Before he got to play with giant monsters and machines with the upcoming Pacific Rim Uprising, former Daredevil showrunner Steven S. DeKnight spent several years working as a co-executive producer on the fan favourite Superman prequel series Smallville.
During an interview with Screen Rant to promote the release of the Pacific Rim sequel, DeKnight has been discussing the challenges of bringing Superman to the screen, as well as praising Zack Snyder’s take on the Man of Steel.
“Superman is one of the hardest characters to write for. One of the brilliant things about Smallville is it’s all about Clark,” said DeKnight. “He wasn’t Superman yet. Superman’s very different from Batman. Batman is this dark, psychologically messed up guy, Superman’s the man we all aspire to be. He’s inspirational and to try to find the human side of that, and not to mention, he’s so powerful it’s harder to relate to him so it’s very, very difficult.”
“I actually really like what Zack Snyder has done with that character,” DeKnight continued. “It’s a super hard, very tricky character to do and like I said, if we were doing on Smallville, if he were Superboy on Smallville, I don’t think it would have worked.”
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This isn’t the first time that DeKnight has expressed his admiration for Snyder’s Superman – back in January, he was linked to the director’s chair on Man of Steel 2, and clarified that his preference would be to see Snyder returning to helm the sequel. Do you share that opinion, or would you rather see someone else taking the reins? Let us know in the comments below…
