All Things Superman: An Open Discussion - Part 4

[Solidus]

I love the cape, absolutely love it, just screams heroic.

 

[Sam]

I didnt expected anything less from Snyder. A kick-ass first picture!

 

[Rust]

Dunno if this was posted:


"Press Release

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have provided the first look at the new “Man of Steel,” revealing star Henry Cavill as Superman in the film from director Zack Snyder. The film also stars three-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (“The Fighter”) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (“Unfaithful”) and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (“Dances with Wolves”).

Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (“Revolutionary Road”), and Faora, Zod’s evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman’s native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s mother, played by Julia Ormond, and Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”).

Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy.

“Man of Steel” is being produced by Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer, from a story by Goyer and Nolan, based upon Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. Thomas Tull and Lloyd Phillips are serving as executive producers.

Currently in production, “Man of Steel” is slated for release on June 14, 2013 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company."



I guess everybody just got confirmed. Sounds like these are the main-players.

No Lex then? I'm guessing he's a background-player in this one.

 

[manofsteel4life]

Dunno if this was posted:


"Press Release

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have provided the first look at the new “Man of Steel,” revealing star Henry Cavill as Superman in the film from director Zack Snyder. The film also stars three-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (“The Fighter”) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (“Unfaithful”) and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (“Dances with Wolves”).

Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (“Revolutionary Road”), and Faora, Zod’s evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman’s native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s mother, played by Julia Ormond, and Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”).

Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy.

“Man of Steel” is being produced by Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer, from a story by Goyer and Nolan, based upon Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. Thomas Tull and Lloyd Phillips are serving as executive producers.

Currently in production, “Man of Steel” is slated for release on June 14, 2013 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company."



I guess everybody just got confirmed. Sounds like these are the main-players.

No Lex then? I'm guessing he's a background-player in this one.

wow, didnt notice that....but who is hardy?

 

[BobbyCorwin88]

I think he looks very cool. The only thing I'm not crazy about is the hair. No trademark curly Q? It's a minor complaint though.

I'm glad this movie is happening, but I feel like I'm one of the few who never really felt that SR was a bad film. It probably wasn't the best Superman film, but I definitely liked watching it. I liked how it was a kind of spiritual successor to the older Superman films. It was nice that they at least acknowledged them. But I'm ok with a reboot.

The saving grace with Superman is that we don't really need any kind of origin story. I'm fairly confident everyone on the planet knows at least that much about him.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Hardy, like Swanwick, isn't from the comics.

I was hoping for at least a Jimmy. Ah well, still can't wait!

 

[Mr. Thing]

I'm still betting on more casting announcements. We only got Perry yesterday.

 

[manofsteel4life]

Hardy, like Swanwick, isn't from the comics.

I was hoping for at least a Jimmy. Ah well, still can't wait!

oh alright....yea theres still time though, so we should be getting more...i mean no lana yet either, and theyre filming smallville scenes now...

 

[Rust]

I'm still betting on more casting announcements. We only got Perry yesterday.

I dunno.

I guess this will be the main cast and the rest are smaller roles and unknown actors maybe. Dont think Jimmy will be played by a known name.
Still hoping though, for a small surprise-look at Lex played by a heavyweight.

 

[Superman2007]

How many times are the words "Oscar Nominee" in that press release,lol?

 

[Lead Cenobite]

That's how you sell a movie.

 

[JAK®]

I dunno.

I guess this will be the main cast and the rest are smaller roles and unknown actors maybe. Dont think Jimmy will be played by a known name.
Still hoping though, for a small surprise-look at Lex played by a heavyweight.

I'm thinking Lex will be present in the same way Moriarty was in Sherlock Holmes.

 

[Sebastos]

I think there's still time for more casting announcements, we'll probably hear more in the weeks ahead.

 

[Mako]

I'm thinking Lex will be present in the same way Moriarty was in Sherlock Holmes.

I'd love for his presence in the film to be similar to it.

 

[dark_b]

Showtime and Jamie. did you had any info about the suit? because you talked that it might look like the MCG suit. and it does look similar to MCG. inspired.

 

[BrlntDsgse]

Hey, I posted the following kind of long description in the general discussion thread of how I think Zod's role on Krypton should be portrayed, and how it could be used to build up to sequels(particularly in regards to Brainiac). The problem is I posted it right before the new costume pic hit, so it's gonna get buried in the thread, so I figured I'd post it up here so others can read it and share their thoughts.....

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.

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?

 

[Lencho01]

Anyone think that Cavill's Superman could fit right in Watchmen? Like if you took the look of Watchmen and made a period piece like Fleischer's toon. That's the vibe I get from it.

 

[Showtime]

I'm thinking Lex will be present in the same way Moriarty was in Sherlock Holmes.

More than that.

 

[Showtime]

Showtime and Jamie. did you had any info about the suit? because you talked that it might look like the MCG suit. and it does look similar to MCG. inspired.

Yep. We did.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Yep. We did.

What happened to vanquish?

 

[SuperDaniel]

It doesnt look like the MCG suit though. It looks like the classic costume minus the trunks and redesigned belt.

 

[Godzilla2014]

Showtime and Jamie. did you had any info about the suit? because you talked that it might look like the MCG suit. and it does look similar to MCG. inspired.

Which McG Superman suit?

 

[DrCosmic]

I'm thinking Lex will be present in the same way Moriarty was in Sherlock Holmes.

Yeah, Similar, except we'd see Lex's face and know who he is at that time, but not know his role in the events.

 

[Showtime]

It doesnt look like the MCG suit though. It looks like the classic costume minus the trunks.

That is what he is referring too. Everything you're seeing in the comics and now on screen was inspired by those early prototypes from McG.

 

[Showtime]

What happened to vanquish?

Huh?