1978 Called – It Wants Its Superman Plot Back!
Wed, August 17, 2011 
Remember when fanboys wouldn't shut the fuck up about Superman Returns accusing it of being a carbon copy of Richard Donner's Superman: the Movie? It'll be funny as all Hell to see if any of them say decidedly nice things about Zack Snyder's The Man of Steel given said criticisms, judging by what we're seeing out in the open and what we’re hearing about the plot privately.
The Man of Steel Facebook page (who I do like and think are doing a good job, but if that's a 100% fan-run site with zero influence and/or help from Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures, I'll eat a sock!), in yet another round of juicy picture-grabbing, have posted a very spoilerific photo of a certain Kryptonian superhero's adoptive father played by a certain Untouchable Bodyguard.
Yeah...it looks like Pa Kent (Kevin Costner) eats it once again in a big expensive Superman movie. Maybe it's just too expected for this not to happen. Which is stupid logic, but I digress.
I've accepted that we're getting a new origin story for the silver screen...again. The fact of the matter is modern movie-goers haven't gotten one for thirty-three years. But this sounds like it's following in too close a path that Donner, Tom Mankiewicz & the Salkinds already walked and not the "bold and fresh" angle Christopher Nolan was talking up last year before Zack Snyder, Henry Cavill, etc. were hired.
Hell, remember when Latino Review first broke that David Goyer was writing The Man of Steel? Remember what they said about the plot? That it wasn't the origin, all the characters and their respective roles were already established, it'd be heavily influenced by the great mid-80s comic-run by John Byrne and would have Brainiac (and Luthor, of course) as the villain with a B-plot about the Daily Planet financially struggling?
What happened to that plot?
Reader Comments (4)
Thank goodness, I thought this would be some lame universe when pa kent doesn't die, ahem lois and clark.
looks like it says Harry Kent Jr. or something on it
The one to the right of it Matt.
Going off topic, but how about George Clooney for Lex Luthor? Yes I'm serious. George Clooney played so many good guys that I like to see him play a larger than life villian in a big movie, that is if Lex Luthor is in the movie somehow.