All Things Superman: An Open Discussion - Part 4

[Godzilla2014]

actually, I hope they do explore that to an extent. in a realistic manner, of course.

In many ways, that is what Zod would represent, and he'd act as a foil to Superman.

Zod has all the powers of Superman ( maybe even more/different powers ), but, presumably, he intends to conquer or control the world. The public would associate Superman with Zod ( and Lex would help fan this ) and rightfully be afraid of Supes.

I want Supes to have to EARN the public's trust through his actions.

makes it more challenging and interesting than if they just automatically loved/accepted him.

Wholeheartedly agree!

I think it would be cool if Zod had something to do with Krypton's destruction. That would really piss off Supes.

"You destroyed Krypton...I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY EARTH!"

Well let's just say that alcohol was involved.t:

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Heres how the reactions of people in the movie should differ from the first movie.
SMTM
"Thank you helping us capture this criminal, alien stranger"


MOS
"WHAT THE **** ARE YOU? DONT MOVE, DONT ******* MOVE!!!!"


SMTM
"Everyone, look in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, Its Superman, and he's come to save us"

MOS
"Whats that?...RUN FOR YOUR ******* LIVES"

I think it would be cool if Zod had something to do with Krypton's destruction. That would really piss off Supes.

"You destroyed Krypton...I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY EARTH!"

I agree, think that might be a nice angle.

I had this image in my mind of Krypton shaking and beginning to crumble, and someone running to find Jor-el to tell him that he was right about Zod.

Have him put the baby in the spaceship, give Lara the instructions, kiss baby and mother goodbye, tell her he loves her and then run off to find Zod and confront him.

Then he finds him with Faora, about to escape through the phantom zone, and they have a bit of a show down struggle before they succeed in escaping and leaving Jor-el to his doom.

As the Phantom Zone shuts, Jor-el looks up to see the spaceship carrying his child heading off into space.

 

[BrlntDsgse]

I think it would be cool if Zod had something to do with Krypton's destruction. That would really piss off Supes.

"You destroyed Krypton...I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY EARTH!"

Meh. I actually prefer kind of the opposite. I really liked Geoff John's take on Zod, that he was actually an ally of Jor-El at first, since he beleived Jor-El's predictions of doom for Krypton. Then when the ruling council refused to listen, he attempted a violent overthrow of Krypton's government, which Jor-El thought was going too far. It gives some nice depth to Zod, giving him an honorable motivation, but extreme methods. It would also help to distance this version a little bit more from SII's Zod, who was just straight-up evil. I say save the role of having something to do with Krypton's destruction for Brainiac in a sequel. Portray him pretty much like in STAS, as the artificial intelligence system that pretty much runs Kryptons infrastructure, and influences the council to ignore Jor-El's warnings because he wants to save himself.


If they REALLY want a great build-up, then have Zod's storyline building up to Brainiac, and give Brainiac the origin of being an AI that wasn't created on Krypton but rather discovered by Kryptonians on a crashed space probe from elsewhere in the universe, his true origins unknown to even Brainiac himself. They study Brainiac and then over the years, begin to trust and use him to help run Krypton, even though Brainiac himself is really using THEM. He simply wants to catalogue all their vast scientific knowledge and then leave them to be destroyed in Krypton's impending explosion, which he discovers early on. Jor-El also eventually discovers that the planet will explode from ancient internal pressures, and when he attempts to use Brainiac to help study the crisis, he finds that Brainiac has known of it for some time and has hidden it from the Council. Knowing that he is outmatched by Brainiac, this is when Jor-El recruits the help of General Zod, a colleague of his who is active in the advanced military science division. With the help of Zod's resources Jor-El begins to develop the Eradicator, his own sentient AI, that he intends to use like a computer virus to purge Brainiac from all Kryptonian systems. But before he can finish development, Zod grows tired of waiting and launches a full scale coup d'etat, attacking the capital city of Kandor. Brainiac uses this attack as a ruse, secretly miniaturising the entire city to keep as a specimen, claiming that it was atomized and framing Zod for it's destruction. Jor-El, horrified by what he believes Zod has done, and wanting to atone for what he sees as his own part in it, assists in the capture of Zod and his banishment to the Phantom Zone, thus earning Zod's eternal hatred. But of course by now, it is too late for Jor-El to do anything about the fate of Krypton. His Eradicator AI is not complete. He must now focus on outfitting the experimental star-drive he was developing onto a small escape craft for his infant son. Hours from Krypton's destruction, Jor-El activates the incomplete Eradicator in an attempt to prevent Brainiac from also escaping Krypton, but this is unsuccessful. Brainiac is able to upload himself to an escape craft and now knows about both the Eradicator and Jor-El's plan to save his son. Jor-El places his son into the small escape rocket, and uploads the Eradicator program onto a holographic device, sending it with Kal-El, so that he can one day learn of his origins. The rocket is sent hurtling into hyper-space towards the planet Earth and Brainiac,now in a grotesque, tentacled, bio-tech android body watches from orbit, recording the planet's destruction and vowing to track down the child someday and claim the secrets of the Eradicator for his own study............

TO BE CONTINUED...

 

[Enlil]

First pic of the Superman Suit:
http://cinewebradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3143remiere-photo-de-superman-en-costume-&catid=29:the-news&Itemid=41

 

[BrlntDsgse]

PART 2....

And so Both Kal-El and Brainiac escape the death of Krypton. Kal-El grows up on Earth, raised by the Kents as their son Clark,eventually becoming Superman, and facing a freed General Zod and his Lieutenants, who he manages to defeat, but not before Zod is able to tell him more about his origins and the truth about Brainiac and what truly happened to Kandor.
In his attempt to conquer Earth and recreate the glory of Krypton, Zod even used the Eradicator(which Jor-El DNA coded so that only he and Zod could operate) to create a fortress full of Kryptonian technology at the Arctic circle, which after his defeat Superman uses for his own. However, this now active Kryptonian tech has finally alerted the malevolent A.I. Brainiac as to Kal-El's whereabouts. Brainiac comes to Earth in a sequel and confronts Superman, demanding the Eradicator device. In the course of his clashes with Brainiac through the film, Superman is able to rescue the bottled city of Kandor, and it's only non-miniaturized resident, his own cousin Kara Zor-El, who Brainiac has kept in stasis all these years, attempting to use her genetic relation to Jor-El to bypass the Eradicator's DNA coding in case he ever found it. Superman eventually defeats Brainiac, but also over the course of the film, Brainiac reveals to Superman his true purpose.....Krypton is not the only world he has pillaged for knowledge.....he has done so many times for nearly a millennia. He tells Kal-El that he is simply following his original programming, to gather all scientific and technical knowledge from any advanced races he encounters, and then eliminating the holders of that knowledge. Brainiac does not even know WHO originally programmed him or WHERE he originated from, only that his programming requires him to continue to gather knowledge from the known universe until he either finds or is himself able to calculate a certain.......EQUATION. Naturally, Brainiac's defeat by Superman does not go unnoticed.


And that's just off the top of my head....t: So, whattaya think?

 

[SuperDaniel]

That doesnt look like Cavill at all. Maybe a concept art? The suit looks AMAZING, though, especially the cape.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Hurm...]

Goddamn! Loving this new suit.

 

[Superman2007]

Phenomenal....

 

[Lead Cenobite]

I love the chaos around him and how calm and collected he is. See, Superman doesn't have to be burning with rage to look badass.

 

[BrlntDsgse]

Dammit, just after I posted 2 long posts w/all my thoughts for Zod and Brainiac up above and then the first costume pic hits. All that typing and composing my thoughts and within a few hours it'll be buried 10 pages deep and then sent off to die by the dreaded thread manager, lol.

BTW, too much texture notwithstanding, I'm loving the costume! :

 

[Solidus]

Love the new suit, really really love the big \S/ on his chest. Man I'm really impressed how different he looks as Superman, I could see it being really different in the looks between Supes and Clark.

 

[chamber-music]

Damn Cavills Superman looks Badass enough to hang with Bales Batman.

 

[Rodrigo90]

PART 2....

And so Both Kal-El and Brainiac escape the death of Krypton. Kal-El grows up on Earth, raised by the Kents as their son Clark,eventually becoming Superman, and facing a freed General Zod and his Lieutenants, who he manages to defeat, but not before Zod is able to tell him more about his origins and the truth about Brainiac and what truly happened to Kandor.
In his attempt to conquer Earth and recreate the glory of Krypton, Zod even used the Eradicator(which Jor-El DNA coded so that only he and Zod could operate) to create a fortress full of Kryptonian technology at the Arctic circle, which after his defeat Superman uses for his own. However, this now active Kryptonian tech has finally alerted the malevolent A.I. Brainiac as to Kal-El's whereabouts. Brainiac comes to Earth in a sequel and confronts Superman, demanding the Eradicator device. In the course of his clashes with Brainiac through the film, Superman is able to rescue the bottled city of Kandor, and it's only non-miniaturized resident, his own cousin Kara Zor-El, who Brainiac has kept in stasis all these years, attempting to use her genetic relation to Jor-El to bypass the Eradicator's DNA coding in case he ever found it. Superman eventually defeats Brainiac, but also over the course of the film, Brainiac reveals to Superman his true purpose.....Krypton is not the only world he has pillaged for knowledge.....he has done so many times for nearly a millennia. He tells Kal-El that he is simply following his original programming, to gather all scientific and technical knowledge from any advanced races he encounters, and then eliminating the holders of that knowledge. Brainiac does not even know WHO originally programmed him or WHERE he originated from, only that his programming requires him to continue to gather knowledge from the known universe until he either finds or is himself able to calculate a certain.......EQUATION. Naturally, Brainiac's defeat by Superman does not go unnoticed.


And that's just off the top of my head....t: So, whattaya think?

I think its knocked my little idea out of the galaxy

 

[Sabaoth]

I was wrong.
No armor.
It does looks like the trunks are there in the shadows.
Awesome first picture!
Kudos to Snyder and co. for not blowing it like Singer did with the first SR pic.
I hope we get a full shot soon!

 

[KyleDW2]

I was wrong.
No armor.
It does looks like the trunks are there in the shadows.
Awesome first picture!
Kudos to Snyder and co. for not blowing it like Singer did with the first SR pic.
I hope we get a full shot soon!

Actually, someone cranked up the brightness of the picture and it looks like Superman has no bright red man panties. Its just a gold circle and a red belt.

 

[batsfan81]

My mind cant wrap around the awesomeness of everything going on. A Batman and Supes film , filming at the same time. Bane revealed on set, possibly Catwoman this week and now Supes revealed. Wow just WOW.

 

[Mr. Thing]

I won't be really disappointed if there is no trunks, because the rest of the suit looks awesome.

I love the whole Fleischer vibe.

 

[DaJanksta]

I want to see a render of the new shield. The top right of the s has a good slant to it

 

[Solidus]

Man I can't believe I gotta wait 22 more months for this lol. But this has me giddy!

 

[Prison Mike]

I love the chaos around him and how calm and collected he is. See, Superman doesn't have to be burning with rage to look badass.

He looks pissed off to me.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

There's still a ways to go before "pissed off" becomes "burning with rage".

 

[DyeLorean]

I like it!
The S looks good, and the cape reminds me of the film version of Thor.

 

[Prison Mike]

I like that the cape looks like a cape and not a fruit roll up.

 

[Mr. Thing]

I think this film is going to look stunning. Being a bit obvious, I mean it is Snyder, but really, looking at the pic...this film is going to look good.