Hur gör man egentligen en intressant historia runt en superhjälte som i princip är odödlig och moraliskt perfekt? Detta var bara två av de många problem som Zack Snyder tvingades jonglera med när han skrev manus till Man of Steel, en film som gav oss en ganska annorlunda version av den Superman de flesta är vana vid. Ämnet dök upp under en diskussionspanel på Snydercon där regissören berättade ganska utförligt om problematiken med karaktären.
"My whole take on Superman is ... my intention is not that Superman's angry, it's more that he is troubled by Earth, because Earth is problematic to him. The whole idea of Superman in its iconographic form ... the potential is that he doesn't have any problems, right? He's a god on Earth and he can pretty much do whatever he wants and ... we don't have a lot to say about it. Which is Lex's problem with him and ... Batman's problem with him."
Snyder förklarade hur det enligt honom handlar om att skapa problem som direkt påverkar Superman själv och tvingar honom till handling.
"So, for Superman, the real work is to make him have problems. That's the work of Superman — make him have, whether it be romantic issues ... or whether it's moral conundrums about what his role is as far as interfering in the lives of humans or not ... and also all the stuff that we all, in some ways, experience on a small scale as just humans. That's really the work of making a Superman movie relatable ... you want to be where he is emotionally having to grapple with his own humanity."
Vilken av alla filmer genom åren anser du bäst har lyckats fånga Superman och haft en engagerande historia att bjuda på?
En svår filur att göra film om.