Man of Steel was a huge hit at Comic-Con, even made a fanboy cry! So it would be no surprise that a teaser trailer for the film would be shown in-front of The Dark Knight Rises, as Nolan co-wrote the story of Steel but is also serving as the producer. So when I saw Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures and DC Comics logo shown in-front, my heart was beating that I finally get to see footage of the upcoming Superman movie.
The music is taken from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by Howard Shore (as Hans Zimmer hasn’t started composing music for the film yet), already setting the mood that the film may take with the new Superman movie. It shows Henry Cavill not as Superman but as Clark Kent, sporting a scruffy beard and looking to be traveling the world.* Though we do see shots of Kent farm, though as if this was a Terrence Malick film. We have a voice-over by Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner)**, implying to be talking to Clark by saying what you’d expect he would say; that he would grow up to do great things. We see shots of a young Clark Kent running around in backyard, wearing a red cape that foreshadows on what will lead to the inevitable. We of course get the title cards, reading ‘From Zack Snyder – Director of Watchmen and 300‘ (luckily they didn’t list Sucker Punch and hope they continue to do so) and ‘And Producer Christopher Nolan – Director of The Dark Knight Trilogy‘. Finally, the last shot we all been waiting for; Superman himself. Though starts off with an aerial view of an unspecified location, then we see a small figure flying up to the sky. The camera zooms in and get a glimpse of Superman as he flies in an unimaginable speed!
That’s all that really is to say about the trailer, it really is the meaning of a teaser. I am interested where this Superman film will go but honestly, Superman is the complete opposite in tone to Batman. I am all for different approaches to characters, rather go to the same route to be safe but Christopher Nolan’s influence (for better or worse) is a bit much. I do hope it’s all part of starting really grim and eventually grows to being bright and uplifting as the story develops. We’ll just have to wait and see when it is released on 14th June, 2013.
* – It was nice to see a shot of Clark Kent trying to hitch a ride and the road was leading up to Whistler in British Columbia, Canada (probably a different location in the film but still cool nonetheless).
** – I have now just found out that there are two versions of the teaser trailer, same footage but two voice-overs. One I saw in front of Rises was with Jonathan Kent and the other is Jor-El’s voice (Russell Crowe) which you can see on Apple website (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/manofsteel/)