From STAR WARS Insider Magazine; by Benjamin Harper; issue number 069, August 2003

… The Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) has a little gossip mill of it sown. Again, we can neither confirm nor debunk this tidbit, but it was too good to pass up – Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) was rumored to be in the running to take up where Christopher Reeve left off in the title role as the Man o’Steel himself! Others in the running to star as Superman reportedly were Brendan Fraser, Paul Walker, and Matthew Bomer.