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| Official Teaser Poster |
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| Henry Cavill as the new Superman |
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| Man of Steel? |
This blog entry won't be complete without an Action Figure feature. So here I am with the closest figure that I could get that would represent the new Man of Steel movie while I wait for the official Movie Merchandise. This figure here is actually from the much maligned Superman Return's movie which was starred by Brandon Routh. What made me bought this figure is that it has the Man of Steel's costume colors. The new movie does not have the blue hues of Superman, but instead it has a grayish blue hue to it. This figure caught my attention because of it's close resemblance to Man of Steel, well except for the red trunks. Man of Steel is going to be sporting the Red trunkless Superman of the New 52 universe which I don't really like. I'm still a huge fan of the classic Superman costume with the red trunks on. But there's a reason why they went with this costume. And some photos would show that Jor El will be wearing a similar costume in Krypton. So this costume comes from Krypton, not sewed by Ma Kent. This figure sports a pissed off Superman head sculpt and does not hold any close resemblance to Brandon Routh. If any, this figure would rightfully represent Henry Cavill's Man of Steel because I believe his version will be more tougher and angrier than Routh's. And as evidenced by his movie Immortals, Cavill can very much play a mean Superman that is ready to kick some asses. (more photos below as well as the movie's costume).
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| Bryan Singer's Superman Returns and Man of Steel |
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| The Man of Steel official costume |
More Photos here:
http://idlehands1.blogspot.com/2012/06/mega-ultra-super-suit-from-man-of-steel.html
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/12/comic-con-take-a-closer-look-at-the-man-of-steel-costume
(UPDATE) Saw this on you tube, a combined video of the SDCC Video Trailer and the Official Video Trailer released in cinemas.
(Taken from www.supermanhomepage.com)
It opens with a wheat field on a farm.
We then see a toy wagon flipped over in the grass.
A butterfly on the chain of a swing, it flutters its wings.
Cut to a shot of a man, walking alone on a snow-covered road. We see him from the back, walking towards the hills.
We see a young boy, running through a field of grass from the farm we saw earlier. He wears a red cape, tucked into the back of his white T-shirt.
Cut to a scene with a bearded Clark Kent sitting on the steps of a house on a cloudy day. A dog runs up to him, and he scratches the back of its head.
We are then back at the farm. We see the boy with the cape, we don't see his head. What we see is his torso, with his two fists firmly planted on his waist, in a signature pose that we are ALL very familiar with.
In the background, we hear what sounds like a combination of Jor-El and Johnathan Kent: "What if a child dreams of becoming something other than what society had intended? What if a child aspired to something greater?"
The scene changes to Clark being brought to a barn. A dusty sheet is pulled to reveal an intergalactic vessel that had been hidden there for years.
Clark holds a metal "S" shield, in the new design from the movie, in his hand.
Next we go to a completely different setting. We are no longer in a farm, but in a city.
We hear a woman's voice in the background: "My son was in the bus." It cuts to a teenage Clark, saving children from a school bus that had fallen off a bridge and crashed in the water. Clark is swimming to the bus, and he rips the door off. "He saw what Clark did."
Jonathan Kent's voice is then heard saying: "People are afraid of what they don't understand."
Jor-El is now seen standing before Clark. "It's not from this world Clark." Jor-El pulls opens his cloak to reveal the Superman suit's "S" Shield. "Take you're freedom. It's my conscience. Where I come from."
We now see Superman in his suit, long red cape flapping in the wind behind him. The first shot of him in the suit is from a distance, the second shows him walking across a snowy plain.
We hear Jonathan Kent's voice: "You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be Clark. Whoever that man is, he's going to change the world."
When then see a series of brief glimpses:
We see a glimpse of Superman flying.
A glimpse of him catching someone falling off a building.
A quick glimpse of Amy Adams as Lois Lane.
A glimpse of Superman being led down a hallway by police, with his hands behind his back, while in his Superman suit.
We catch a glimpse of Clark inside an elevator. The doors are closing, and right before we can no longer see his face, he removes his glasses from his face.
He hear Clark's voice: "My father believed, if the world found out who I really was, they'd reject me. He was convinced that the world wasn't ready." We see Lois approaching Superman as if they are about to kiss. "What do you think?"
There's a glimpse of a shirtless Clark, with his whole body on fire.
And finally, we see Superman being thrown into a giant bank vault. The same vault from his first promotional image. It looks like he's been thrown.
It finishes with a giant "S" shield, rotating on an axis, until you see the new "S" shield in all its glory. Followed by: "SUMMER 2013".
Story:
In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered character of all time. Clark Kent/Kal-El (Henry Cavill) is a young twenty-something journalist who feels alienated by powers beyond his imagination. Transported years ago to Earth from Krypton, a highly advanced, distant planet, Clark struggles with the ultimate question 'Why am I here?' Shaped by the values of his adoptive parents Martha (Lane) and Jonathan Kent (Costner), Clark discovers having extraordinary abilities means making difficult decisions. When the world is in dire need of stability, an even greater threat emerges. Clark must become a Man of Steel, to protect the people he loves and shine as the world's beacon of hope - Superman.
In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered character of all time. Clark Kent/Kal-El (Henry Cavill) is a young twenty-something journalist who feels alienated by powers beyond his imagination. Transported years ago to Earth from Krypton, a highly advanced, distant planet, Clark struggles with the ultimate question 'Why am I here?' Shaped by the values of his adoptive parents Martha (Lane) and Jonathan Kent (Costner), Clark discovers having extraordinary abilities means making difficult decisions. When the world is in dire need of stability, an even greater threat emerges. Clark must become a Man of Steel, to protect the people he loves and shine as the world's beacon of hope - Superman.
