SFX: Zach Snyder talks Superman movie

[TX85]

If I had to guess at this point I would say that they are going to take a page from birthright and introduce Superman to a world that isn't so welcoming. I feel like in previous adaptations, society always accepted him with open arms no questions asked. In birthright it was different because the people felt fear and doubt toward him. Especially since Lex was trying to make him out to be an enemy of the planet. And it wasn't until he proved himself that people started to believe in him.

I'd like that!,sounds something Snyder&Nolan would do too.

 

[The Batman]

Well... having read the 2nd Abrams draft myself... Abrams' script ended up being pretty much traditional after the first draft. The main problem with Abrams' script in all of its forms is not the degree of traditionalism or the fans opinions. If that were the problem they wouldn't have that script greenlit for 3-4 years, like they had it. The main problem with all of the Abrams drafts is... it reads like it would cost 500 million to make. That thing was extremely ambitious in scope, and even after the re-writes of the 2nd and 3rd drafts, which made it a traditional Superman script, the main problem was budget. That's why McG wanting to make it in the US and not in Australia was such a big deal. The tax breaks at the time would've made that script significantly cheaper to film. WB did like that script, and despite what they say on the record... Singer used many concepts from the script and Abrams pitch (in the 2nd draft Krypton blew up but there were remains (Kandor) which Kal-El knew of and went to at the end of the script, the Returns story is actually part of Abrams pitch for a trilogy, which was blatantly copied by Singer throwing in a mish mash with the Donner film... not to mention concrete scenes lifted from the Abrams script like the plane rescue which is word for word the same scene or some of the young Clark scenes...). Singer's take was FAR from being original and being something that "he had been thinking for 10 years and got Donner's blessing for". When you know Abrams further drafts, his intentions and then see Singer's film... the impression is very much that he was hired to do a random Superman film and WB pointed him very much the direction they wanted. Then he added the Donner fetish to the mix...

Interesting. This sounds like Singer was brought in to rehash abrhams stuff, and make it cheaper, while throwing in the donner bits to win over fans.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Nobody really knows anything yet.

What are you talking about?!! We know...

Clark spends most of the movie traveling through Africa watching warfare from a distance, thinking about whether or not he should become Superman and help people.

Lindsay Lohan is play Ursa, who will be the main villain.

Lois Lane won't be in it.

Alice Eve is playing Cat Grant, who will be the main love interest.

Zod will appear.

Clark never dons the Superman costume in the movie.

 

[sweetre15]

You guys do remember the quote from this article right: http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a285987/snyder-promises-different-superman.html

"I won't say there's a break from the canon or anything like that, but there is definitely an approach that makes you go, 'Okay, that's a way to get at it.'"

He continued: "David is very respectful of the canon and stuff like that. It has its roots in the canon and again, like I say, it has a point of view about who he is. I'm being cryptic, I know, but it's the best I can do."

 

[Kal-El.9859]

you...i'm dying for more details to be released though

 

[7heBoss]

One thing that I personally think would be kind of cool to see is a pissed off Superman. I like the calm, collected, unwaveringly good Superman. However I always find it excited when Superman is pushed so far to the point where his eyes turn red and he goes into epic mode. I can just imagine Cavill(In Costume) on his knees holding and looking down at a dead loved one, obviously sad and emotional. Cavill then lifts his head and looks up at whomever with glowing red eyes super pissed and uncontrollably darts at him at a buggillion miles an hour busting through walls. It would be like the DC Universe Online Trailer.

 

[Kal-El.9859]

that would be awesome and I love that trailer

 

[Dark Knight]

An excerpt from SFX magazine

Just like a football coach tells his players that they need to be PHYSICAL....Snyder is saying the same thing and I agree.

Lets finally see Superman get down, dirty and physical onscreen with some epic, intense fight and action scenes!

 

[Dark Knight]

One thing that I personally think would be kind of cool to see is a pissed off Superman. I like the calm, collected, unwaveringly good Superman. However I always find it excited when Superman is pushed so far to the point where his eyes turn red and he goes into epic mode. I can just imagine Cavill(In Costume) on his knees holding and looking down at a dead loved one, obviously sad and emotional. Cavill then lifts his head and looks up at whomever with glowing red eyes super pissed and uncontrollably darts at him at a buggillion miles an hour busting through walls. It would be like the DC Universe Online Trailer.

Time for us to see Superman get pissed off onscreen!

I agree and I love that trailer as well.

 

[Dark Knight]

I would love to see that but, instead Wonder Woman, some fanboys.

Exactly!

 

[Kal-El.9859]

I'm certainly ready to see him beat the crap out of someone...I honestly don't think I can say it enough...SUPERMAN NEEDS TO BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF SOMEONE!!!!

 

[Lone]

I'm still not sold. Sorry, but seeing his previous body of work (which I like, but has nowhere near the tone I feel Superman should have) combined with his previous statements clearly admitting his own ineptitude with understanding the character, let alone how to apply him to a motion picture doesn't instill confidence.

He accurately captured the tone of 300 and Watchmen as far as I'm concerned. I have no worries he will nail the tone of Superman. Jim Lee's Superman to be exact.

If I had to guess at this point I would say that they are going to take a page from birthright and introduce Superman to a world that isn't so welcoming. I feel like in previous adaptations, society always accepted him with open arms no questions asked. In birthright it was different because the people felt fear and doubt toward him. Especially since Lex was trying to make him out to be an enemy of the planet. And it wasn't until he proved himself that people started to believe in him.

This. Let's face it, our world today is filled with distrust, fear and paranoia. You throw in the emergence of a godlike being from another planet into the mix who claims he's here to help and you've got an interesting story to tell.

I expect the military to take shots at Superman in this movie as well.

 

[ilovelamp18]

He accurately captured the tone of 300 and Watchmen as far as I'm concerned. I have no worries he will nail the tone of Superman. Jim Lee's Superman to be exact.



This. Let's face it, our world today is filled with distrust, fear and paranoia. You throw in the emergence of a godlike being from another planet into the mix who claims he's here to help and you've got an interesting story to tell.

I expect the military to take shots at Superman in this movie as well.

oh absolutely. people would try to shoot him or run away screaming. instead of caped wonder it would be cape fear.

 

[manofsteel4life]

I agree with everyone that they need to go all out, and there is no guarantee that we will get a sequel, but I personally don't want to see a really pissed off supes in the first movie. Like one of the posters posted that we have to know about supes in the first movie, and the second movie, we find out what makes him tick. That to me is my ideal way to handle his emotions effectively.

 

[El Payaso]

Well, every dorector say things like "we're doing things no one has seen before" and such. I'm still happy that - thanks to Nolan's involvement, I assume - they're exploring Superman's motivations instead of his super-feats alone. I don't trust Snyder when it's about fleshing out characters but if the script is good enough he might as well end up making a decent film. For now, that's enough for me.

 

[The Sage]

It kind of goes without saying that Superman will be physical in this movie, considering the director is Zack Snyder. So there will be plenty of action.

But my interest as a Superman fan and film watcher is what story is getting told and how the character will get portrayed? When is Snyder going to touch on that?

 

[afan]

A physical Superman....now that I like..... as it harkens back to my favorite portrayal of the Man of Steel, which would be The Adventures of Superman 50s TV series, particularly the first two years of the run. George Reeves played a very physical and bad ass Super-man of action.

 

[Alonsovich]

Interesting. This sounds like Singer was brought in to rehash abrhams stuff, and make it cheaper, while throwing in the donner bits to win over fans.

It's IMO exactly what happened. To put an example... the plane rescue sequence in Singer's film is almost the central action piece. In Abrams' script it's "just" his presentation to the world (Random detail: even the baseball stadium is in...). Abrams had on top of that three kryptonians as villains (named with other names... but esentially they're Zod, Ursa and Non... just with other names) with massive battles between them (a scene at the beginning where Superman picks up a construction crane and uses it as a baseball bat against them comes to mind)... that thing called for the complete destruction of a city through effects and creating a whole krypton (through CGI most likely)... really expensive stuff. That plane set piece in SR cost WB a big chunk of the budget to make (let's not say that when Singer came aboard that sequence was possibly so advanced in pre-production that he simply HAD to include it)... just that scene... just imagine how much could the rest of the script cost. Abrams' script was actually really liked by WB and it was ultimately not done in it's whole just because it was really too expensive to make. What Singer did is just a mish mash of it with Donner, stir the Martini and serve it... in a very unfortunate manner...

 

[GhostPoet]

It's nice to see we finally have a director that understands Superman. We might actually get a true Superman film for once. Here's hoping for LexCorp.

 

[sf2]

understand superman and be able to make a great superman movie are 2 different things.

 

[GreenKToo]

Personally, I want to see his suit ripped and the cape in tatters during the fight. with supes himself also bruised and bloody..That would really drive home the point how strong and tough the villain is.

But first, before the villain appears, show superman doing a few dramatic saves, things like saving folks from a highrise fire, or saving a sinking cruise ship or stopping a train crash, all without doing any damage to the suit or himself.

 

[afan]

For myself I'm tired of Superman saving people from passive fail threats, planes, trains, etc. I'm looking to see Superman save people by battling active threats, heavily armed and armored bank robbers, even fantastic sci-fi tech such as robots, etc.

Give me action and adventure!

 

[sf2]

yeah, fighting and saving should happen together! superman can handle multiple tasks at one time.

 

[Kal-El.9859]

he should definitely know how to multi-task

 

[BH/HHH]

Does he say anything else in the magazine or is it just something they've put on the site?