The Fighter’s Amy Adams has KO’d the competition to nab the role of Lois Lane in director Zach Snyder’s upcoming Superman reboot for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. She  joins a quickly growing cast that includes “Tudors” star Henry Cavill as the Man-of-Steel and Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as his adoptive folks on Earth Martha and Jonathan Kent.

Snyder tells Hero Complex:

There was a big, giant search for Lois. For us it was a big thing and obviously a really important role. We did a lot of auditioning but we had this meeting with Amy Adams and after that I just felt she was perfect for it.

It goes back to what I’ve said about Superman and making him really understandable for today. What’s important to us is making him relevant and real and making him empathetic to today’s audience so that we understand the decisions he makes. That applies to Lois as well. She has to be in the same universe as him [in tone and substance].

Adams, a three-time Oscar nominee for her supporting roles in Junebug, Doubt, and last year’s The Fighter, doesn’t have a lot of genre creds to her name. She did, however, guest star in a 2001 episode of “Smallville” entitled “The Craving,” in which she played Jodi Melville, a former-fattie–turned-cannibal that Superman must stop.