SubscribeNote: We woke up this morning with our first look at Superman from Zack Snyder’s upcoming Man Of Steel flick. This isn’t the perfect look at the costume, but there are a couple points of interest. Note the honeycomb fabric used on it, not unlike Marvel’s Thor movie design. I’m also intrigued by the hints of some sort of side-thigh design you can make out on this. Let us know what you think! Click on the image for a hi-rez version. – Chris A.
tsfogg
/ August 4, 2011Can’t tell if he’s wearing red shorts or not, but I like it! It definitely looks promising. I love the big, old-school Supershield. I’m a little iffy on the texture, but I don’t hate it and I was really kind of expecting it. The colors are a little muted, which I also expected. I can’t wait to see it in action!
Nathan J. Norman
/ August 4, 2011Wow! I love that this Superman has muscles accentuated! (The last one looked rather wimpy.) I like the honeycomb around the base of the costume, but not on the shield. Also the S-shield looks a bit too large (it sits too high on the chest, too far on the pecs and it looks way too thick). I love the way the cape looks, though.
I also think it’s interesting that we can’t see whether or not he has the red outer-undies or not.
Overall, I like this and am anticipating this movie way more than I anticipated Superman Returns.
Tom Brazelton
/ August 4, 2011It looks like a continuation of the Synger costume only they switched out nylon with snake skin for some reason. Nic Cage would have been right at home in this costume!
Interesting that they’re going with the slicked back look on the hair. Reminded me of Dean Cain’s Superman.
The size of the shield is right, though. Should be big, bold and prominent.
Ben Hatke
/ August 4, 2011No red undies. Hm.
TLCraigen
/ August 4, 2011I don’t mind the fish scale on the blue, but the pattern on the logo looks weird. Also the to much starch in the cape folds is odd. Other then that it’s Superman minus the hair curl.
nick
/ August 4, 2011hHding the red pants? or perhaps lack of them
I want a better look at the s sheild it appears to have a more organic design than has been traditionaly used. glad to see the clasic belt design brought back
i dont see any need for the flash of colour on the thigh but have no strong objection to it
but im not in favoer of tinkering for the sake of tinkering
(now wondering if the thigh flash has been used to bring red in in place of the oft ridiculed tighty reddys)
the textured fabric may work better on a moving image
i like to think of supes costume as sleek and elegant the texture i feel takes away from that
Overall I think I could watch this movie without bitching about the costume to mutch so ill call it a win.
JDW
/ August 4, 2011if you look closely there looks to be extra material on the uhh.. love-handle area. and there seems to be a lack of red shorts, not unlike the reboot design.
Seni
/ August 4, 2011Not too bad. Though the “S” could be a tad bit smaller.
Marcus C
/ August 4, 2011My thoughts:
-I’ve usually been a fan of that honeycomb-wetsuity textile, but for some reason it just reads as wrong in the case of Supes. Maybe the honeycombs are too big, maybe it’s the fact that the suit looks slightly ill-fitting around his wrist, but it’s not really working for me here.
-The chest shield should definitely not be textured.
-Is he wearing the red undies, or are they trying to popularize that awful Jim Lee redesign?
-As with the chest shield, I’m not crazy about the same texture being applied to his boots. It gives the overall look that he’s wearing a onesie that was stamped with a particular texture – basically it looks like a cheap costume, rather than a majestic kryptonian hand-me-down.
-I’m still very uncertain about the casting of Henry Cavill. He doesn’t look like Superman at all to me, and his hair is WAY too bouffant.
Jose
/ August 4, 2011Where is the spit curl!!! As long as they stay away from the overly Militaristic new reboot version!!! Pattern on the Shield looks odd.
Jonathan
/ August 4, 2011I love the bigass shield, and the huge, billowing cape. That’s the way Superman should be — big, bold, and powerful. He’s an icon, after all, not a mascot. He ought to champion his logo, like a samurai’s sashimono, not aim for subtlety like it’s a bad T-shirt design, and this costume does just that.
But the texturing? I dunno. I wouldn’t mind it so much if they left it on the blue parts, but it’s on absolutely everything. It’s even on the boots! What’s the deal with that? I sorta get that they want it to look more like armour, like chainmail almost, but they went overboard here. It just makes Supes look silly. Almost as bad as that embossed webbing on Raimi’s Spider-Man costume (I never liked that).
But aside from that, I think it’s pretty great.
Chris Graves
/ August 4, 2011The cape looks ridiculously long. It feels like he’s going to sling it over his arm while he walks, like snobby Kryptonian royalty or something XD
I like that they figured out a way to attach it though! BRandon Routh’s cape looked like it was suffocating him.
Looks like the basketball textured suit is going to be the hot new Superhero style next year.
Daniel Heard
/ August 4, 2011Seems like the are going more medieval regal than the last movies sports speedo approach. It’s certainly a way to go with it. The chainmail texture also implies a second “Alien” skin, which is very appropriate, and reminds me of Michael Chabon’s thesis about superhero costumes that they actually are vibrantly colored absence of clothing.
Happy to see the crewneck collar that Calamity Jon reminded us is so important.
Travis
/ August 4, 2011I love just about everything about this. Love the big shield. Perfectly fine with the textures. The cape seems long, but definitely works for cinematic purposes. Such a dramatic shot. Noticed the little change on the wrists – Nice addition that doesn’t break with tradition. I’m betting the thing on leg matches this blue material, not red. He looks strong… and his costume looks like it’d hold up right alongside him. Officially excited about this movie.
Jay
/ August 4, 2011Now we can stop asking “How did Peter Parker make that suit?” and start asking “How did Ma Kent make that suit?”
This guy is a bit too bulky for Superman, but that’s another issue. Too dark – that’s my issue here. Sure, tweak the suit to be more modern by adding or excluding certain elements but keep the colors bold. They desaturated the colors for the last movie and it just didn’t work and now they darkened it even more? A mistake IMO.
Texture on the ‘S’ and boots seems like a bad idea since now the don’t match the cape. Also, that cape sure is long. I hope they kept the red underwear but looks like they’re gone to me. But in the end it’s recognizable as Superman and will do fine for the movie.
I just hope he spends less time stopping bank robberies (as the picture suggests) and more time dealing with “someone his own size.”
Arkwulf
/ August 4, 2011The texture is a little much over the shield, but I love the shape and texture of the cape.
The Chez
/ August 4, 2011According to the article below he does have red trunks!!!
http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/movie-stills/gallery/3543/man-of-steel-stills
Looks ok, it’s just the expression/lighting here makes him look evil, along with the muting of the colors. maybe tone up the blue a little bit or make it muted lighter shade of blue. Superman (unlike batman) should look inviting, like someone you want to see or someone whose very presence is lifts the mood (like Santa Claus in a christmas party)
Dedpool
/ August 4, 2011Now THAT is SUperman. A lil Lee Bermejo flair with the design and I like it.
Pj Perez
/ August 4, 2011@marcus c “-I’m still very uncertain about the casting of Henry Cavill. He doesn’t look like Superman at all to me, and his hair is WAY too bouffant.”
The weird thing is that Cavill has naturally great hair to play Superman/Clark Kent – dark and wavy. I don’t know why producers always seem obsessed with slicking back Superman’s hair. The John Byrne approach made sense to me: As Clark Kent, he is mild-manned, and slicks back his hair modestly, but in action as Superman, he is flying all over, and his hair drops, tousled about and free.
Karl Savage
/ August 4, 2011If you open this image in photoshop, then increase the color saturation by 50 then the brightness by 50, you get a much lighter, much more colorful Superman promo photo. There’s no need for it to be so dark and muted.
The Chez
/ August 4, 2011hmmm fixing grammatical error…does not have red trunks*
DoctorSmashy
/ August 4, 2011I don’t know what it is, but when I look at this I see Superman. Even though I don’t like the costume texture (especially on the S shield) and his hair looks too big in this pic, but somehow I’m getting the Superman vibe that I unfortunately didn’t get with Brandon Routh.
Ben
/ August 4, 2011Somehow, the hair, the S, and the texture give me the impression of a spitting cobra more than a farm-raised alien. Not sure I like “unnerving” Superman.
Toom
/ August 5, 2011What a mess. The texture is a terrible idea; it looks like videogame chainmail or cheap carbon fibre. What does Superman need an armoured look for? HE’S SUPERMAN. Extending it to the shield is disastrous, it’s too busy. The subtle webbed texture on the Routh outfit worked because it still looked like fabric; near-futuristic and slightly alien, but still, something that was recognisably clothing. This looks…rubbery. Look at that stupid-ass collar where the cape connects, it’s got seams like a dang action figure! It looks like it’s clipped into his collarbone with a tab! Look at the cape generally – I like the length, the dramatic flair of it, but those artificially starched pleats at the shoulders are just terrible. Of course, this is just a promo image, and some of these elements could easily be the product of some overzealous Photoshoppery, but still, it’s not promising.
Also, I know this is just a promo image, but the desaturated colours? On Superman? Really? Superman is the nice one! He’s the big blue symbol of hope! If they make him all grimdark and broody I am going to boot Zack Snyder’s nuts clear off his body.
Captain America just now showed us that you can make a bold, colourful, upbeat superhero picture in the current climate and have it succeed; why take Superman down an artificially gritty route?
TeejTurtle
/ August 5, 2011I think this image is showing him getting up after getting hit by Zod maybe, as the damaged all in the foreground and the dent in the bank door suggest to me. Not him riping it off or stopping a robbery.
I like the suit. It’s Superman. The texture on the red and yellow is a bit too much and the cape is a bit too long but overall I like it. The loss of the red trunks isn’t a big deal to me as it works for film not for comics. Plus I think the dark blue is a bit darker due to image tinkering and that he’s inside a bank with poor lighting.
My only nit pick is his hair. Me and my friend couldn’t stop laughing as we had constant Saturday Night Fever jokes of what Supes will be doing to win over Lois.
Dennis
/ August 5, 2011The shield from the last movie was textured as well (with tiny S shields). Thankfully, the new cape is fabric instead of rubber or whatever they used last picture. I wonder if the cape is made from the same stuff used in 300.
It certainly looks like a Zach Snyder version of Superman.
Toom
/ August 5, 2011Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly my gripe with it :/.
Daniel Heard
/ August 5, 2011If we are using costume color saturation as the measuring yard for how dark and gritty a movie can be, then Captain America would’ve been more like Papillon. Caps costume was varying hues of and grey brown. This looks actually fairly on par with that. So . . .
SOKO
/ August 5, 2011Middle aged guido superman?
It looks like Sopranos Cosplay
I’m noticing …
Superman never needs the functional texture suit like the other heroes that we have been seeing – because he is invulnerable. Also, historically he’s worn his suit under his clothes ( at times ). This isn’t that plain under the clothes get up that a Superman fills out… So maybe there is a reason for it other than to look cool ( clark kent is not about that ). Is this the new DC reboot superman that we don’t care about? is this the classic hero that most other heroes are based on?
MollyTheWanderer
/ August 6, 2011I’m 90% happy with this. I love the hair, I like shape of the costume (he’s muscley!), I like the cape, I very much like the ‘aura’ of the actor, he FEELS like Superman. I dont like the texture on the costume so much, they do know his mom made this thing out of some blankets, right? But other than that, I’m happy. Hope this movie feels more like Sky Captain (stylized, not a part of the real world, just a little campy) and less like Great Expectations (which I found boring, preachy and still havent finished).
MollyTheWanderer
/ August 6, 2011This picture makes me wonder if the movie guys have a panel of geeks to screen ComicBook movie stuff to before they unveil it to the world. I think that would help.
Dash McCool
/ August 7, 2011I think it looks terrible. Apparently Clark shops at the same auto parts store as Peter Parker from the Raimi Spider-man flicks. Where do these guys buy this carbon-fiber-in-a-can stuff they spray all over themselves?
Superman isn’t a dark, gritty hero — he’s good and just and wears bright primary colors. The suit is an emblem, his chest design a logo. It’s not supposed to be Batman-style combat armor.
Adama
/ August 7, 2011Well, it looks like Superman, at least till we see what is happening with the exterior side of the hips and tighs. Not big fan of the texture, Can live with it in the blue part of the suit, but doesnt make any sense in the shield and boots. I’ve always seen the red parts of Supes suit as being the same material and feeling than the cape, this textured treatment for everything makes the cape seem dull…
Lets wait for another pictures for final judgemente. Cavill is fine by me.
Ken
/ August 8, 2011I like the selection for the actor (though the classic spit-curl is missing?!). I don’t care for the costume, however. The texture is just wrong for Superman – this is the one guy who doesn’t need fancy weave or armor for a suit. I could understand if they want to go with a slightly darker blue than the traditional color (though I would hope that they’d compensate for that with a brighter red and yellow).That having been said- keep the texture simple.
Dody
/ August 8, 2011this might be the inspiration (based on the emblem)
http://metropolisplus.com/Superman/Superman%20Painting.jpg
Toom
/ August 8, 2011Alright, maybe not the best comparison (although Cap gets a pass on that, because, well, he’s a soldier – it’s a uniform, and it’s got a measure of protective armour to it). But the dude was still charging around in a bright blue bodystocking, smacking Nazis around in a totally pulp serial fashion.
But making Superman dark and broody would still be a profoundly silly move. It’s like making a Spider-Man reboot and deciding “man, this character’s pretty cool, but does he have to be such a nerd?”
Ren Malone
/ August 10, 2011The honeycomb fabric on the shield is definitely overkill. I like the red a lot better here than the last movie though, and I think the darker blue will work better on film than what we have seen so far. His hair looks fine to me. The cloth material for the cape is tons better too, and it looks cool as long as it is, but I’m pretty sure Supes’s cape in the comics only goes down as far as his knees.