In an interview with the LA Times, director Zack Snyder talked a little about how he’s approaching his Superman film – and that included acknowledging that this will truly be a reboot, essentially disgregarding all of the previous Superman films to date.
“Literally, the one thing that everyone can start to think about is that we’re making a movie that finally goes with the approach that there’s been no other Superman movies,” Snyder said. “If you look at ‘Batman Begins,’ there’s that structure: there’s the canon that we know about and respect, but on other hand there’s this approach that pre-supposes that there haven’t been any other movies. In every aspect of design and of story, the whole thing is very much from that perspective of ‘Respect the canon but don’t be a slave to the movies.’”
In the piece, Snyder also notes that the film will most likely be titled, Man of Steel, but no final decisions have been made on that yet. Snyder also touches on how it is working with his wife, Christopher Nolan, and why it’s so exciting for him to be working on such an iconic superhero – all of which you can read about in the LA Times piece, which I encourage you to do.
From the day that this was announced I have been excited to see what Zack Snyder is going to give us with regards to the Man of Steel, and from what he has to say about the project before they’ve even started filming it makes me think that this guy knows exactly what he wants to do with Superman, the Metropolis he wants to portray, and the story he wants to tell. How well this will all translate into a great Superman film, well, we will all just have to wait and see.
Zack Snyder’s Superman film starring Henry Cavill is aiming for a December 2012 release.