11 Flat Out Lies We Were Told Just To Sell A Movie (And We Stupidly Believed)

10. "It€™'s Set In A Realistic World" - Zack Snyder On Man Of Steel

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Given the success of The Dark Knight Trilogy'€™s gritty realism, DC were quick to make this their distinct style to distance themselves from Marvel'€™s carefree and silly Cinematic Universe. For the new take on Superman they were going to take a particularly interesting approach; if The Dark Knight was how a costumed hero would work in the real world, Man Of Steel would show how the real world would react to an actual superhero.

And that'€™s what Zack Snyder and co. said all the way through production, throwing out trailers with Dark Knight undertones and things looking more than a little grounded compared to the Richard Donner flicks. But just as with Kick-Ass 2, where the characters keep saying they€™'re in the real world despite people with superhuman strength present throughout, simply saying it doesn€™'t make it so.

The world of Man Of Steel to begin with seemed like ours (if with a grainy filter), but as it devolved into never ending punch-ups the fantasy crept in; Metropolis seemed remarkably unpopulated in the destruction and Snyder seemed a lot more bothered with upping the sci-fi element than human interaction (hence why few of the human characters are actually memorable).

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