MAN OF STEEL Costume Illustrator Talks Superman's New Suit

I really hope the teaser footage is the official teaser trailer we will see in front of TDKR.. its so damn awesome.. anything lesser than that will be.. :(

I hope the trailer goes online soon after TDKR is released though, cause at all the cinemas I go to they never show the new trailers when they're supposed to.
Though still this movie is looking better and btter with everything I hear and the costume is very much growing on me.

i swear cavil does not look like himself in that bank vault pic. I swear up and down thats a different actor

Love the suit and the whole direction of the movie. That footage was great from what we could see.

I thought he said there would be a shorter one or a shorter version of that in front of TDKR?

This sounds awesome! But a year does sound like a long time for post production. I'm happy to wait if it means top notch special effects!

[frick] masterchief


also i cant wait to see this damn trailer already , i hope zod suit isnt cgi though , thinkin of greenlantern it might fail .

"So phillip, what does a costume illustrator do?"

Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahaha!

Zod armor? Yes please!

@wolf

Aliens prefer freeballin'

@sbdc1939

I just can't wait to see The Dark Knight Rises, regardless of trailers... but yeah, I'm excited too.

but if it looks anything like Sucker Punch, I'll sucker punch Synder's head off.

Just looked up his website!

He has some impressive work up there. Worked for a lot of big names! And he looks so young! Props, Mr. Boutte Jr.!

The guy didn't know what the New 52 was... Fail

@ CoolantTek: He's a costume designer... My first dorm roommate was a costume designer.... most aren't big on comics. So I wasn't really surprised about that.

@JULEZ13 OK so since he deigns costumes for superheroes he should be up on All the new comics, Right?.. For ideas

for me the red underwear always unintentionally (or perhaps intentionally) draws the eyes away from the Man of Steel's face to... well... his steel.

Red just draws the eye and putting it on his groin just makes things awkward. Who that was a good idea in the first place, anyway?

Just like you ain't gonna see Wolverine in a yellow and blue leotard, or this armor in an Iron Man movie...

some things just need to change.

Comic book fans have to understand that these films are not just made for them, but to mainstream audiences to justify the cost of these things.

I'm okay with the new design and trying to update the suit to an extent, but this guys argument for it is pretty weak.

I mean your argument for the trunks being gone is that it's a more human look? Please, that is a very weak argument.

I mean I can buy that it's a bit easier and maybe a bit more realistic for the suit to instead come from Krypton instead of it somehow being unwoven and sued together by Martha Kent without cutting the fabric in any form or way. Clark would have at least needed to help with his heat vision.

There is still the argument that the suit is considered to be dated to a lot people; even called gay or ridiculous because it looks like he's wearing underwear over tights. But even then some would argue that just getting rid of the trunks doesn't really make it that much less "silly," too.

So to each his own I guess; however, I don't hate the redesign it's grown on me a bit and the costume is the only issue I've seen either-way. Until we see more of the film itself we can't just judge the movie solely on the tweaks in the suit.

So far the teaser footage has gained mostly positive responses; that gives me hope for this film to be good.

I'm sure they followed some form of "logic" to end up with the suit we see, the problem is they shouldn't have even gone down that road. That "logic" by-passes pop-culture and audience expectations. We're not talking about a new character. Superman has been around for decades.

The key element to a successful film is the story. Using a suit that better-matches previous incarnations, with a good story, wouldn't be any less successful.

It won't matter if a new superman hitches up with the other members of the Justice League if they all look different.

I do like the costume though. I must be an alien then cuz underwear is like wearing two pairs of pants whether you wear em inside or out.

Haven't seen the trailer yet I can't wait to see it!!!

Because of Superman, I've decided I don't need to wear underwear either :)

That interview did make me feel a lot more comfortable about those lines on his suit, I must say.

@yossarian -lol, so true.

I HATE these same commercials that play ALL THE TIME. Maybe someone post from another source with these vid clips that arent going to keep showing thats stupid rubber suit nuns with guns. its LAME

hmmmm question on the new 52 look had a edit point. Guess someone didn't like the answer

@SuspenseSmith actually the shorts work well for concealing his "steel" because they can make it looser like in some depictions in comics so you see less crotch buldge. The crotch bold in that costume is impossible to ignore. I found the new 52 costume belt pretty much being an arrot pointing at his "steel". They are going to have to do a lot of post editing to conceal crotch buldge

Hm. wonder why he likes Supes costume so much