Abrams commented, in the run up to recent grimdark Superman reboot Man Of Steel, on the similarities between his script and Zack Snyder's film. There actually is a lot that Flyby and Man Of Steel have in common, not least of all the importance of Krypton in the film. Obviously Krypton's fairly important in every Superman story - it is where he comes from and all. Man Of Steel spent its first twenty minutes on the planet, with the hero's father Jor-El getting up to all sorts of action-packed shenanigans before jetting his son off to Earth. Flyby also involved Superman's dad, only this time he was immersed in a civil war, pitted against his corrupt brother, Kata-Zor. A trio of Kryptonian villains figure as heavily in Flyby as they do in Man Of Steel, lead by main antagonist Ty-Zor: Kata-Zor's son and so, Superman's cousin.