Henry Cavill the show credit for bolstering his career: "It's done the most for me to date. [...] Now that there's an audience somewhere in America that's aware of who I am, I have more sell-ability, because of The Tudors." "Entertainment Weekly" named him the "Most Dashing Duke" and praised his work on "The Tudors" for displaying "charm, depth and a killer bod". Cavill had been set to play Superman in McG's 2004 film, "Superman: Flyby". However, McG pulled out of the project and direction was taken over by director Bryan Singer, who recast Brandon Routh as the lead in "Superman Returns".
Hard to Be a God (2013 film) History of the Arkanar Massacre" (). The press has also mentioned the alternative title "The Carnage in Arkanare", and a film script published under the title "What said the tobacconist from Tobacco Street". Later, the title was reverted to "Hard to Be a God". Reception in the Russian media was mixed. However, "Hard to Be a God" received universal acclaim from English-language critics. Review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reports that 94% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 36 reviews with an average rating of 9.1/10. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to