0:39
Kevin Costner plays Pa Kent (and supplies the trailer's narration). It's all quite clever; invoking the father-son themes of Field of Dreams while allowing us all the joy of anticipating watching that guy from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves die onscreen from a heart attack.
Hey, I just realized the narrator in the alternate version of the trailer is provided by Russell Crowe, who plays Jor-El (Superman's actual father, duh). Crowe also played Robin Hood. Too bad the likelihood of an archery contest between these two paterfamilias is pretty much nil.
0:46
Wait a minute...can Superman even grow a beard? I remember old-timey Supes talking about never having to shave on Earth, but I've seen enough alternate future pics (and Superman III, of course) to know this isn't set in stone.
Still, beards are how we traditionally identify evil intent. Have I been wrong about my dad all these years?
1:02
Krypto! This movie's going to be awesome!
1:16
Okay, all kidding aside, that was pretty badass.
I have no idea why Clark Kent is doing time on the Downeaster Alexa at the beginning. I know the main villain of the film is General Zod (who will be played by the inestimable Michael Shannon), so maybe it's some variant of the Superman II plot, with Superman stripped of his powers or something.
At this point, DC and Warner Bros are doing everything but handing the keys to the studio over to Christopher Nolan. It makes some business sense to give the guy who's generated almost two billion dollars in box office revenue some measure of control of your other comic franchises, but...Superman isn't the kind of character who tries to "find himself." I was never a fan of the comic as a kid, but it's for precisely that reason -- that he seemed so inviolate, with hardly any flaws -- that I mostly ignored his character. Even so, this On the Road stuff seems out of place.
Probably no chance of a Puzzler appearance, either.