It's a bad line http://xtube.in.net/ xtube.com  Shortly before Coming Home was released, he was offered the role of Superman (which eventually went to Christopher Reeve). “They were looking for a bankable person and they had heard that I was going to get some attention for Coming Home,” he says. In a meeting with the film’s director, Richard Donner, Voight voiced his concern that he wasn’t muscular enough to play the superhero.