After a villainous teaser earlier this week that seemed straight out of The Dark Knight Rises, Warner Bros. is clearly hoping that Zack Snyder‘s upcoming Superman film Man of Steel can connect on the same level. The studio has gone as far as bringing back Christopher Nolan to shepherd the project, with a script from David S. Goyer. The writer himself also recently opened up about the upcoming project and how it relates to Nolan’s hit trilogy.
“We’re in the same place we were at with Batman Begins. If you think about Batman Begins, there had been these previous iterations of Batman, the TV show, the Burton films. We were trying to do something that’s different. We were going against the tide. The public perception of Superman comes largely from the Donner films. Superman’s been preserved in amber since something like 37 years ago, and for the general public, he hasn’t really shifted since. Anytime you do something different, shake up the orthodoxy, you risk offending people,” Goyer says.
He adds, “Superman has been reinterpreted many times over the decades, and if he is going to remain a vibrant myth, he needs to continue to be reinterpreted. Hopefully, that’s what we’ve done and people will embrace it.” Judging from this latest full-length trailer, embracing the project shouldn’t be too difficult, as Snyder seems to have crafted a rather epic-looking new take on the famous superhero. Check out the new trailer below for the film starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni and Russell Crowe.
Man of Steel lands on June 14th, 2013.