Man of Steel (2013) on Netflix
PG-1320132h 23mActionAdventureSci-Fi
The infant Kal-El is sent from the dying planet Krypton and raised in Kansas as Clark Kent, hiding the powers Earth's sun gives him. General Zod demands that Earth hand him over.
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Plot summary
Krypton is destabilizing from reckless mining of its core, and the council dismisses Jor-El's warnings. He infuses the planet's genetic codex into his newborn son Kal-El and, with Lara, launches the child toward Earth. General Zod's coup fails, and he and his followers are exiled to the Phantom Zone; Krypton is destroyed. The pod lands in Kansas, where Jonathan and Martha Kent raise the boy as Clark. Earth's yellow sun gives him powers, and Jonathan urges him to keep them hidden. Clark drifts between jobs, helping people unseen. In the Arctic, a Kryptonian scout ship and an artificial intelligence modeled after Jor-El tell him where he came from and that he was sent to guide Earth's people. Reporter Lois Lane follows the same story. Zod, freed from the Phantom Zone, threatens Earth unless Clark surrenders.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Man of Steel (2013)
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- A 2009 court ruling gave Jerry Siegel's family 50% of the rights to Superman's origins and Siegel's share of the copyright in Action Comics #1, and said Warner Bros. owed no additional royalties from previous films. But if the studio did not begin production on a Superman film by 2011, the Siegel estate could sue for lost revenue on an unproduced film.
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In the original script General Zod was going to be sucked into the Phantom Zone, but Zack Snyder and David S. Goyer found that unsatisfying and asked DC Comics whether Superman would kill someone if he had no choice. Christopher Nolan opposed the idea, so Goyer wrote the scene with the heat vision and people in imminent danger, which convinced Nolan.- Gal Gadot turned down a role in Man of Steel because she was pregnant then, which let her play Wonder Woman in the sequel. Alice Eve, Diane Kruger and Rosamund Pike were also considered for that role.
- Laurence Fishburne became the first African-American actor to portray Perry White in a live-action movie. He based his performance on the late Ed Bradley, a CBS 60 Minutes correspondent who was his friend, mentor and role model.
- Because a practical suit would have been too heavy, the Kryptonian armor worn by Michael Shannon's General Zod was built with CGI so the actor could have freedom of movement.
- The filmmakers tried to design a Superman suit that kept the red trunks but could not make one that fit the film's tone, so the trunks were dropped from the costume. The suit was designed by James Acheson and Michael Wilkinson.
