If you read my review of "Man of Steel"--you know that I had issues with movie on many fronts...But like so many fanboys --it was the ending that really got me where Henry Cavill's Superman kills Michael Shannon's General Zod.
While giving a lecture for BAFTA and the British Film Institute the film's screenwriter David S. Goyer discussed the much debated coda:
"We were pretty sure that was going to be controversial. 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."
I still have issues with decision--despite the explanation.
Goyer was asked if he was writing the "Justice League" movie. His response simply "Might be, can't say."
Goyer is writing Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman/Batman team-up Man of Steel Sequel--due for release on July 17, 2015.
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