Well this is odd but maybe not totally unexpected.
According to Entertainment Weekly Superman's greatest weakness, kryptonite, will not appear in Man of Steel. In keeping with the reality based nature of the film (as much as film about an alien with superpowers CAN be realistic) the producers felt at this point kryptonite wasn't essential to the film and in any case it's been in every previous Superman film. To me this is just another example of how much the people behind Man of Steel want to distance themselves from the previous films which I'm all for. Additionally, the producers are all about relatability. Check out what producer Charles Rowen had to say:
You want to give the audience great spectacle. You want them to go to the movie, be eating their popcorn and be like, ‘Wow!’” But it’s just not good enough to give them the ‘Wow.’ You want them to be emotionally engaged. Because if you just have the ‘wow,’ ultimately you get bludgeoned by that and you stop caring.
God bless you Mr. Rowen. I wish everyone in Hollywood felt this way.
You know I'm really not as upset about this as I thought I was going to be. I think there's no doubt this film is going to kill at the box office and have sequels so there will be plenty of time to have kryptonite in the next film.
Man of Steel opens June 14th.
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