Superman Gets A Reboot0
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by A.J. Focht
Superman has been slated to return to the silver screen for quite some time now. It’s been nearly six months since Zack Snyder (Watchmen) signed on to direct the Kryptonian’s next blockbuster. There has been a slow trickle of information about the movie, but none of them have been as substantial as the latest news.
While Bryan Singer’s 2006 Superman Returns was careful to keep to the movie canon, Snyder is looking to reboot the series. His Superman movie, which has a working title of The Man of Steel, will serve as a fresh start, taking none of the past movies into account. Snyder is still determined to keep to the Superman canon, but he wants to take his movie the way of Batman Begins and not have it tied down to the events or style of previous movies.
“Literally, the one thing that everyone can start to think about is that we’re making a movie that finally goes with the approach that there’s been no other Superman movies,” Snyder said. “If you look at ‘Batman Begins,’ there’s that structure: there’s the canon that we know about and respect, but on other hand there’s this approach that pre-supposes that there haven’t been any other movies. In every aspect of design and of story, the whole thing is very much from that perspective of ‘Respect the canon but don’t be a slave to the movies.’”
-Source: LA Times
The film is scheduled for release in December of 2012. Currently, those on the cast list are mostly the stuff of conjecture, but Henry Cavill (The Tudors) has been cast as Clark Kent/Superman and Diane Lane (Untraceable) has been confirmed as Martha Kent. There has also been considerable speculation that Kevin Costner will be playing Jonathon Kent and that Viggo Mortenson will be cast as General Zod, but, as of now, these reports are just the product of a very active rumor mill.
It seems Snyder is being given a unique opportunity to reshape the iconic man in the red and blue spandex suit. If all goes right, Henry Cavill, not Christopher Reeves, will be the face of Superman for the next generation.
