Warner Bros. released the first teaser image of the new Superman for their upcoming 2013 movie Man of Steel. The actor is Henry Cavill.

Smashy! Smashy!

I’m in different. Mostly because I’ve never been a big Superman fan. The picture is cool, but at this point it’s nothing more than a tease for a movie two years away. A great tease, sure, but it’s little more than a Halloween costume really. I guess it gives us an early look at the Superman costume.

And it’s really dark. Really really dark. So much for the brightness of Superman. He’s also smashing a vault of some kind. That’s an improvement over not really smashing anything in Superman Returns. But all this picture screams is ‘DARK’. Warner Bros. really wants a dark and gritty Superman movie, so I guess they’ll get one.

But I’m not exactly opposed to that. As I said, I’ve never been a big Superman fan. I like the themes and what he stands for more than the actual character. Which is too bad, since both Clark Kent and I are mild-mannered reporters. So if DC and the WB want to make a dark and gritty Superman movie, I’m not about to complain. The original Superman films were alright. I saw them for the first time only a few years ago, and they were OK. Superman Returns was terrible because it was just a love letter to those original films.

Hopefully with Man of Steel they can try something new and actually exciting with Superman. If it has to be dark and gritty, so be it.