Forget the Justice League and DC Comics movie rumors for now, because we’re ready to just focus on the movies that have actually been made and will definitely be on large screens for us to view with our own eyes. Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel hits theaters on July 14, 2013, and the film is already being served with the lofty task of making us believe that Superman Returns never happened.
Seriously, I’m not just being a cynical jerkface, because that’s actually sort of the intention of Man of Steel. According to the film’s producer, Christopher Nolan, in a recent interview, he wants us to close our eyes, clear our minds and pretend like there has never been a Superman movie before. I have no problem doing this.
“We tried to approach this as though there’s never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I’m not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.”
Adding how important is for him to plunge into Clark Kent’s origins and depicting on screen in a very realistic way.
“Traditional Superman fans know what it’s all about, and they will hopefully love and associate with the character anyway. But the people who aren’t die-hard Superman fans still need to associate with the character, and that needs to have some realism in today’s world, certainly, in sense of a science as opposed to mythology attached to it as well.” (Via Shockya)
That might explain why in the newest Man of Steel poster released today, Superman is wearing handcuffs. Sure, you could argue that unless those handcuffs are made of kryptonite, they wouldn’t be able to hold Superman, but it’s because they want us to relate to Superman, the same way we relate to our meth addict cousin, G-Flavor, who keeps getting sent to prison. Oh well, I’ve got dibs on his egg nog this year.
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I’m seriously excited for this movie. Zach Snyder is a good director when he doesn’t write the story (Watchmen, 300) and the supporting cast (Shannon, Adams, Costner, Crowe, Fishbourne) is pretty stellar. Or am I just a huge nerd?
Right there with ya.
I’m afraid it’ll be another Death To Smoochy or North – fantastic casts; terrible movies.
I’m with you too. Sucker Punch showed how VISUALLY, Snyder can be amazing but he needs guidance like you said.
Nerd wrestling analogy time: Nolan is to Snyder as McMahon was to Russo
If this movie has more than one extended slo-mo sequence, I’m going to slowly get up, and slowly leave the theater
The only problem is that Superman makes for shitty modern movie character. I’m entirely convinced that a “Gritty” reboot of Superman (ala the Dark Knight series) won’t work just because the character is too much of a silly cartoon to be taken seriously. He’s from an entirely different era than modern superheros, so I almost feel like for a film to be good it’d have to be set in the late 1930s to work (done in the style of “Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow”—for example).
Either that or do what Alan Moore did in “Marvel Man” and basically explore the scary fascist Nietzschean underside of the superman mythos. Too bad Leni Riefenstahl is dead, she would have made a great Superman movie.
Do not besmirch Death To Smoochy. I will fight anyone that doesn’t agree that flick is the proverbial titties. GRRR SUBJECTIVE OPINIONS!!!
You shut your whore mouth Watchmen was awesome
@Bebop, I think he was saying he liked watchman, and he didnt like the films Snyder wrote himself (which I think is just Sucker Punch, which everyone seems to hate but I thought was rad as hell because I have the taste of a hyper middle school fanboy.)
@Bebop Oh yeah. I loved Watchmen. That opening set to The Times They Are A Changin’ is one of my favorite moments in any movie.
@Juan_Carlo I think this might be the movies problem. People see Superman as the bright silly cartoon, but when you read some of the stuff written recently and seen pretty much anything from the last season of Superman the animated series onward, you kinda see that he’s gotten a bit darker *fixes glasses, takes a puff of inhaler*
Sucker Punch was so unforgivably horrible in every respect that I’m not sure Zack Snyder could be trusted to deliver coffee on the set of a 200 billion dollar superhero reboot, let alone direct a film in which Superman is a filthy hobo with a sad dog who lets himself get cuffed by generic military guys so that he can be some gritty, “relatable” sad sack.
I really want to like this movie, and Sucker Punch/Owls aside the cast and crew are well qualified to deliver it, but every new bit of information is groan-inducing. And not the good kind that comes from, say, a post about Christina Hendricks’ breasts latest project.
This is what happens when you forgot to put on your manties.
So they took the poster from a still of the bootleg version of the film?
Dead on.
That poster looks EXACTLY like a shitty, telesynched, cam recording of a movie–right down to how the color is always washed out and darker at the edges.
I don’t think you nominate comments of the week by typing your approval as a reply, but I’m not gonna do it any other way, so hopefully this will start a trend. Nominated.
The lens flare really pulls that outfit together, I think.
So basically Nolan says, “Screw the fans we know they are suckers and will see it regardless. Oh, also midi-chlorians did it.”
I’m with you.
“Give me the Reagan.”–Superman at Supercuts
He just calls it “Cuts”
Why is he covered in basketball texture?
Because new Superman is literally grittier.
I never thought that Superman Returns was bad so much as it was bland and inconsequential.
Yes and yes. The opening scene was great, and then it was …. meh.
I appreciated Superman Returns for two things, Kevin Spacey and the fact that Singer wanted to continue the Reeve/Donner continuity. But yeah the rest of it…
Whoever got Kate Bosworth cast as Lois Lane should be slapped in the face really really really hard.
I think Singer cast Lois based on the Fleischer Studios cartoons, then forgot to make her sexy, because, you know, it’s a woman.
Superman getting persecuted against? Why, nobody has ever made a Superman is Jesus metaphor before. Ever. Totally original.
man of steal.
I really hope this film won’t be your standard alien in human form tries to fit in but when he shows glimpses of his amazing powers the military move in and capture him only to face a worse threat in another invading alien and allow him to prove his allegiance to earth (‘murica) by vanquishing the intended oppressor.
And he’s gotta have a Samsung smartphone.
In the sequel Supes designs an App that defeats Brainiac by putting him on every e-mail spam list in the universe. On his Samsung Galaxy Note while holding a Heineken of course.
It’s like you’re my pinky finger typing my p’s and l’s.
WE SUPERMAN NOW
I like Zack Snyder, and I like Christopher Nolan, but everything I’ve seen so far of this movie looks like it’s going to suck, and not in a fun way, but in a taking-itself-way-too-seriously kind of way. Like someone else said, Superman is just the wrong hero for a gritty reboot.
I kind of agree. I don’t necessarily think Superman couldn’t have been updated properly, just…they went about it in the wrong way (in terms of promotion, anyway). Superman isn’t a sad fishing boat hobo, he’s a lonely alien messiah guy (it’s a fine line). We don’t need him to be brought down to our level by mundane bullshit like “oh boy, he’s in handcuffs, he’s just like me!”. This isn’t politics, where we have to convince everyone that Superman is a down home guy who you would really want at a barbecue. We can relate to him in far more substantial and meaningful ways (i.e. on topics of leadership, morality, responsibility, the same stuff that makes any hero interesting).
Maybe it’s because I grew up watching the Richard Donner films, but I definitely got a bit of a nerd boner at the end of that old teaser where he’s tearing through the sound barrier and all. I just hope that they don’t give us a movie that’s 2 hours of beardy hobo and 15 minutes of Superman.
Also, everyone rags on Superman Returns and not without reason, but Brandon Routh played Clark Kent to perfection. I’m worried that this movie is going to completely re-invent Clark Kent as some kind of Twilight era brooding dipstick.
The military is an antagonist. Losing faith in Superman movie…