
In a Comic-Con@Home panel conducted by Backstory Magazine’s Jeff Goldsmith, screenwriter David S. Goyer answers some of the lasting questions from the film “Man of Steel”.
He discusses the tornado scene in which Jonathan Kent dies, the decision to have Superman kill General Zod, and the alternate ending that was never filmed.
The “Man of Steel” discussion starts at 38 minutes and 38 seconds in to the video below:
I thought his reasoning’s regarding the couple of questionable MoS scenes were fairly accurate and well detailed. For me, I had no problem with the Zod killing. But not so much with his father getting swept up by the tornado and his later conversation with Lois, saying “I let my father die”. I mean earlier in the movie as a young boy, he saves a bus load of his school friends! I can only assume with the previous attempt in Superman Returns being lauded for it’s, “too much of a Donner play off”,….. and MoS being a re-boot of sorts,… Read more »