2013 Movie News Archives

March 29, 2013: Goyer on the Development of "Man of Steel"

Man of Steel Collider.com spoke with David Goyer about "Man of Steel", asking him how he got involved in working on the movie in the beginning.

    Warner Bros. has screened Man of Steel for a few people and I figured Goyer had seen it. While I wasn't even sure he would confirm anything, he did say he's seen it and when I asked if it was everything he hoped it would be, he said:

    "Yes, yes. I was very happy."

    In addition, the way Goyer and Nolan initially became involved with Man of Steel is pretty crazy. They were stuck on a section of The Dark Knight Rises and during a break, Goyer came up with some ideas for a Superman movie. Here's how Goyer describes it:

    "Chris (Nolan) and I were working on The Dark Knight Rises, working on the story; we were blocked. We agreed to part ways for a couple of weeks and just see if something had bubbled at the surface. So I went back to my home office. I was wasting time and procrastinating and took out an archive edition of some of the original Superman comic books, Action comic books and started rereading them because I couldn't figure out this plot point on Dark Knight Rises, I just randomly sat down one afternoon and wrote up some ideas for Superman.

    When I met with Chris Nolan again in another week or so he said, "Have you worked out the problem on the Dark Knight Rises?" I said, "No," he said, "What have you been doing?" and I said, "Well, I had this idea for Superman," and because Chris likes to procrastinate as well he said "let's hear it," so I told him. And he literally called Jeff Robinov, who's the head of Warner Bros, while I was sitting there and said, "Jeff, Dave just told me this take on Superman and you need to hear it, I'd like to produce it. Can we come in?" And we went in the next day. That's how it happened. No, we weren't trying to do it, it just happened."



2013 Movie News

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