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Henry Cavill appears ready to play a more grounded, introspective Superman – at least until Zod turns up to give him something to really worry about.
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With Hans Zimmer's rousing score underpinning explosive action that looks set to give fans the sense of spectacle that somehow went missing from 2006's insipid Bryan Singer effort, Superman Returns, Man of Steel looks on course to challenge Iron Man 3 as the year's biggest comic-book movie. It's not clear what peeved the Kryptonians to follow Kal-El to his adopted home – in the original, Zod was pretty miffed after being confined to a spinning glass contrivance called the Phantom Zone by Superman's dad for several decades. Comic-book aficionados will be aware that the two characters are more or less interchangeable in any case. Stamp's henchmen Ursa and Non are nowhere to be seen, but German actor Antje Traue plays a sinister character named Faora who has also made the journey to Earth. He turns up on Earth to smack mankind with a startling double-whammy: firstly, aliens exist, and secondly, they're going to blow the planet to smithereens if Superman doesn't come quietly. Essayed by Terence Stamp in Richard Donner's original 1978 Superman and its 1980 sequel, the Kryptonian supervillain's 21st-century incarnation is now a little less camp but just as ruthless and megalomaniacal. The final trailer for forthcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel has debuted on the web, and this time it's all about Michael Shannon's General Zod. Take Superman aside, I think that’s the right way to tell that story.”Īlso, if Superman didn’t kill Zod (and half of Metropolis in the process), Snyder wouldn’t have half as good a reason to tie in Batman for the sequel.Reading this on mobile? Click here to watch trailer “If you take Superman out of it, what’s the right way to tell that story? I think the right way to tell that story is if you take this powered alien who says, ‘You can have your race back, but you have to kill your adopted race,’ the moral, horrible situation to be in is to actually be forced to kill - not wanting to - the only other person from your race. And so he’s going up against a guy who’s not only superpowered, but has been training since birth to use those superpowers, who exists as a superhuman killing machine, who has stated, ‘I will never stop until I destroy all of humanity.’ He’d never fought anyone that had superpowers before. He’d only flown for the first time a few days before that. He wasn’t Superman as we think of him in the DC Comics … or even in a world that conceived of Superman existing. In that instance, this was a Superman who had only been Superman for like a week.
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“You have to do what’s right for the story.
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Scenario 3: Zod is accompanied by all of his resources he had during his invasion in Man of steel with all of his weapons and armour available. The way Goyer sees it, Superman was just a newbie superhero faced with a tough moral decision, but ultimately, it was the right call: Scenario 2: Zod is accompanied by his two loyal Kryptonian soldiers, Nam-Ek (yes that is his name, DBZ reference haha) and Faora-Ul. Goyer knows you’re still mad about all that death and destruction that capped off Anthony Mackie’s least-favorite film, Man of Steel, but he has a good excuse for writing it! Speaking with “The Nerdist Podcast,” the screenwriter further explained his previous defense of making Superman a killer who snapped General Zod’s neck in that never-ending fight scene director Zack Snyder also doesn’t regret.