In the years between Superman Returns and the announcement that the movie franchise would be going in a “different direction” that would not require his continued services, Routh’s movie career—a cameo role in Kevin Smith’s Zack And Miri Make A Porno, a glorified cameo in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, a role that was cut out of the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation The Informers—didn’t come to much, but he must have hit it off with the Will & Grace crew when he guest starred on that sitcom back in 2004. David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, the creators of Will & Grace, have cast him in their new CBS pilot Partners, Deadline is reporting. The new comedy is about a couple of friends and business partners, one of whom is heterosexual, and one of whom is—wait for it—gay! Michael Urie, who was Marc St. James on Ugly Betty, will play the latter role, and Routh will play his steady boyfriend. Playing a supporting character in a sitcom may sound like a comedown for a guy who, at 25, was handed the biggest movie role in the world, but if you’ve seen the Ben Affleck film Hollywoodland—and somebody must have—you know that, by the standards set by previous Superman actors, he’s getting off easy.