During last night’s BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters’ Lecture, the writer of Man of Steel and co-writer of the upcoming Superman Vs. Batman film, David S. Goyer talked about the controversial end of Man Steel, where Superman ends his mega fight with Zod by breaking his neck.
"We
were pretty sure that was going to be controversial," Goyer said.
"It's not like we were deluding ourselves, and we weren't just doing it to
be cool. We felt, in the case of Zod, we wanted to put the character in an
impossible situation and make an impossible choice.”
"This
is one area, and I've written comic books as well and this is where I disagree
with some of my fellow comic book writers - 'Superman doesn't kill'. It's a
rule that exists outside of the narrative and I just don't believe in rules
like that. I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on
a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.”
"So
the situation was, Zod says 'I'm not going to stop until you kill me or I kill
you.' The reality is no prison on the planet could hold him and in our film
Superman can't fly to the moon, and we didn't want to come up with that crutch.”
"Also
our movie was in a way Superman Begins, he's not really Superman until the end
of the film. We wanted him to have had that experience of having taken a life
and carry that through onto the next films. Because he's Superman and because
people idolize him he will have to hold himself to a higher standard."
THR,
reports that Goyer was asked if he was going to write the anticipated Justice
League film: "Might be, can't say,"
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