Wow. Now that is good advertising. Many people have been
complaining about the content of the previous Man of Steel trailers. I’ve heard comments like ‘Oh this film is
going to be too serious’ and ‘You can’t Nolanize Superman the same way you can
Nolonize Batman blah blah blah’. This trailer has now shut up all the whiners. For
the sake of being short-ish I’m going to purely talk about all the new footage.
The trailer first shows Krypton is total disarray as you
would expect from a Superman origin film. From the trailer alone however it
looks like it may not be a dying sun that destroys Krypton. It may be, I don’t
know but from just the visuals it looks more like a war is going on, or perhaps
some kind of invasion. Not being a diehard Superman fanboy I can’t say I would
care too much from the ‘Superman Law’ being tweaked in this reboot. Hell it’ll
have to be tweaked to make up for (in my opinion) the travesty that was Superman Returns. We then get a good
look at Jor-El (Russell Crowe) as he and his wife send baby Kal-El (Clark
Kent/Superman to all you total Superman noobs out there) to earth.
Skipping forward slightly we hear this narrative monologue
from Amy Adams where she talks about the myth of this reclusive superhuman. I personally
think this monologue may fit into Man of
Steel the same way Gary Oldman’s monologue fitted into The Dark Knight. From the tone of it I get the feeling it’ll be a
monologue that wraps up the film at the end. Next there is a clip of what looks
Superman walking out of (I may be wrong) the Fortress of Solitude. I initially
thought it may be some kind of spaceship, but I think that it may just be the
Fortress of Solitude after a major reimagining. After this Superman flies through
space and it’s all awesomely epic and then it shuts up the complainers with
loads of sci-fi action.
There is then the introduction of a famous yet previously
underused Superman villain: General Zod. If anyone was worried about Zod not
being intense enough, they can calm themselves because it looks like Michael Shannon
is going to be the creepy psychopath Zod needs to be. I can see Zod being
Cillain Murphy’s Scarecrow crossed with Robert Carlyle’s Begbie from Trainspotting. Yeah imagine that combination.
The short two lines of Zod are actually my favourite parts of the trailer. Zack
Snyder and Christopher Nolan have always been good with their casting choices
and Michael Shannon looks and sounds like a perfect Zod. The clip also suggests
(to me at least) that Zod will be hunting down Superman for revenge after some clash
with Jor-El.
After that there’s more awesomeness with explosions, bright
J.J Abrams-ish lights, Superman flying around punching things while giving his
own short monologue. The trailer finishes with a scene that seems to intrigue people
the most, a scene with Amy Adams’ Lois Lane talking to Superman. I won’t spoil
the dialogue for you but I think (from this dialogue alone) that if this is the
direction they are going in to bring Superman into a realistic world, this is a
very clever way of doing so.
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