The marketing campaign for Zack Snyder‘s Man of Steel has been measured compared to that of most superhero movies. Warner Bros. is actually treating it as something more than just another spectacle movie, and most likely because they know how much is riding on its success. If they are ever going to get a Justice League movie off the ground it starts here.
This morning I have for you a new TV spot that debuted last night, but I didn’t really see the point in posting it at midnight when everyone was asleep. Now that you’re awake, give it a look and see what you think.
Man of Steel hits theaters on June 14.
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Henry Cavill plays Superman in director Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel.” The film also stars Amy Adams as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Laurence Fishburne as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Diane Lane and Kevin Costner.
Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Michael Shannon, and Faora, Zod’s evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman’s native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s mother, played by Ayelet Zurer, and Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Russell Crowe. Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy.
