August 6, 2012: Could "Man of Steel" Feature an Appearance of Metallo?

Ever since photos surfaced several months ago from Plano, IL of an actor wearing a CGI suit standing alongside actress Antje Traue's character, Faora on the "Smallville" set of "Man of Steel", fans have wondered who the mysterious character may turn out to be.

According to a recent update on IMDB, it may be none other than the villian Metallo.

In the IMDB full-cast listing for "Man of Steel", former "Battlestar Galactica" star Tahmoh Penikett was originally listed as playing a character in the Zack Synder Superman reboot by the name of Emerson. That has now been updated to show that Penikett is actually playing a character named Henry Ackerdson.

What is interesting about the Ackerdson character is that he was previously featured, if only briefly, in the 2012 Warner Home Video animated feature-film, "Justice League: Doom." In the film, Ackerdson is shown as a recently fired White House journalist who is about to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of the Daily Planet building. When Superman arrives to talk him out of it, Ackerdson reveals himself to actually be Metallo in disguise who promptly shoots the Man of Steel with a Kryptonite bullet.

A CGI suit would almost certainly need to be used in order to create a proper rendition of Metallo for the big screen. For the time being however, it remains to be seen if the Henry Ackerdson character in "Man of Steel" will indeed be based upon the one from "Justice League: Doom".

"Man of Steel" stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni and Russell Crowe.

The film opens nationwide on June 14, 2013.