Safe travels Miss Lane, it's highly unlikely we'll be seeing each other again. I can teach you and in turn you can teach Kal. We can stop them, we can send them back to the phantom zone. I designed this ship, I can modify its atmospheric composition to human compatibility. The command key Miss Lane thanks to you, I'm uploading into the ship's mainframe. Embodied within that hope is the fundamental belief the potential of every person to be a force for good. The symbol of the House of El means hope. They won't necessarily make the same mistakes we did, but if you guide them, Kal, if you give them hope, that's what this symbol means. The people of Earth are different from us, it's true, but ultimately I believe that is a good thing. The dream your mother and I dedicated our lives to preserve. No, you are as much a child of Earth now as you are of Krypton. Your mother, Lara, and I were a product of the failures of our world as much as Zod was. That's why we risked so much to save you. Krypton's first natural birth in centuries. What if a child dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended? What if a child aspired to something greater? You were the embodiment of that belief Kal. Your mother and I believed Krypton lost something precious, the element of choice, of chance. Every child was designed to perform a predetermined role in our society as a worker, a warrior, a leader, and so on. All Kryptonians were conceived in chambers such as this. Your mother and I foresaw the coming calamity and we took certain steps to ensure your survival. Eventually, our military leader, General Zod, attempted a coup, but by then it was too late. As a result, our planet's core became unstable. The outposts and space exploration were abandoned. For 100 thousand years our civilization flourished, accomplishing wonders.Īrtificial population control was established. We built outposts on other planets, using great machines to reshape environments to our needs. This scout ship was one of thousands launched into the void. Long ago, in an era of expansion, our race spread out through the stars, seeking new worlds to settle upon. You came from Krypton, a world with a much harsher environment than Earth's.
Where do I come from? Why did you send me here?
I am your father, Kal, or at least a shadow of him. Crowe was last seen in Paul Haggis' The Next Three Days last year and Ridley Scott's Robin Hood before that.To see you standing there having grown into an adult. This announcement is perfectly timed, as DC Comics is about to launch Green Lantern in theaters this week. I'm looking forward to seeing Crowe play an important fatherly role like this, but it'll be hard for him to live up to Marlon Brando's Jor-El.
Zack Snyder's Man of Steel is already set to star Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Kevin Costner & Diane Lane as Clark's Earth parents, Jonathan & Martha Kent, and finally Michael Shannon as the Kryptonian villain Zod. That must mean this role is very important to the story, which is great to hear, especially because this is a strong cast Snyder pulled together. Though other talented actors like Viggo Mortensen and Sean Penn have been vying for the role (Variety says "Christopher Nolan had all along been seeking an A-list thesp for Jor-El"), it was Crowe who finally agreed to it in the end. A follow-up entitled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was released in 2016. It follows Clark Kent on a journey to discover who he really is and battle against his kind led by the renegade General Zod. Wow, did not see this casting coming! Russell Crowe playing Superman's dad in a Zack Snyder-directed reboot of Superman? Awesome! Variety is reporting that Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe has been set to play Jor-El, Superman's biological father from Krypton. Man of Steel is a reboot to the Superman franchise and the first film in the DC Extended Universe.