Source: Digital Spy | Posted By: Dan Geer
After the news broke last month that Warner Brothers chose Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300) to direct Superman: Man of Steel, fans everywhere have been speculating just how exactly Snyder will approach the much-beloved material originally created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster back in the 30s. Read on to see just what little Snyder had to reveal!
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In an interview with Empire, Snyder had very little to say about writer David Goyer‘s approach to the story:
“It’s a different story. 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.’ 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.”
Okay, I guess I’ll take it. Even the smallest detail revealed about the new film (which is being produced by none other than Christopher Nolan) is news to me.
Another thing that came up last month was that General Zod would be the main villain in the new film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Well, it looks like Snyder is taking the Nolan approach to things by eliminating villains rather than confirming them. He says that those reports were “just wrong” and that “the internet has no idea what’s going on.”
I really hope we do get more information on the villain soon. To be quite honest, I am really holding out for a villain that is NOT Lex Luthor. While Luthor is a great villain, he’s been done so many times in film and television that it just seems like a better approach would be to come up with someone else from the comics – perhaps someone we have never seen before in the films.
Here’s to hoping that more will be revealed sometime in the near future, as this is a project that has a lot of buzz behind it right now after the announcements of Nolan “shepherding” the film and Synder directing it hit the web. For a little more on the subject, head on over to Digital Spy for the rest of the article.
Superman: Man of Steel is slated to hit theaters nationwide in December 2012.
