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July 14, 2012: "Man of Steel" Comic-Con Footage Description

Man of Steel Poster Hall H at Comic-Con International was the place to be on Saturday afternoon, with Warner Bros. Pictures showcasing footage from the highly anticipated "Man of Steel" movie.

While fans were unable to film the footage shown, what follows is a description of what was seen, written by Luis & Ivan Jaime...

    It opens with a wheat field on a farm.

    We then see a toy wagon flipped over in the grass.

    A butterfly on the chain of a swing, it flutters its wings.

    Cut to a shot of a man, walking alone on a snow-covered road. We see him from the back, walking towards the hills.

    We see a young boy, running through a field of grass from the farm we saw earlier. He wears a red cape, tucked into the back of his white T-shirt.

    Cut to a scene with a bearded Clark Kent sitting on the steps of a house on a cloudy day. A dog runs up to him, and he scratches the back of its head.

    We are then back at the farm. We see the boy with the cape, we don't see his head. What we see is his torso, with his two fists firmly planted on his waist, in a signature pose that we are ALL very familiar with.

    Man of Steel Panel In the background, we hear what sounds like a combination of Jor-El and Johnathan Kent: "What if a child dreams of becoming something other than what society had intended? What if a child aspired to something greater?"

    The scene changes to Clark being brought to a barn. A dusty sheet is pulled to reveal an intergalactic vessel that had been hidden there for years.

    Clark holds a metal "S" shield, in the new design from the movie, in his hand.

    Next we go to a completely different setting. We are no longer in a farm, but in a city.

    We hear a woman's voice in the background: "My son was in the bus." It cuts to a teenage Clark, saving children from a school bus that had fallen off a bridge and crashed in the water. Clark is swimming to the bus, and he rips the door off. "He saw what Clark did."

    Jonathan Kent's voice is then heard saying: "People are afraid of what they don't understand."

    Jor-El is now seen standing before Clark. "It's not from this world Clark." Jor-El pulls opens his cloak to reveal the Superman suit's "S" Shield. "Take you're freedom. It's my conscience. Where I come from."

    We now see Superman in his suit, long red cape flapping in the wind behind him. The first shot of him in the suit is from a distance, the second shows him walking across a snowy plain.

    We hear Jonathan Kent's voice: "You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be Clark. Whoever that man is, he's going to change the world."

    When then see a series of brief glimpses:

    We see a glimpse of Superman flying.

    Man of Steel Panel A glimpse of him catching someone falling off a building.

    A quick glimpse of Amy Adams as Lois Lane.

    A glimpse of Superman being led down a hallway by police, with his hands behind his back, while in his Superman suit.

    We catch a glimpse of Clark inside an elevator. The doors are closing, and right before we can no longer see his face, he removes his glasses from his face.

    He hear Clark's voice: "My father believed, if the world found out who I really was, they'd reject me. He was convinced that the world wasn't ready." We see Lois approaching Superman as if they are about to kiss. "What do you think?"

    There's a glimpse of a shirtless Clark, with his whole body on fire.

    And finally, we see Superman being thrown into a giant bank vault. The same vault from his first promotional image. It looks like he's been thrown.

    It finishes with a giant "S" shield, rotating on an axis, until you see the new "S" shield in all its glory. Followed by: "SUMMER 2013".

Apparently this footage is slightly different to the teaser trailer confirmed to screen with "The Dark Knight Rises" in cinemas.



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