Man of Steel | film by Snyder [2013] | Britannica (original) (raw)
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Adams
In Amy Adams …Henry Cavill as Superman in Man of Steel (2013). She reprised the character in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017); a different cut of the latter was released in 2021 as Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Her other roles from 2013 included a con artist in… Read More
Cavill
In Henry Cavill: Superman …cast as Clark Kent/Superman in Man of Steel (2013). He later admitted that he had missed the call from director Zack Snyder offering him the job because he had been playing the online game World of Warcraft. To portray the Man of Steel, Cavill transformed his body, adding so much… Read More
Costner
In Kevin Costner …2013 with the Superman film Man of Steel, playing Clark Kent’s adoptive father. In 2014 Costner portrayed a veteran CIA agent in the thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, a spy trying to manage his family life in 3 Days to Kill, the general manager of an NFL team in Draft… Read More
Crowe
In Russell Crowe …as Superman’s father, Jor-El, in Man of Steel (2013); as a New York crime boss in the fantasy Winter’s Tale (2014); and as the titular biblical figure in Noah (2014). Read More
DC Comics
In DC Comics: DC characters in television and film Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013) earned more than \$600 million and served as the foundation for the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), a shared storytelling world for all of DC’s film properties. Later films in the DCEU included Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, in which… Read More
discussed in biography
In Zack Snyder: Career …directing the Superman origin story Man of Steel (2013), a reboot of the Superman film series. He followed Man of Steel with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), a film about the tension and eventual collaboration between DC’s two main superheroes. Warner Brothers was pleased with Snyder’s work and… Read More
Fishburne
In Laurence Fishburne In the Superman movie Man of Steel (2013), he played Clark Kent’s newspaper-editor boss. He reprised the role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Fishburne’s other films from 2016 included Passengers, a sci-fi romance about hibernating space travelers heading to another planet. Read More
In Superman: The modern era The result was Man of Steel (2013), directed by Zack Snyder and starring Henry Cavill as Superman. Although the film was a critical disappointment, it grossed over \$600 million worldwide. The sequel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), earned more than \$800 million globally, but the film’s… Read More
