Series creator David S. Goyer will continue to serve as executive producer.
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Via ComicBook.com, Goyer offered up a few new details of the prequel series, which itself looks to chronicle Superman’s homeworld with the Man of Steel’s ancestor in the lead.
Report says that the setting of “Krypton” will be “200 years prior” to the destruction of the planet.
Steve recently sat down with Goyer to discuss the new season of his Starz series Da Vinci’s Demons, and took the opportunity to ask Goyer about the status Krypton.
MAN OF STEEL opened with a thrilling prologue set during the fall of Krypton as Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and Lara Lor-Van (Ayelet Zurer) fought to send their son to safety.
None of the current DC-based television series are connected with DC’s movies, but that will change with Syfy’s Krypton.
Though the show will mostly be set in the capitol city, Kryptopolis, Goyer teased that other metropolises and the planet’s three moons could make appearances on-screen as well.
“I think we kind of started the trend with “Batman Begins, ‘” said Goyer, who wrote the Christopher Nolan Batman films as well as the upcoming “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”. The first draft, the first forty pages were on Krypton, so we compressed that all down to fifteen minutes and there were a lot of ideas that I wanted to use in the film that didn’t ultimately make it into the film”. Considering all the projects already on Syfy’s (Corporate owner of Blastr -Ed) plate at the moment (The Expanse, Childhood’s End, etc.), it’s not much of a surprise that something had to slide to the backburner. I was always fascinated, as a kid, with the books about Krypton and they’ve only shaded in a tiny bit, so we’ll learn about the politics of the world.
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The “Man of Steel” writer said he intends to bring it back in a few years’ time when Leonardo da Vinci is over a decade older, reported Digital Spy. Tell us about it.
