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April 25, 2013: Superman Must Be Taken Seriously Says Zack Snyder

The LA Times has published an article about "Man of Steel", in which they talk to director Zack Snyder, and Producers Debbie Snyder and Charles Roven, to get their feelings and thoughts on the movie and on Superman as a character. Here are a few excerpts from the article...

"We had the canon that we needed to pay homage to," Roven said. "We need to make sure that Superman comes from Krypton. We weren't going to change that - those kinds of touchstones. But everything else between those touchstones was fair game."

"He's not super-perfect, and he might not always make the right decision, especially as he's growing up and trying to find himself," said producer (and Snyder's wife) Debbie Snyder. "I think he's struggling to find out what is the right thing to do." "We tried not to make him so predictably morally black and white," Zack Snyder added. "We gave him some shades of gray. His inherent goodness is still there, and if you really think about it, you still want him to be right and to make the right choices and to do the right thing. I think that we all hope for that in ourselves, and I think that's what always has made him a very interesting character. He's a Christlike figure. There's no two ways about it."

Read the entire article at the LA Times website.