After revealing some interesting details yesterday (which you can find in RorMachine's article by clicking HERE) about the production schedule for the upcoming reboot of the Superman franchise Collider have now updated their article with more information from the same source. This includes specifics about where they'll film the movie as well as some plot details which make those rumours about it being based on Mark Waid's "Birthright" all the more likely sounding.
To follow up on the confusion surrounding my tip off about the Superman production timeline:
The scenes in Smallville aren’t the first thing in the movie but are going to be filmed first for convinience and won’t be a major part of the story but a key part.
I believe that the stand in for Metropolis will be Chicago and NOT Vancouver. This is one of the key reasons why The Dark Knight Rises has moved to Detroit because TDKR doesn’t have as many ariel shots as Superman and so the audience will not know the difference. The ariel shots in TDKR will be CGI enhanced as will the Superman shots.
There will be a Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year breaks during the shoot. Shooting in 2011 finishes on something like December 15th and won’t resume until January 5th.
The foreign shoots are for a montage scene and will feature Clark Kent. I believe the story says Iraq and Afghanistan but filming won’t take place there for obvious reasons and a stand in country will be chosen. The actual foreign places are being decided now and it may even film those desert war scenes in the US.
The UK studio is Shepperton Studios at Pinewood I believe and is where the Daily Planet interior scenes will be filmed as well as others which I won’t say.
What do you guys make of this new information? Be sure to share your thoughts in the usual place! Directed by Zack Snyder,
Superman: The Man of Steel is expected to be released in the Winter of 2012.
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