Henry Cavill refused to take steroids to muscle up for the role.Crowe once had a song with his band "Rus Le Roq" entitled " I want to be like Marlon Brando". Russell Crowe becomes the second Oscar winner to portray Jor-El after Marlon Brando.He wanted it to be brutal and jarring, so that it would forever keep in Superman's mind. Zack Snyder proposed that Superman kill General Zod, in order to set up Superman's classic "never kills" motto.
This is the first Warner Brothers Superman film to not incorporate Williams' score.
To completely distinguish this film as a new film separate from previous ones, the iconic "Superman Theme" by John Williams wasn't heard.Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and in the subsequent Wonder Woman (2017) and Justice League films. Gadot would later be chosen to play Diana Prince a.k.a. Gal Gadot was originally cast as Faora, but had to drop out due to her pregnancy, and Antje Traue was cast in her place.Viggo Mortensen and Daniel Day-Lewis were considered to play General Zod, before Michael Shannon was cast.Amy Adams (Lois Lane) is only nine years younger than Diane Lane (Martha Kent).Clark's line " Can't I keep pretending I'm your son?", and Jonathan's response, " You are my son", are taken from "Superman: Secret Origin" by Geoff Johns.The film released in June 2013, the 75th anniversary of Superman.Clark Kent ( Henry Cavill), one of the last of an extinguished race disguised as an unremarkable human, is forced to reveal his identity when Earth is invaded by an army of survivors who threaten to bring the planet to the brink of destruction. Unfortunately, the movie's climax still depends on Superman feeling torn between his respective roles, human/alien/messiah, all of them in some way true and all of them impossible to entirely fulfill. So amid all the action scenes, flashbacks, and cutaways that follow around Lois Lane (a precedent-breaking redhead, Amy Adams) as she investigates into who exactly this superhuman person is, there simply wasn't room to earnestly explore Superman's identity issues. The hand of Christopher Nolan (who shares a story credit) is clear here-anyone who sat through The Dark Knight or Inception will recognize Nolan's proclivity for stories with climaxes that go on for half an hour. It's understandable why Snyder, director of stylish, brooding action movies like 300 and Watchmen, chose to go this route: the film is packed densely with information and plot, covering the death of planet Krypton, Clark Kent's upbringing in Kansas, his antagonists and their objectives, and the myriad twists and turns that result.
And the most interesting, human moments experienced by Superman always show up in the interplay between his coexistent identities.īut in Zach Snyder's Man Of Steel, Superman (Henry Cavill, best known for his work on The Tudors) is there mostly to satiate that part of the American psyche that wants their messiahs to punch things, too. He is Clark Kent, farm boy from Kansas he is Superman, hero of Metropolis and symbol of Freedom, Justice, and The American Way and he is Kal-El, alien from Krypton, his parents killed and homeland destroyed. Superman is a complex character, as superheroes go, too complicated to reduce into hero stereotypes and character-bio shorthands.