According to some sources, today is the birthday of Kal-El, son of Jor-El and Lara, but actually, this would be his Earth birthday, not his Kryptonian one because I’m not sure we know his Kryptonian date of birth. At any rate, it was on this date that the future Clark Kent, aka Man of Steel, aka Read More …
On the fourteenth of June in 2013, Zack Snyder’s box office hit Man of Steel was released with The Tudors‘ Henry Cavill in the title role. Russell Crowe appeared as Kal-El’s birth father Jor-El, a role for which Clive Owen and Sean Penn had been considered. Crowe incorporates how his own fatherhood informed his reading of the script Read More …
Superman a.k.a. The Man of Steel debuted as the cover feature of the anthology Action Comics #1. In 2014, an original copy sold for over $3.2 million!
It’ll lead to Russell Crowe – I promise. While U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt was throwing out the first ball at a season opener between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics, a little something unrelated was also happening. On April 18th – although the official cover date would be for June of that year – Read More …
While some sources list December 1st as well as February 29th as the “official” date (depending on which universe and/or revamp you’re considering), many consider June 18th as the birthday of Clark Kent (aka Kal-El of Krypton, aka Superman). The date is when Martha and Jonathan Kent discovered the rocket containing baby Kal-El; the child Read More …
More Images of Russell Crowe as Jor-El in Man of Steel, which was released on this date in 2013. Seeing the bottom image of Jor-El revealing his armor with the familiar “S” symbol reminded me (so I went and found a photo) that this was similarly used once before in a Superman movie – the Read More …
Man of Steel had its’ United States and United Kingdom release. The movie starred British actor Henry Cavill (best known up until then as Charles Brandon on the hit TV series The Tudors), in addition to Russell Crowe (as Superman’s father Jor-El), Kevin Costner (Jonathan Kent), Amy Adams (Lois Lane), Diane Lane (Martha Kent), and Michael Read More …
The problem is, after doing a bit of reading (and I could have missed the information, and if I did, I’m sorry), I was unable to pin down what you’d call an exact date for this except it was in June of 1938. So since today is the anniversary of one of Russell’s movies, I Read More …