes that there haven’t been any other movies. In every aspect of design and of story, the whole thing is very much from that perspective of ‘Respect the canon but don’t be a slave to the movies.’”

Crowe will join Kevin Costner, who plays Clark Kent’s earth-bound dad, as fathers to the eventual Superman, to be played by “Immortals” star Henry Cavill. Diane Lane will play Ma Kent, while Amy Adams is perfectly cast as Lois Lane.

On the evil side of things, “Boardwalk Empire” star Michael Shannon will take on the role of General Zod.

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Last night, Russell Crowe went on an explosive tirade against circumcision that some have viewed as anti-Jewish.

Crowe tweeted, “Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect.”

After his remark, several followers piped up saying they believe circumcision should be done for hygienic reasons, but that seemed ot infuriate the actor even more! ”Hygenic? Why don’t you sew up your a** then?”

Next, the Oscar winner tweeted at his The Man with the Iron Fists writer/producer Eli Roth, ”many jewish friends, I love my Jewish friends, I love the apples and the honey and the funny little hats but stop cutting yr babies.”

Crowe added, “if u feel it is yr right 2 cut things off yr babies please unfollow and f**k off, I’ll take attentive parenting over barbarism.”

While Roth joking replied, “You didn’t seem to be complaining when I was recutting you this afternoon,” Crowe must have realized he may have insulted some Jews with his opposition to circumcision and calling the religious garment of yarmulkes “funny little hats,” because he later deleted his tweets and apologized.

This morning Crowe wrote, “I have a deep and abiding love for all people of all nationalities, I’m very sorry that I have said things on here that have caused distress… My personal beliefs aside I realize that some will interpret this debate as me mocking the rituals and traditions of others. I am very sorry.”

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Russell Crowe enjoyed lunch at Euro Café in Beverly Hills, California on November 18, 2010 with a group of guy pals. Russell’s movie “The Next Three Days” is due to hit theater on Friday and he attended a special screening for the film Tuesday night.

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I’m liking his new look! He looks different, hotter even! Now if he can just stay away from crappy romantic comedies, everything would be better!

Here are a bunch of celebs at the premiere of Russell Crowe’s new movie, “The Next Three Days”.

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Russell Crowe yesterday was forced to deny he was dead following bogus reports he had plunged off a mountain while filming in Austria. A rep for the “Robin Hood” star said the rumor that he had fallen more than 50 feet to his death in the mountains near Kitzbuhel at 4:30 a.m. yesterday were “not true.” The rumor, started by a fake news Web site, spread like wildfire and was reported by New York radio station Z100.

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Russell Crowe stormed out of an interview with the BBC after he was accused of making Robin Hood sound Irish in his latest film.

Snapped the actor, who was born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, “You’ve got dead ears, mate — seriously dead ears if you think there’s an Irish accent.”

When asked by art critic Mark Lawson if he meant to have a Northern Irish accent, the actor, 46, sniped, “No I was going for an Italian … missed it? F–k me.”

The last straw was when Lawson asked Crowe if he wanted to say his famous Gladiator line, “I’ll take my revenge in this life or the next” in Hood, which hits theaters Friday.

On his way out, Crowe muttered, “I don’t get the Irish thing by the way. I don’t get it at all.”

Crowe has said in prior interviews that he was trying to switch up the outlaw’s accent, making his character sound as if he was from the Yorkshire region of Britain, where scholars speculate he may have once lived, instead of Nottingham, where he was always based according to legend.

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Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe will bring some red carpet glamour to the south of France later as Robin Hood opens the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.

The latest retelling of the legendary outlaw, from director Sir Ridley Scott, is showing out of competition.

Other highlights at the 12-day event include Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel called Money Never Sleeps.

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