With Man of Steel though, the general assumption always seemed to be that Nolan was keeping a an extremely close eye and hand on every facet of the production (and on Warner Bros’ entire proposed line of superhero movies, in fact, if rumours are to be believed), almost in a mentor role to Snyder, but that apparently wasn’t the case. Sometimes crayons are eaten, in which case the producer has to step in with some stern words. Now generally, producers are the guys that assembles the toys and the kids, puts them all in a playpen together and then watches them go crazy. He was the man in charge, and we created the character together, as opposed to having too many outside influences.” I’m sure Zack had a phone call or two with him, but this is definitely Zack’s baby. “Chris Nolan wasn’t there during the production itself, although I’m not sure how much work was done behind the scenes. And hey, he’s Superman, so I think we can believe him. He’s really kept a firm hand on Snyder.” But did he really?Ĭhatting to F*** Magazine (yes, that’s their real name), star Henry Cavill spins a bit of a different take on things.
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But with Nolan, director of some of the best films of the last decade and the man that just about reinvented the superhero movie with his Dark Knight trilogy, acting as producer, all would be well, right?Īnd then the first, very dramatic looking trailers for Man of Steel hit, and everybody was like “Oh wow, that’s vintage Nolan. While Snyder had helmed many fan favourite flicks ( 300, Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead), he had just come off the CGI wankfest Sucker Punch, so faith was a tad bit low. You can also hear him and the other IGN experts weigh in on the ending here.Regardless, the scene and the movie as a whole seems to have gone over well with IGN readers, who voted Man of Steel the best Superman movie with a staggering 74% of the votes.“In Nolan we trust” was an oft-repeated mantra heard when it was first announced that Zack Snyder had been handed the directorial reins to a new Superman reboot. Still, there are those who approve of the neck snapping, including IGN Comics Editor Joey Esposito, who explains in great detail why killing Zod is actually the most selfless decision Superman could have made. The ending has certainly proven to be controversial among fans. But you don’t want to get that guy mad,” he said. The idea that he has the frailties of a human emotionally. That’s the thing that’s cool about him, in some ways. When you put in stone the concept that he won’t kill, and it’s totally in stone, it really erases an option in the viewer’s mind…you’ll always have in the back of your mind, ‘How far can you push him?’ If he sees Lois get hurt, or his mother get killed, you just made a really mad Superman that we know is capable of some really horrible stuff, if he wants to be. “If there were more adventures for our Superman to go on, you’re given this thing where, you don’t know 100 percent what he’s going to do. The idea of a morally ambiguous and unpredictable Superman seemed to resonate with the director. “I felt like, if we could find a way of making it impossible for him - Kobayashi Maru, totally no way out - I felt like that could also make you go, ‘This is the why of him never killing again.’ He’s basically obliterated his entire people and his culture, and he is responsible for it, and he’s just, like, ‘How could I ever kill again?’” “If it’s truly an origin story, his aversion to killing is unexplained,” Snyder said. Snyder weighed in with the idea that Superman killing Zod is actually key to him developing as a hero.
Goyer added that the decision goes a long way to modernize Superman for a new generation, saying, “If you don’t reinvent these characters…then they become stagnant, and they cease being relevant…hopefully, we’ve redefined Superman.”
I wrote the scene and I gave it to Chris and he said, ‘OK, you convinced me. Zack and I said, ‘We think we can figure out a way that you’ll buy it.’ I came up with this idea of the heat vision and these people about to die. No way.’ We said, ‘But what if he didn’t have a choice?’ Originally, Chris didn’t even want to let us try to write it. “We talked to some of the people at DC Comics and said, ‘Do you think there’s ever a way that Superman would kill someone?’ At first they said, ‘No way. When that ending proved to be unsatisfying, Goyer had to convince others to go with the twist. Originally, Zod got sucked into the Phantom Zone along with the others.” “And that was something that Chris Nolan originally said, ‘There’s no way you can do this’. “Killing Zod was a big thing,” Goyer said. Man of Steel director Zack Snyder and writer David Goyer revealed on The Empire Film Podcast that producer/comic book movie Godfather Christopher Nolan initially did not approve of the controversial ending where Superman kills General Zod.
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