Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel deserves a lot of credit. The Christopher Reeve Superman movies had become such cultural icons for the character that the one time prior to Man of Steel that anybody tried to make a new Superman movie, they just tried to make a Christopher Reeve movie with different actors.

The ‘Superman’ director also shut down rumors that DC Studios is looking to cast an actress “with a TV-centric resume, akin to Supergirl’s Milly Alcock" for the titular role.