2013 Movie News Archives

May 30, 2013: "Man of Steel" Set Visit Interviews

Man of Steel Back in August 2011 Superman Homepage staff writer Jeffrey Taylor was invited to visit the set of "Man of Steel" on behalf of Movies.com. The round-table interview with direct Zack Snyder from that visit has now been posted online...

    What does Superman mean for you, for all of us, coming back today?

    Snyder: I've been a big fan of the character and honestly I wasn't sure about this project before I talked to Chris (Nolan) about what he and David (Goyer) had come up with. I think that I like the fact that Superman's American. I think that that's cool. I know that in the past or in recent years, his Americanism has been a liability for him. But I think that there is an amazing amount of naïveté. Superman could not be of any other nationality other than American because he's so naïve. [Laughs] But at the same time, he has this weird morality that actually makes him ideal superhero material.

    You can't have a Superman that is reasoning. You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built-in sort of values. I always remember everyone saying, "You're not going to show him growing up in Kansas, are you?" I'm like, "Why make Superman? To understand him, you have to understand the why of him." By the way, I'll say the first scene that Chris pitched me was a scene that was about his childhood. It had nothing to do with smashing s**t or anything like that, which is cool. But, it was very much a childhood character moment that made me say, "Okay, that's different." It's a different point of view of Superman that made me go, "Yeah, that grown-up version of that guy is interesting to me."

Read the complete interview at Movies.com.

SuperHeroHype.com were at the same set visit round table interviews, and have now published the interviews conducted with Henry Cavill, David Goyer and others. Here's part of what Henry Cavill had to say...

    What's something that a lot of us are really happy to hear is it's very realistic. Talk a little bit about when you first heard that it was going to be so realistic based and just the way you guys are playing it?

    CAVILL: The realism, I liked the idea immediately because the traditional Superman fans know what it's all about and they will hopefully love and associate with the character anyway, because they've grown up with him and been there through his various stages of development. But, the people who aren't die-hard Superman fans still need to be able to associate with the character and that needs to have a sense of realism in today's world, certainly a sense of science as opposed to mythology attached to it as well. So, people, as I say, can associate and have an emotional connection with him.

Read all the set visit interviews at the SHH website.



2013 Movie News

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