[1][2] Actress Amy Adams was cast as Lois Lane in the 2013 Superman reboot film Man of Steel alongside Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Superman, directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Christopher Nolan.

[4] Screenwriter Chris Terrio, who worked on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair that Lois' arc in Batman v Superman, especially her "I'm not a lady, I'm a journalist" line while interviewing General Armajah, pays tribute to real-life journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed on assignment while covering the Siege of Homs in the Syrian civil war.

[10] After the release of the theatrical cut of Justice League, Adams mentioned in early 2020 that she was open to reprising her role as Lois Lane, but has also "accepted" that Warner Bros. may be "moving in a different direction".

[12] As portrayed in the DC Extended Universe, Lois had won the Pulitzer Prize for her work some time before the events of Man of Steel, with the screenplay also mentioning her stint as an embedded reporter with the First Infantry Division of the U.S.

When putting aside her job description, Lois is shown to be kind and fair, and after her first meeting with Clark Kent, she is so smitten with his selfless heroics, as well as the childhood pain that he had endured all his life, that she decides to drop what could have been the biggest story in modern human history for him.

Lois is, however, shown to be smarter than in the comics and past film depictions, almost immediately deducing Superman's secret identity and piecing together context clues with ease while investigating cases.

[4] In 2013, Lane is sent to cover the discovery of a mysterious craft in Northern Canada for the Daily Planet, meeting up with Col. Nathan Hardy, Dr. Emil Hamilton, and General Calvin Swanwick at a U.S. military installation.

Kent comes to her aid and cauterizes her wound with his heat vision, then returns her to safety before flying the ship off with a key given to him by his biological father, Jor-El.

She plans to publish an article about her mysterious rescuer for the Planet, and when her superior Perry White rebuffs her story, she leaks it to Glenn Woodburn, a tabloid reporter.

Clark explains Jonathan's sacrifice to keep his identity a secret and persuades Lois to drop the story, telling her that it is not the time to reveal himself.

Lane informs Kent, now nicknamed "Superman" at her suggestion, and the military on how to send Zod and his troops back to the Phantom Zone when they begin to terraform Earth into Krypton-like conditions.

She accompanies Hardy and Hamilton on an air-carrier with the spacecraft that brought Kent to Earth, intending to activate that ship with Jor-El's key and drop it on Zod's mothership.

In the aftermath of the battle, Kent gets a job at the Planet in order to get closer to action while discreetly maintaining his civilian identity, and Lane welcomes him to the news agency.

She brings this to White, but he dissuades her from publishing the article to prevent Lex Luthor from "suing the Daily Planet out of existence" even if Lane is correct.

Lois later covers Superman's public trial at the United States Capitol, but a bomb planted there by Luthor explodes, killing hundreds inside.

He brings Lane to the top of LexCorp Tower and taunts her before pushing her off the skyscraper, but Superman arrives in time to save her before confronting Luthor.

After resurfacing, Kent bides goodbye to Lane before sacrificing himself to kill the monster with the spear, with the kryptonite allowing Doomsday to fatally stab Superman in return.

Lane writes a cover-up story saying that Kent also died in the battle covering it in order to protect his identity as Superman, while Luthor is arrested for his crimes.

Sometime later, Lane spontaneously witnesses the Justice League resurrect Superman through the Mother Boxes, and calms an angry, amnesiac Kent before leaving with him to Smallville, where he regains his memories and they confirm their engagement.

While Adams' performance itself was praised for the most part, critics pointed out certain elements of her character that were poorly executed such as a perceived lack of consistency in her characterization and limited screen time.

[19] In the theatrical release of Justice League, Lois is described as being "reduced to a bystander" by Darby Harn of Comic Book Resources and "wasted in a thankless supporting role" despite providing emotional resonance to the film by Tim Grierson of Screen International.

[16][20] The plot description and characterization were adapted from Lois Lane at the DC Extended Universe Wiki, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license.