I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult. David S. Goyer Read Quote
During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences. David S. Goyer Read Quote
Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn’t even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn’t added until the ’60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times. David S. Goyer Read Quote
When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishing but they couldn’t. That’s why they, and a lot of Jewish guys, went into comic books. David S. Goyer Read Quote
There’s been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it’s ‘E.T.,’ ‘Starman,’ or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that’s what a Superman story really is. David S. Goyer Read Quote
I will say that adapting a character like Da Vinci really wasn’t that dissimilar from doing Batman or Superman. Because all three of these guys are really iconic figures, and yes, Da Vinci was historical, but there’s clearly been a lot of mythmaking about him, and a lot of things have been attributed to him that may or may not have happened. David S. Goyer Read Quote
You have to decide what kind of story you’re going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like ‘Toy Story 3,’ which isn’t realistic at all, is really emotional and involving. It just depends. I played this game called ‘Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP’ for iPad that is totally old school 8-bit, which I found very moving. David S. Goyer Read Quote
Batman Begins’ came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly… I can’t tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, ‘We want to do what you did with ‘Batman’ but with ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’ or whatever. David S. Goyer Read Quote
I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn’t look like us or even be humanoid, like ‘E.T.’ David S. Goyer Read Quote
What Christopher Nolan and I have done with ‘Superman’ is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the ‘Batman’ trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in. David S. Goyer Read Quote
