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
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).