Zack Snyder has been talking up Superman, but not so much about plot details. He is however, talking about his approach and what he hopes will make Superman a new franchise. He is ignoring all the previous films and will have no ties at all to those franchises.
“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.’”
I mentioned to Snyder that in hindsight the Singer film might have been boxed in by the past and too tentative — the movie seemed at times like a cautious curator trying to move around among fragile museum pieces. “Yeah, and we’re not afraid of that at all,” Snyder said. “Our Superman, he’s got things to figure out, but he’s a physical cat.”
I already had a fair amount of respect for what they were trying to accomplish here, but hearing this takes it up a knotch.
This is precisely what I had hoped they would do. Repect the source material but give us something new.
“He’s a phyisical cat”
Awesome.
