10 celebs whose star fizzled out (+Photos)

7. Brandon Routh

If going from television to romantic comedies is making it big for female actors, then going from television to playing superheroes is making it big for males. Even some of the most tenured actors in Hollywood have only just been offered these coveted parts (Ben Affleck as Batman). That’s why it came as a bit of a shock to everyone when relative nobody Brandon Routh was cast as superhero-of-them-all, Superman, in 2006’sSuperman Returns. Unfortunately for Routh, although Superman may have returned, he would not. He only did one movie before being replaced with Henry Cavill (a Brit as Superman…) He was hot for, like, a minute, until people got over that scene where he was shot in the eye and the bullet crumpled like a tin can.