Henry Cavill's Clark Kent has many, many questions… and we'd be all too willing to help him find the answers.
*Ahem* Sorry.
But we're sure you'll forgive our filthy minds wandering after you've seen the first TV spot for Man of Steel, in which Cavill is shirtless and delicious and, erm… doing some acting or something.
Word is that this updated take on the Superman story will be all about gritty realism… sort of.
Weta Digital's senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri told Bleeding Cool: "I can't talk too much about Man of Steel yet, and I haven't seen the whole thing yet, but overall it's the story that's most exciting. It's a nice re-envisioning of the story of Superman leaving his homeworld and coming to this new one.
"If you look at what Zack [Snyder] has done you'll see that they've abandoned a lot of the pretence that was in the comics and asked 'Can we still make this work?'
"They're sticking to realism as much as possible. Fantastic elements are still there but a lot of it has been trimmed back to make it feel as though this actually happened."
Zack Snyder has reassured fans that he's "not trying to take the super out of Superman," however.
"We're approaching Superman as if it weren't a comic book movie, as if it were real," said screenwriter David Goyer in an interview with Empire last month. "It just struck me that if Superman really existed in the world, first of all this story would be a story about contact.
"He's an alien. You can easily imagine a scenario in which we'd be doing a film like E.T., as opposed to him running around in tights. If the world found out he existed, it would be the biggest thing that ever happened in human history."
"[Superman] is looking for his place in the world," explained Deborah Snyder, who co-produced the film with her husband. "He is a little lost when we find him, trying to figure it out. That makes him very real. You can relate to the humanity in him."
Man of Steel, which also stars Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Russell Crowe as Jor-El and Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent, hits cinemas on June 14.
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