PM #1
What I know
by Ybnormal21 on Wed Jan 16 2013 21:05:19
I haven't had a chance to speak to my brother again so I will update this when that happens.
It's 2 hours and 24 mins, the cut he was shown
All his powers are on full display, although no freeze breath was mentioned
Krypton is destroyed
Zod kills jor-el he is not killed in the planets destruction
Lois knows his secret pretty early on in the movie
Kryptonite is not used, but it has been discovered and is being studied
Three main battles take place with the last being in metropolis and a significant amount of the city is destroyed between the gravity ray that zod uses on the city and the final battle with superman and the robot space force
Faora is killed, zod is taken to the prison planet.. Now left for superman to manage (I guess it's where he will take future super villains) that's what's implied in the movie
Lex is mentioned twice but never shown
No cameos from other heroes
Brainiac is mentioned but never shown
Krypton is described as more of a futuristic city.. No ice crystals at all, although he said most of kryptons effects were unfinished
There is a robot army that zod brings to earth. They were with him on the prison vessel and he reprograms them to serve him. They were originally designed to be guards on the prison planet (phantom zone) where zod was being taken.
I believe my brother said there were around 30 or so with one being bigger and stronger than the others.. I guess like the lead robot. When it's destroyed by superman zod takes the armor and designs a suit with it to aid him in battle with superman
That's all I can think of right off the top my head. I'll talk with him tomorrow and get some more info. Thanks for being positive and you can share what you like.
PM #2
A few new details
by Ybnormal21 on Thu Jan 17 2013 12:44:27
I just spoke with my brother for a few mins over the phone. It seems snyder is busy cutting another trailer.. Idk when it will come out.. But that's what their working on at the moment.
He claims Shannon's zod is probably going to end up being one of the greatest movie villains on screen
He says that he's amazingly well written
Shannon gives the best performance of the movie, and he has just as much screen time as Cavill
Cavill looks really good in the suit.. He's a massive presence on screen and he looks like superman st8 out of a comic book
The colors look different on the suit than what we've seen.. I'm not sure if its cgi enhanced or just the lighting, but its a lot brighter and vibrant looking in the actual movie footage
Zod wears a similar suit but basically all black.. He does have a cape when he's first shown wearing his suit, but mostly he's shown without it
The quick shot of superman flying down the building towards zod to do battle is from the final fight scene and there's an epic collision that shatters windows and shakes buildings when that clash
He used the words epic every time he described an action sequence
The movie goes pretty deep into trying to understand how it would go if these aliens just showed up one day out of nowhere
There is definitely a Nolon feel to the movie
The military plays a large role in the movie.. There is experiments going on behind the scenes
Metallo is never mentioned or shown but there is a scene with an injured airforce pilot where they talk about using him for a secret project and the kryptonite is mentioned, although never referred to as such, it's called the meteorite
PM #3
This what I got so far
by Ybnormal21 on Thu Jan 17 2013 16:12:53
I had a conversation with him just now and I tried to get all your questions answered.
The budget was initially 185 million but later increased to 215 after Snyder showed higher ups his quick story boards ideas of some of the action sequences he had planned for the film. It was later increased to 235 million to account for extra cgi cost and the added 3D.
The movie is more massive than you can imagine with huge sets built and amazingly shot action sequences. Snyder makes great use of every penny in the budget. The only thing he can compare this to is the action in the avengers, although he claims this is better shot and feels more real.
The original script only had 2 main battles the third was added by Snyder himself.
Jonathan kent dies, Clark is fully grown at the time, but not yet superman.
Zod does not kill Jonathan, although in the original script he did. Zod does kill several military personal and civilians in the movie. The loss of life gravely effects superman.
The robots, except for the main guard, are disposed of very easily.. If your expecting a huge scene with Sm fighting all these robots you will not get it. Their all taken care of at one time and very easily using his heat vision.
He is called superman in the movie but not at first, he's called the alien originally. Lois is the first to call him superman and the name catches on.
He learns of his origins in different ways. Jonathan is the first to tell him where he came from after his powers start to show up. After discovering his hidden ship Jonathan tells him more about his origins and gives him the key that was found with it. Clark also triggers a hologram message from Jor-el using the key that explains details about his home world.
Later in the film after Clark opens up the fortress he talks with another hologram of jor-el and discovers the suit and how it works and the source of his powers on earth.
Faora is killed by Zod.
The prison planet is an actual planet. It's smaller though and described as something like a moon to another planet, although very far away from krypton itself.
A scientific explanation is given for all supermans powers and it grounds this movie and makes it feel even more real, or as real as a movie about a super powered alien can be.
There's a huge twist at the end of the movie that I'm trying to get out of him now. Will update you later.
lastly the suit will be nano tech like the new 52 comics
