From Blastr: David S. Goyer is all over the comic book-movie genre, having written the original stories for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with Christopher Nolan, the Blade movies (as well as writing and directing Blade: Trinity), and he’s currently writing the script for Zack Snyder‘s Superman: Man of Steel. His foreword to the new graphic novel Superman: Secret Origins may have given away details of his approach to the new film’s story.
This excerpt from Goyer’s foreword seems to telegraph his intentions:
“There is a heart breaking moment halfway through the first chapter in which young Clark is told the truth about his heritage. He races out into the night, sobbing, stumbling through the cornfields. Eventually, his foster father, Jonathan, finds him.”
‘I don’t want to be someone else,’ says Clark. ‘I don’t want to be different. I want to be Clark Kent.’
‘I want to be your son’
“Right there in that moment, Geoff contextualized Superman in a way that I’m not sure has ever really been done before. I had an ‘aha’ experience when I read that. For the first time I was able to grasp how lonely Clark must have been when he was growing up. And what a sacrifice Clark must continually make by being Superman.”
“As I write this, I am midway through my first draft of a new Superman screenplay. It’s a task that has stymied many talented fimmakers in the years since Donner’s film. And for all I know, it will end up stymying me as well.”
“But I’ve got one advantage that the screenwriters who came before me didn’t have—and that’s access to all the wonderful Superman stories written by Geoff Johns—first and foremost being the SECRET ORIGIN issues reprinted in the very volume you are now holding”
So did Goyer give himself away? Given the news that General Zod may be appearing in the new film and not the Secret Origin comic, I seriously doubt it. Goyer is much too smart to so blatantly give out spoilers like this, especially since the super-secretive Nolan is overseeing the project.
I believe it’s likely that Goyer’s script will be in the same spirit as Secret Origins, with Clark Kent questioning whether or not he wants to take up the mantle of Superman. Goyer is just too good a writer not to leave us some surprises.
What do you think of this news? Will Secret Origins influence the new Superman movie?