The Big Three of MAN OF STEEL's Creative Team

In counting down these final three months leading to the release of Man of Steel, it is important to first take a look at the key individuals responsible for creating it in the first place.  This "big three" of the movie's production is composed of writer David S. Goyer, producer Christopher Nolan, and director Zack Snyder.

Film and television writer/director/producer David S. Goyer helped develop the story and is solely credited with the screenplay for Man of Steel.  This is far from new territory for Goyer, as he has gradually become one of the most sought-after men in Hollywood for comic book films and other similar adaptations.  His ever-increasing resume in the genre includes having also developed the story arc and written for Christopher Nolan's incredibly successful Dark Knight Trilogy, as well as directing Wesley Snipes in 2004's Blade Trinity and serving as producer and writer of the recent Ghost Rider films starring Nicolas Cage.  Like everyone in Hollywood, he has his hits (the global phenomenon of Nolan's three Batman films) and misses (the critically panned, aforementioned Ghost Rider films) yet his creative services remain unwavering in an era when movies concerning costumed vigilantes and the supernatural are more prominent than ever before.

Goyer's working relationship with Christopher Nolan, as alluded to previously, goes back well before the upcoming Man of Steel.  Around 2003, when Nolan was awarded the task of bringing Batman back to the big screen (and essentially back to cinematic relevance after Batman & Robin sank the original franchise), he admitted that while he had a fondness for the character, he in no way considered himself educated enough in the superhero's extensive lore to do the character justice.  He then turned to Goyer in developing Batman Begins, who admits in the special features of the DVD/Blu-ray release of the film that it had been a lifelong dream to write a Batman film.  The two then co-wrote the screenplay and made a tentative story arc for any potential sequels.  2005's 'Begins was both a critical and financial success (although each of its two sequels would later make its $500 million earnings pale in comparison) and three Nolan-directed films and $2.5 billion in worldwide gross later, Goyer and Nolan have again teamed up to try to bring another iconic costumed character back to silver screen prominence, this time with Batman's own DC Comics colleague, Superman.

Showcasing on film the grandeur of a god among men in the twenty-first century requires a certain ambitious, artistic eye.  Warner Brothers and Nolan have thus enlisted visionary director Zack Snyder, whose more recent past directorial experience includes a remake of Dawn of the Dead, Sucker Punch, as well as adaptations of the famed graphic novels 300 and Watchmen.  While the heavily visual style Snyder brings to his films is often maligned and sometimes deemed as distracting, his creative vision is not to be denied, especially in his ability to blend real-life characters and emotion into worlds that appear to jump right off the pages of comic books or other imaginative works of art.  Snyder hence becomes a very promising choice for director, and it'll be interesting to see more footage of Superman's infinite powers set against the backdrop of a world more grounded in our own reality.