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- KaDee Strickland, Jason Behr Expecting First Child
- Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Usher, And Others Raise Millions With Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert
- Report: Grouchy Tiger, Hidden Paparazzi… Cops Called
- Man of Steel 'Battle of Smallville' Featurette
- Screw the boring and predictable "which movie cliché do you hate?" Reddit... which movie cliché do you love?!
- M. Night Shyamalan suggests there's still hope for UNBREAKABLE 2
- This Star Wars Prequel plot hole always bothered me, so I made a new scene to explain it.
- DAE feel like movies aren't living up to their hype these days?
- Ranking the films of M. Night Shyamalan
- UN Secretary-General to speak at University of Denver commencement
- CU asks RTD to move light-rail stop at Anschutz
- Jaden Smith Says Kylie Jenner Is Just a ‘Friend’
- MAN OF STEEL: Zack Snyder Says This Version Of Clark Kent Isn't "Fully Realized"
- David S. Goyer Is STILL "Not Sure" About A Possible JUSTICE LEAGUE Movie
- 'We don't sell junk food', says McDonald's CEO to a 9-year-old girl. A whopper?
- Man of Steel Set Visit: Henry Cavill and Director Zack Snyder Talk Superman, Romance and Origins
- Man of Steel Set Visit: David S. Goyer and Charles Roven Talk 3D, Christopher Nolan and Super Powers
- Design Upgrades And New Characters From 'Transformers 4' Unveiled
- Justin Bieber Goes Clubbin’ in the Big Apple
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| KaDee Strickland, Jason Behr Expecting First Child Posted: 30 May 2013 10:58 AM PDT
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| Posted: 30 May 2013 11:07 AM PDT  Several music stars gathered at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City to raise millions in charity for those affected by the devastating tornadoes in the state. Read More > | ||
| Report: Grouchy Tiger, Hidden Paparazzi… Cops Called Posted: 30 May 2013 10:57 AM PDT Tiger Woods reportedly got into an angry argument with paparazzi outside his children's school last week. A source told Gossip Extra that "it got pretty ugly until the cops showed up." The confrontation appears to have occurred as Tiger and girlfriend Lindsey Vonn were dropping off Woods' kids, Sam, almost 6, and Charlie, 4, at school in North Palm Beach. | ||
| Man of Steel 'Battle of Smallville' Featurette Posted: 30 May 2013 10:58 AM PDT   The cast and crew of Man of Steel explain how they took the iconic character of Superman and made him relatable to a modern audience in the latest featurette. Stars Henry Cavill, Michael Shannon, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe, director Zack Snyder and producers Charles Roven and Deborah Snyder all participate in describing how grounded this adventure is. We also get behind-the-scenes footage of a sequence entitled "The Battle of Smallville", where Superman must protect his hometown, and Deborah Snyder explains how they used real companies like Sears and 7-11 to give the project a more authentic feel. Man Of Steel - Featurette 2Man of Steel comes to theaters June 14th, 2013 and stars Russell Crowe, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Michael Shannon, Laurence Fishburne, Christopher Meloni. The film is directed by Zack Snyder. | ||
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| M. Night Shyamalan suggests there's still hope for UNBREAKABLE 2 Posted: 30 May 2013 08:47 AM PDT
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| This Star Wars Prequel plot hole always bothered me, so I made a new scene to explain it. Posted: 30 May 2013 09:04 AM PDT
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| DAE feel like movies aren't living up to their hype these days? Posted: 30 May 2013 10:39 AM PDT So far in 2013, quality-wise, all of the big budget movies have been misses. Oz, Jack the Giant Slayer, Oblivion, Iron Man 3, Star Trek, Hangover 3, After Earth. Maybe Iron Man 3 and Star Trek are passable, but definitely were not as good as their predecessors. This makes me wonder how many of the June, July, August crop will actually be any good? Is this a product of movies being overhyped? Or are the big movies just not very good anymore? [link] [9 comments] | ||
| Ranking the films of M. Night Shyamalan Posted: 30 May 2013 09:03 AM PDT
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| UN Secretary-General to speak at University of Denver commencement Posted: 30 May 2013 10:48 AM PDT United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the world's top diplomat, and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock will address graduate and undergraduate students at commencement ceremonies for the | ||
| CU asks RTD to move light-rail stop at Anschutz Posted: 30 May 2013 11:03 AM PDT A planned light rail station near the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and soon-to-be Veterans Administration Hospital could cause problems for the facilities and should be moved. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Jaden Smith Says Kylie Jenner Is Just a ‘Friend’ Posted: 30 May 2013 10:22 AM PDT Actor Jaden Smith, 14, insists he is not dating Kylie Jenner, 15. | ||
| MAN OF STEEL: Zack Snyder Says This Version Of Clark Kent Isn't "Fully Realized" Posted: 30 May 2013 10:05 AM PDT The embargo has lifted on the Man Of Steel set visits so even though some of the info and details will be out of date, expect a few new tidbits here and there -- such as the following: How exactly will Clark Kent be handled in the movie? Obviously we've seen Superman out of costume as Clark, but what about the mild mannered civilian disguise he adopts once he begins working at the Daily Planet? All previous movie incarnations went with the awkward, glasses wearing office nerd type, but Snyder says they have gone a different route here, and suggests there's plenty of room for development of the character. I'll only say that I think in a lot of — well, definitely in the movies — he always jumps straight from childhood to Clark. Like, he jumps from sort of his teenage version of himself to the adult version of | ||
| David S. Goyer Is STILL "Not Sure" About A Possible JUSTICE LEAGUE Movie Posted: 30 May 2013 10:02 AM PDT "I don't know, honestly. I go back and forth," Man of Steel screenwriter David S. Goyer told Collider when they visited the set of the movie last year and asked him if he would be interested in working on Justice League. Of course, we have since heard that the success of Zack Snyder's reboot will more than likely decide the fate of that superhero ensemble becoming a reality, so the plan to continue making DC superhero movies where they each live in their own universes may be about to change. "I mean, I think that on Batman and Superman, Chris has taken a different approach. I love the Marvel films and they're really fun, but he's definitely taken a different approach so far, which is that each of these movies is its own cohesive universe and at least with Batman it seems to have worked out. So, I | ||
| 'We don't sell junk food', says McDonald's CEO to a 9-year-old girl. A whopper? Posted: 30 May 2013 10:17 AM PDT 'We don't sell junk food,' McDonald's CEO Don Thompson told a nine-year-old girl. Saying 'We don't sell junk food' doesn't change the fact that many kids know healthy food from unhealthy food. | ||
| Man of Steel Set Visit: Henry Cavill and Director Zack Snyder Talk Superman, Romance and Origins Posted: 30 May 2013 10:04 AM PDT   Star Henry Cavill and director Zack Sndyer talk Man of Steel on the set in Plano, IllinoisDuring my trip to the Man of Steel set in Plano, Illinois back in August 2011, the last two interviews of the day were the biggest, with star Henry Cavill and director Zack Snyder. Given how in-depth they both are, I thought it would be best to separate both interviews into a separate piece. If you haven't read the first part of my set visit piece, clickHere. If you have, then read our long-ranging conversations with Henry Cavill, who conducted the interview in his full Superman costume, and director Zack Snyder. Henry Cavill - Clark Kent/SupermanThat suit does not look comfortable. Henry Cavill: It's not too bad. I've got a harness on underneath it, so I'm moving quite stiffly, but it's really not so bad. We heard you guys are shooting some six day weeks. We've heard that it involves you waking up at four in the morning, working some very long hours. Is this even more challenging of a role than you anticipated? Talk a little bit about just the daunting nature of this role and this project. Henry Cavill: As far as anticipation? No. It's exactly as hard as I anticipated, so I'm okay, so I'm not going to sort of suddenly stop and went, 'Oh my god, this is impossible.' I was expecting very early mornings, so I've got to get up, train in the mornings and then go to work for a 12 hour day. That's all expected and fine. As far as the sheer scope of it, it's wonderful. The more the days go on, the more I'm enjoying it. So have you flown around on wires yet? Henry Cavill: There'll be no flying around on wires just yet. There has been a little bit of being, you know, heaved about the place. What have you sort of learned about the character that's sort of surprised you since you've been playing him? Or maybe that you understand better? Henry Cavill: Nothing, really. I had a pretty good grip on what was going to happen. Let me think about that for two seconds. I may have a better answer for you. No, nothing. (laughter) It's certainly very rich in terms of coming to terms with two identities, Kal and Clark, and having to reconcile that. So, talk a little bit about what's involved with that dramatically and what it allows you to do. Henry Cavill: I can't really answer that. I'm going to have to invoke the (Christopher) Nolan Clause because I may give away essential things. Something that a lot of us are really happy to hear is it's very realistic. Talk a little bit about when you first heard that it was going to be so realistic based and just the way you guys are playing it?
You are shooting here in Plano and when we were driving by we saw one of the hardware stores had Superman painted on the glass. Would you say how community's really embraced the shoot so far? Henry Cavill: From what I've heard, there's Superman stuff everywhere. I've heard about Superman ice cream, Superman cookies, a welcome sign to Superman cast and crew outside banks, that kind of stuff. I think that's really cool. What's the key to making the relationship between Superman, Clark and Lois work? Henry Cavill: Superman, Clark and Lois, the key to making it work? Hm... let me think about that so I can give you a decent answer. (long silence) No, it's just I want to answer that properly because I mean, the easy answer is acting, but there's a fine balance between - again, I've gotta be careful what I say here. There's an honesty to Clark, Kal-El-Kal-El's a better way of saying it because he is both Superman and Clark. There's an honesty to him which crosses over on both. I don't like to use the word identities, but I will because I can't think of a better one. So, it is not that tough to make that swap and change. I understand that you've been reading some Superman comic books lately. I'm wondering what's some of your favorites, and possibly even what some of your least favorites? Henry Cavill: Recently, my most recent favorites, the New Krypton saga and otherwise, "Death of Superman", "Return" and I quite like "Red Son", very different and that was great for character study because it gave me an entirely different perspective on the character, and therefore, gave me a couple of nuances on that. I won't tell you what they are. (Laughs) Least favorite? I don't really know. I haven't thought about that one. How is it portraying such an American icon? Is it intimidating? Henry Cavill: How is it? It's a lot of fun. I don't think there's an intimidation to it as such. Certainly if I really thought about it and concentrated, there's been a couple of phases where people have said, they've been explaining to me all the Superman cookies and the ice creams and I saw organic kryptonite next to organic corn sign on the way down here. There was a second where I went, 'Wow, this is massive.' You gotta ignore that and not let it get to you otherwise you'll be focusing so much on the pressure as opposed to actually dealing with the important thing which is doing justice to the character. Now we know that Zack is shooting a lot in handheld with a lot of intimacy in the way he was shooting the scenes we saw earlier today. What are the advantages of that for you in your character?
David S. Goyer said that Superman has to make some terrible choices in this story. Again, without going into detail, which he didn't of course, does that make it more interesting? I mean, even when you were in the running to play this, is it just more interesting as an actor to play a flawed Superman as opposed to a sort of god-like being that's invulnerable? Henry Cavill: My instinctual answer will be yes, however, a flawed being is closer to human, and therefore, potentially less interesting to play than something further away from human. I think it certainly adds an interesting touch to a character which we've become so used to being god-like, to use your word. It makes it more fun to play because there's more choice in reactions to everything as opposed to, "Oh yeah, well, I'm god-like, so therefore this. Oh, I can actually do this, this, this, this, this or this." It allows me to add more of my own flavor to this character. In several movies, the interpretation of Clark has been way more extreme, maybe less so in the comics where he's bumbling and really kind of goofy. Where does Clark fall for you, the way you're playing him? Henry Cavill: I'm sorry man. I'd love to answer that because I've put a lot of work into it, but I can't. Were there any particularly memorable moments in the audition process, in the casting process leading up to this, things that happened already? Henry Cavill: Naturally, screen testing for this was memorable, but not in the sense that a lot of people seemed to assume, which is, 'What was it like putting the suit on and being Superman and being there and being shot as Superman?' It was more of a nerve wracking, am I doing it right? Am I going to get the role? How do I look? Is it okay? I haven't prepared. I haven't had a chance to prepare nearly enough for this. Yeah, all of the above. So, it was definitely a nerve wracking experience. As soon as it had finished, as I always do after you finish a screen test, I just forgot about it and because in case I didn't get the role, you don't want to be disappointed because if you do that in every role you get then you'll end up throwing yourself off a building. What was your first reaction to seeing the changes in the suit? Henry Cavill: My first reaction? I honestly thought it was really cool. There's something about the suit which you don't know what to expect. You come onto a project like this and you hear about modernization and you hear about bringing everything forward and to today. All you can do is hope that it's going to look cool and different from anything else you've seen before. I'm pretty sure it does. I love putting it on. I love going through all the different phases of how the suit developed. Yeah, it was really exciting.
Henry Cavill: Okay, physical training for the role has been extraordinary intense. Mark Twight, the chap from Gym Jones, has been putting me through the ringer big time. Two hours a day on a mix of calories depending on what sort of work we're doing. We started off at about 3,000 a day plus shake. That's about 3,500. But, two hours of work and then we moved up to 4,000 and then up to 5,000 calories. Now, we've dropped down to about 3,500 while we're doing an hour's training every morning because if I keep that high calorie intake I'm going to start putting on fat weight, but if I drop too low I'm going to start losing all the new muscle I've gained. But, an example of the sort of workouts we've been doing recently? A couple of weeks ago it was 100 front squats in body weight. We've been quite fond of doing the 100 repetition stuff recently and heavy as well. I'm trying to think of the other good stuff. But generally, the guys work out with me now. And so, we all have a bit of fun doing it as well. For example, if Mike Levitz, who's the assistant trainer, we'll just do 10 reps of a weight and then someone drops out, they do 10, someone drops out, they do 10. By the time the third person's finished their set, you come in and do your 10, up to 100. Otherwise, training stuff, I mean, it's huge amounts of kettle bell workouts. What's it like seeing kids and people react to you in the costume? Henry Cavill: That is the biggest of effects so far. Everyone else, you know, when people say, 'Oh, it's Superman,' and all sorts, you just sort of ignore the pressure. But when it comes to seeing a kid who actually believes you're Superman, doesn't see Henry Cavill, the actor playing Superman, it's, 'Daddy, it's Superman,' and he's hiding his face. That is nuts because the responsibility attached to that, they're going to have that experience for the rest of their life when they met Superman, not when they met Henry Cavill who is an actor playing Superman. I think that's really important, for such an incredible icon to do that just right. If you mess that up, you're the wrong guy for the role. Zack Snyder - DirectorYou've been shooting this in a more real world style than your previous films. What kind of challenges does that bring to you? Zack Snyder: I guess for me, in the TV commercial world I was known for shooting locations, beautiful landscapes and things like that. So, it's interesting. It's challenging in that it's been a while since I've been pressured by the sun and things of that nature. I try to stay away from those problems. But, on the other hand, you know, when the sun goes down you go home, so that's good. I don't know. It's fun. It's been exciting. It's kinda cool. I miss being outside. (Laughs) But now I'm tired of being outside.
Zack Snyder: You know, I think Superman, for me, I've been a big fan of the character and honestly I wasn't sure about this project before I talked to Chris (Nolan) about what he and David (S. Goyer) had come up with. So, I don't know. I think that I like the fact that Superman's American, you know? I think that that's cool. I know that in the past or in recent years, his Americanism, his Americanness has been a liability for him. But I think that there is an amazing amount of naïveté. Superman could not be of any other nationality other than American because he's so naïve. (Laughs) But at the same time, he has this weird morality that actually makes him ideal superhero material. I don't know that you can't have a Superman that is reasoning. You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values. I think that that's him growing up in Kansas. I always remember everyone saying like, 'You're not going to show him growing up in Kansas, are you?' I'm like, 'Why make Superman? To understand him, you have to understand the why of him.' By the way, I'll say the first scene that Chris pitched me was a scene that was about his childhood. It had nothing to do with like, smashing s--t or anything like that, which is cool. But, it was very much a character childhood character moment that made me say, 'Okay, that's different.' It's a different point of view of Superman that made me go, 'Yeah, that grown up version of that guy is interesting to me.' Everyone's had a hard time sort of discussing Clark and how he's different than other versions of Clark. Is there anything you can tell us about how different he might be? Zack Snyder: In the movies, he always jumps straight from childhood to Clark. Like, he jumps from sort of his teenage version of himself to the adult version of himself. Frankly, 'The Daily Planet' Clark, that happens pretty quick. I just think that our Clark, he's not fully realized and I think, by the way, that's huge information. But I think that's the big difference. That's why there's this talk about who Clark is. In a lot of ways, that the movie sort of really is about the why of Clark, not to say that his mock nerdy Clark is, but that's not the Clark that we went after or are going after. We're going after sort of a different take on Clark, how Clark is. How long did you spend searching for the right pair of glasses that he may or may not wear? Zack Snyder: The ones that he may or may not wear could've taken or may not have taken some time to find. (Laughs) That's awesome. I know that you can't talk about the origin of the suit. That's something that we're probably going to have to wait until the film comes out for. But, can you talk a little bit about the utility of the suit, what makes it different?
What does Henry bring to this? Zack Snyder: Well, Henry is like, Superman-ish, you know, in his feel. He's really kind. He's incredibly humble in real life. He can project a naïveté, which is nice, without seeming naïve, (Laughs) which is really a difficult quality. I don't feel like you can take advantage of him, but he'd still help you change your tire if you had a flat tire on the side of the road. There's a fine line there. I have a question that you can probably answer very quickly. I saw that you set Smallville in Kansas like the first movie did. Where is Metropolis going to be set in a specific state? Will it be New York? Zack Snyder: What we did is, I created this thing called the District of Metropolis. The problem was is that it happened because legal wanted a state. Legal was like, 'What state is Metropolis in?' Legal called me and said it. I was like, 'I don't know. I don't want to say.' They were like, 'You have to say because there's a Metropolis, Illinois and you could be sued and blah, blah, blah.' I was like, 'Okay.'So we created this thing called the District of Metropolis and Metropolis is inside of it. It's sort of an east coast city, but it's like, right there in Chesapeake Bay, you know? It's kind of those islands. You could imagine if one of those had been a city had been built on one of those. That's kinda where we put it. Can you talk about some of the other cast members? Zack Snyder: Well, Kevin (Costner) playing Jonathan, he's just done an amazing job. We've shot all his scenes except for one already. He's just awesome because he's an amazing actor, amazing instincts, wants to make the work better. He's always looking at every scene like, 'You know what would be cool? Would it be more emotional if I did this?' He's really awesome that way. Diane (Lane) is kind of the same way. She's cool. You get one f**k in a PG-13 movie, but we haven't used it yet, but I wanted Diane to say it. (laughter) We couldn't figure out a way for her to say it.
Zack Snyder: I don't know. Look, I'll be frank about 3D. I think it's cool. We spent quite a while talking about shooting the movie in 3D and we tested a bunch of rigs. I said, 'Look, the movie's handheld. If you guys can give me a handheld grade that I think is viable, I'm happy to talk about it.' No one could find me a rig. I think I did 20 set-ups today, 21 set-ups. I think that I would've done four, honestly, and especially handheld. John (Clothier) would be at the chiropractor right now. So, I guess my feeling is that I wasn't going to change the style of the movie for 3-D. I wasn't going to be like, 'Oh, it's 3-D, so it's not handheld anymore.' So I guess that was one of the big things that made us just go like, 'Well, we'll post convert and that's cool. We'll spend time and we'll make it as awesome as we can. We'll collect all the data we need and we'll just do as good a job as we can.' Going back to the cast, David S. Goyer said that Michael Shannon's Zod is sort of like Heath Ledger's Joker in sort of re-envisioning in sort of a psychological way. Could you talk a bit about how your viewings are and how Shannon is bringing that? Zack Snyder: Yeah, we're just trying to make his point of view. He's not maniacal or f--ked up. He's got a point of view that is not crazy. I think Shannon also is just, he's a force of nature and I think that that is really fun and helpful. Whatever the stakes are, you have to figure that Shannon will raise them just by being Shannon. Then, I think that's fun because I think that you've gotta have a real threat. That's a lot of reasons the Zod of it all comes from that, right? We didn't want to start this adventure with a Superman that didn't have an enemy that showed why he needs to be Superman. Zod is Kryptonian as well. If you were doing the sequel, who would you cast as Lex Luthor? Zack Snyder: Awesome, you guys are great. Thank you so much. As we were wrapping up our day, one of the last things we saw was Zack Snyder rehearsing a fight scene with Henry Cavill, when a portion of Henry Cavill's interview struck me. He was talking about seeing kids react to the costume and saying, 'Oh, that's Superman,' instead of an actor in a form-fitting suit with a red cape. Despite having talked to him less than an hour prior, watching him go through the motions of an intricate fight scene, I truly believed that Henry Cavill was Superman. I understand the irony within, since he wasn't actually doing anything Superman-esque at the time, but, for whatever reason, that entire day culminated in that one moment. It might also have had something to do with watching a star being born right before our eyes. This was two full months before the release of Immortals, when moviegoers worldwide were properly introduced to this talented young actor. If only for a brief moment, I half-expected him to take off into the sky, and go fight whatever battles needed to be fought on that particular day. Of course, he didn't, because he is Henry Cavill the actor, but still, it was quite a powerful feeling to walk away with after an incredibly memorable day. clickHere to check out the first part of my Man of Steel set visit. Man of Steel comes to theaters June 14th, 2013 and stars Russell Crowe, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Michael Shannon, Laurence Fishburne, Christopher Meloni. The film is directed by Zack Snyder. | ||
| Man of Steel Set Visit: David S. Goyer and Charles Roven Talk 3D, Christopher Nolan and Super Powers Posted: 30 May 2013 10:03 AM PDT   We visit the Plano, Illinois set of Man of Steel and speak with writer David S. Goyer and producer Charles RovenWhen I first arrived on the Plano, Illinois set of Man of Steel, there were none of the usual indicators that told me I was, in fact, on a movie set. There were no bright yellow signs pointing us in the right direction, or even a crew bustling about. There was just one solitary woman guarding the entrance to Clark Kent's boyhood home in Smallville. As it turned out, they hadn't been shooting in this particular location for awhile, but they kept the entire farmhouse set and the barn fully dressed, just to show us. I had that warm and fuzzy feeling that this day was going to be very special right from the get-go, and I was right. I would hope that, by now, I shouldn't have to set up the story for Man of Steel, hitting theaters June 14. At this point, our faithful readers have been inundated with Superman videos and photos leading up to this highly-anticipated release, and I hope I'm not being too presumptuous in assuming that you already know more than enough about the story. However, when we arrived on the set back in late August 2011, there wasn't much we knew about the story, except the primary cast and, you know, that it was about Superman. The first person we met on the set was producer Deborah Snyder (and wife of director Zack Snyder), who gave us a tour of these very detailed sets. The land they shot on is owned by an actual soybean farmer, although Zack Snyder wanted corn, so they planted their own. When we walked around the side of the house, that was our first real indication I was on the set of a Superman movie. We saw an old truck flipped upside down, going through the house. When we arrived at the barn, there stood the spacecraft that Jor-El was sent to Earth in, which Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner) has kept hidden for all these years. The ship was approximately 10-12 feet long, and it looked just as cool on set as it did in all the trailers we've seen. When asked about how much this reinvents the Superman story, Deborah Snyder revealed they were staying true to the canon, but making it more relevant for a modern audience. "Superman is beloved and has such a history. I think it's a balance of being true to that, but also about modernizing it and making it relevant. Like, for instance, Clark, I feel like he hasn't been so relatable, and I feel like if you can relate to him even just as a person of someone who's struggling and trying to find himself or whatever, I feel like you get a lot more, you care about him a lot more, you know? He's the kind of guy that you can watch a football game and drink a beer. I think that's a big deal."
"That is the plan, that we will be converting it. But I think, given enough time and enough planning, I mean, the thing that we're doing that a lot of people don't do is we're gathering a lot of information on set with our witness. You know, because also the visual effects, but also on shots that aren't visual effects, we're shooting all kinds of reference. We're taking a lot of written reference of lensing and everything, but also photographically. So, the problem is, it's the stuff that you can't see, and we're capturing all those images. So I feel it's just our approach to the conversion is slightly different because like, rather than it being an afterthought, it'll be planned for, you know?" When Zack Snyder was announced as the Man of Steel director, there were some who wondered how his stylized approach would mesh with a highly-kinetic movie like this. Deborah Snyder revealed that the director is shooting the whole movie handheld. "The whole movie's handheld. That's something completely different. He just wanted to approach this film in a different way. I mean, so I think you are going to see something that's new. I think you're going to see something that's more organic. Again, we're shooting more on physical locations than we ever have before. It was very important to really put him in our real world, so that's kind of-I think all those decisions led to how he's operating the camera. It all kind of-when that's your end goal, you make certain choices to get to that goal." After our tour of the farmhouse set, we were driven to the primary set in Plano, which has a very Main Street U.S.A. feel to it. In fact, on our way to there, we drove past a local hardware store, which had a hand-painted Superman logo on the window. When we got to the actual set, however, there was destruction all around us. The remnants of a half-destroyed 7-11 was at the edge of this area, and the street was littered with what appeared to wreckage from a military plane crash, remnants of fuselage and jet engines strewn about this normally-idyllic street. We also got to watch a scene where Kryptonians (i.e. actors in motion-capture suits) were ganging up on Superman (Henry Cavill). We could instantly see very kinetic pace that Deborah Snyder alluded to earlier. Our press corps set up shop in a local pub named Dave's Tavern, which became our own "base camp," so to speak, for the rest of the day. This essentially provided us with a quieter environment to conduct our interviews, since they were shooting scenes with helicopters outside (more on that later). We were also joined by screenwriter and geek God David S. Goyer, who, along with director Christopher Nolan, brought Batman back to life with Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises. Ironically enough, the writer's initial idea for this Superman tale sprung from being "blocked" on the script of The Dark Knight Rises, in what has to be my favorite part of any interview that day.
"Chris (Nolan) and I were working on The Dark Knight Rises and we reached writers' block. Chris said, 'Let's break for a week and just clear our palettes and then come back.' I was tooling around in my office and I just picked up some old Superman comic books, started reading them. For about an afternoon I just had this notion for a Superman story. At this point, I think they were developing another version with someone else anyway, so I just randomly wrote a couple of pages, maybe three or four pages of a Superman movie. Without giving too many spoilers away, it just occurred to me that the story that I was interested in seeing was the story that was about - we knew Kal was an alien, but what made him actually assume this Superman identity and put on a costume? What made him decide, 'Oh, I'm going to actually present myself to the world and be a superhero?' I realized that if the world became aware that Kal existed, it would be a first contact story, and in many ways, it would be the biggest thing that ever happened in human history. It would change the world forever, just the sheer fact that he existed on the planet and then subsequently, the knowledge of what he could do, it would force the religions of the world to respond. There would be fear. There would be awe, just the sheer fact that he existed would be the biggest story that ever happened in human history. I realized at least cinematically they'd always just kinda jumped over that, you know? I loved the (Richard) Donner film, but in the Donner film, he sorta walks up into the north and he throws a crystal and then he comes out of the fortress and he's in his costume. Then it's like, 'Oh, there's a guy.' Everyone just is like, 'Oh, that's cool. This guy can do all this fine.' Then, Superman Returns just assumed that you knew all the Donner films as well, and they just jumped over what I thought to me would literally, like I said, be the single most important event in human history. So I had more of the idea worked out, but that was the initial starting point. So I came back to Chris and he said, 'So did you crack it?' We were having a problem with the third act in The Dark Knight Rises. He said, 'Did you figure it out?' I said, 'No, but I have this idea for Superman.' He said, 'Oh, all right, fine, what is it?' So, I spent about 20 minutes telling him this story and he said, 'Wow! That's really cool. Do you want me to produce it?' I said, 'Oh, I don't even know that they're doing something else.' He said, 'Well, let's call 'em up.' He literally called (Warner Bros. Pictures president) Jeff Robinov up and said, 'Goyer just pitched me a take for Superman. We have to do this. I want to produce it. He wants to write it. We need to come in and tell you it.' We came in in a couple of days. I told Robinov and Alan Horn at the time what I told Chris. The next day they scuttled all the other plans that they were doing and made me a deal and I started slowly writing. From that point onward, Chris and I then started doing what we did on-what we do on the Batman films. We use index cards for the movie. So that's about a two month process. Chris and I do really extensive index cards and we meet usually three times a week and we just do board after board after board of index cards where Chris and I beat everything out. Then I went and wrote a treatment and then I started writing and that was the movie. Again, I don't want to give too much away, but it was really about-this story centers around the fact that the world finds out that Superman exists and he then has to-when we refer to him as an alien, we refer to him as Kal, and when we refer to him as a human, we refer to him as Clark. He then has to grapple with, in effect, does he want to be Kal or does he want to be Clark? That's his sort of cross to bear in this story. It's the story of two fathers Jor-El and Jonathan."
"You may see more of Krypton than you've seen in the other movies. We've had both someone who's working on the spoken language and a whole department that's been working on the written language in developing the glyph system has been something that (production designer) Alex (McDowell) and his team have been working on for six months. There's been a lot of back and forth on that. Even getting into the S, which isn't an S, which is one of the Kryptonian glyphs, and what it means. It's kinda cool because you'll see that in other iterations throughout the movie. But one of the things that we tried to do was depict Krypton as a legitimately alien world. So we decided that on Krypton, aside from the fact that it's got a different gravity, it's got a different atmosphere than we do, it's a mega gravity planet, so gravity there is anywhere from four to 10 times the gravity on earth. If we went to Krypton, we couldn't breathe its atmosphere. The sun radiates in a different spectrum of light. Different radiation and things like that, a lot more UV radiation on Krypton. All these things come into play and they also explain why Superman has the powers that he has. But, we also decided that Krypton has a much more formalized and socially stratified society than we do. So we liken Krypton to if you'd taken feudal Japan, but they had never encountered the West and then continued on in that system for the next 150 years, that's kind of what we imagined Krypton would be like. It's very formalized." When asked about the more "passive" Superman we saw in Superman Returns, David S. Goyer said this Man of Steel has more conflict than ever, which includes some lose-lose scenarios. "He has an enormous amount of conflict that he has to deal with in this movie both on a moral, personal level and on a physical level. But, he's also given a couple of choices in this movie that are terrible, terrible choices where either decision he makes, a lot of people are going to get hurt. So, one part of the fun and the challenge for us in this movie was for a guy that can supposedly do anything, can you put him in a situation where there may not necessarily be a right answer? Or, where even somebody who can do anything maybe can't do everything? I think we have come up with a legitimate threat, but the thing that we really, really, really focused on in this film was wanting the audience to identify with him, which for me, was always the challenge with the Superman character was I identified with Bruce Wayne or Batman. It was easier to pretend I could be him, but it was a lot harder to pretend I could be Superman or identify with him. He's a guy that seemed like he didn't have a lot of problems because he could do anything. So, I think we worked really hard to get you to identify with him and to get you to identify that he has a tremendous weight on his shoulders and a tremendous responsibility. Sometimes that could make him lonely, but like I said, it's not just coming up with the physical threat, but he's presented with a couple of choices in this movie that are terrible choices that I think hopefully people will identify with and emphasize with." The screenwriter also teased that there may be some new super powers that haven't been seen on the silver screen before.
"He's got a pretty deep rolodex. So, I won't say that we incorporated all the things we know. We handle a lot, and I'm pretty sure we're depicting a couple in this movie that haven't been seen on screen before, maybe. I'm not positive. I think our approach would be he might develop more as he goes on. We kinda came up with the approach the longer he is on Earth than the more exposed to our sun and our atmosphere, the more things he might develop." After our chat, we stepped back outside to watch new scenes being filmed, where Superman and the Kryptonians are being shot at by a military helicopter. Why? We have no idea. As you can imagine, there were several questions that would not be answered by anyone, and, surprisingly enough, most of those questions still remain unanswered today, just a few weeks away from its release, which, in this day and age, is quite impressive. Some set visit I go on, we get most of the whole movie spelled out for us, except for maybe the ending (sometimes not, though). I did not expect that to happen on this particular visit, I was still insanely impressed with what I saw, while still dying to know more. We were later joined by producer Charles Roven, who, like David S. Goyer, worked with director Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight trilogy. While a bulk of the production took place in Chicago for Metropolis scenes and Vancouver for the heavy CGI sequences, Charles Roven spoke about coming to this small town of Plano, to capture Clark Kent's hometown of Smallville, and why Man of Steel was the right choice for the title. "It is called Man of Steel because that's the right name for it. Man of Steel needed to have a real Americana sensibility, at least if we were going to deal with any of the part of the story that had what shaped Clark. So, we wanted to make sure that we shot it in a place that gave us that sense of Americana and small town. Smallville has always been a small town. We needed to find that kind of a place. We also needed to find a place that was extremely film friendly, ideally would give us a rebate of some sort. You know, all the factors that go into picking a location. I would say one of the most critical aspects is finding a community that's going to let you do what the great people from Plano did, which is let us take over the center of their town and turn it into our town and be happy that they were doing it. So, Plano hit off every one of those marks. When you think about it, and other places didn't, so that's what brought us into Illinois. I've made two other films in Chicago. Chicago has been just an amazing film friendly place and we felt that, once we decided that we would be in Illinois, we thought about where we were going to get another big city look, which we had to have. We had to have a place that would be Metropolis, Chicago just seemed a natural fit. I've had previous good experiences shooting here. Chicago has just got a great skyline that could be altered to fit what we want Metropolis to look like. It's 45 minutes away, an hour away. Then finally, Vancouver, the Snyders have had really a lot of success shooting films in Vancouver. They really also like the crews there. They think they're really great. We did need a city where we could get some weather looks that was around a filmmaking center as opposed to like, just say a place like Los Angeles, although it's tough to shoot in Los Angeles these days, or down in Louisiana where there is a lot of shooting, but you don't get a lot of different weather looks. We wanted to have a number of different weather looks and Vancouver afforded that and also again it's a film friendly city. You get a number of different potential rebates and it doesn't really matter what sized budget you're working with. All of those soft money issues become increasingly more and more important."
"We want the film to feel that it could be real. We really do. That's really important to us. We want the drama to play real. We want the character's emotional choices to play real. So, in everything that we've done from the way that Zack is shooting the picture to the way we decided how to do our best to make sure that you're feeling like you're there both in terms of the production design and in terms of the visual effects, in terms of the practical effects, we've really tried to do our best to deliver that real feeling in every aspect of it. So, we're really mindful of that thing. I don't want to compare us to another movie. I don't want to say we're going to do it different than that, but our goal is to make things feel real. We know that the more real elements we could figure out a way to put in there, like that craft that you saw in the barn, it's going to make you feel like, 'Gee, we're emotionally connected to the drama.' We feel that's really important and we want to deliver that." Charles Roven discussed the storyboarding tendencies of director Zack Snyder, and how carefully everything was planned out before shooting began. "We certainly went into the shooting of the film with a script that we all felt was essentially locked, not that you don't do tweaks and whatever as you go through the process of making the movie because the actor brings so much and you realize you might need actually a little bit less of this and a little bit more of that. The same thing as you do in the action. So, the script was really essentially locked before we started to shoot. While we didn't do 100 percent of the storyboards before we started shooting, the vast majority, Zack's storyboards, all of them I'm sure Deborah mentioned to you, he storyboards everything, not just the action, he storyboards everything. It's how he gets to focus his mind's eye on what it is that he wants out of each scene. So, this is really a film that did have quite a lot worked out before we started shooting." We had two more interviews that fateful day on the set, with star Henry Cavill and Zack Snyder, which are so fascinating and wide-ranging I thought they should be pulled out separately. clickHere for the next part of our Man of Steel set visit. Man of Steel comes to theaters June 14th, 2013 and stars Russell Crowe, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Michael Shannon, Laurence Fishburne, Christopher Meloni. The film is directed by Zack Snyder. | ||
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