#CAST OF KRYPTON MOVIE#

While that film depicts Krypton as an icy, frozen wasteland, its cities are kind of clustered together. This shot also reminds me of the first time we see the surface of Krypton in (you guessed it) the 1978 Superman movie. So, we’ll go in order of…well, we’ll just go in whatever order I feel like rambling about, OK? You can also see another city way the hell off in the distance, also under a dome. – In our first look at Krypton’s surface, we see the city of Kandor in the foreground. I’m not going to be able to shut up about it whenever we’re discussing Superman in general, or this show in particular. It’s the thing that got me into comics, superheroes, and science fiction in general.

#CAST OF KRYPTON MOVIE#

By the way, I wrote a ton about all the weird Krypton and DC stuff in Man of Steel right here if you want to read it.īut they’ve also drawn on Richard Donner’s Superman (which we’ll get into in a minute), tons of deep comics lore, and designed this world top to bottom on their own.Ī word of warning before we go on, Superman (1978) is my favorite movie of all time. But it’s neat that they’ve gone for a similar aesthetic when it makes sense. The producers have been quite clear about that fact. Please note that Krypton is not a Man of Steel prequel, despite these similarities. Here’s a look at the surface of Krypton from Man of Steel for comparison’s sake (and yes, that is Wegthor in the upper left hand corner). I spoke to Goyer last year about the show’s development and he said he had written countless pages of notes on Kryptonian history when he started prepping for Man of Steel, and wished that segment of the movie was even longer.

Goyer, who wrote that film, is an executive producer and co-showrunner on Krypton, and he co-wrote the pilot, too. The depleted, desert look of Krypton, and that particular color scheme, looks very much like the version we got in that film. In later years that became a stylized depiction of Krypton’s red sun instead.īut you can also see some visual nods to the 2013 Man of Steel movie. While this certainly isn’t explained as anything in particular, I have to wonder if this is the shattered Kryptonian moon of Wegthor, destroyed by a nuclear missile, and one of the reasons that Kryptonians are pretty sour on space travel.Įven if this isn’t actually intended to be Wegthor (but I bet it is, because trust me, the folks behind this show have left no Superman stone unturned in their quest to bring this show to life), having a slight ring around the planet Krypton is a nod to the earliest appearances of Superman’s father, Jor-El, in the comics, where he was often depicted wearing a tunic with a ringed, Saturn-esque planet on it. From the opening shot, Krypton is surrounded by a ring of debris. Krypton doesn’t waste a single second getting into its Superman lore.

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