It arrived at a time when superhero cinema was largely shaped and defined by the trauma of 9/11. The film’s depiction of Kansas neatly mirrors that of the rural heartland in Nolan’s Interstellar a year later. Nolan helped choose Snyder to direct Man of Steel and received a story credit on the finished film. It exists in the context of Christopher Nolan’s groundbreaking Dark Knight trilogy and the nascent Marvel Cinematic Universe. Man of Steel arrived in cinemas in June 2013, just a year after the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. There is a clear thematic arc running from Man of Steel through to Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and that arc is a meditation on the nature and function of superhero movies.
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