Superman – born on a planet which has long since died – has been raised by adoptive parents on the Kent farm in Kansas. The young boy Kal-El is renamed Clark Kent, and though he has grown up among humans, he is not one of them. Under Earth’s yellow sun, he can do things humans can only dream of, but to co-exist with them he must live a dual life as mild, unassuming Clark Kent, secretly transforming into the Man of Steel when the world cries out for him.
“Everyone has grown up with one version or another of Superman,” says Dan Harris, who wrote the screenplay with Michael Dougherty. “Whether we knew him from the comic books or the small screen or the big screen, we all know the Man of Steel. It’s as simple as that.”
The Phenomenon and the Filmmaker
Since mysteriously disappearing from Earth five years before, Superman has traveled to the far reaches of space in search of his past and traces of his family, or others like himself.