According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eva Marie Saint will play Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Clark Kent/Superman in Bryan Singer's Superman film for Warner Bros. Pictures. Brandon Routh is playing Superman.

Saint, who starred in the Alfred Hitchcock classic North by Northwest, co-stars in Wayne Wang's Because of Winn-Dixie, to be released by 20th Century Fox on Feb. 18, and will also appear in Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking, to be released by Sony Pictures Classics in the fall.