In honor of Superman's 75th anniversary, director Zack Snyder ("Man of Steel") has joined forces with DC's Bruce Timm to create a two-minute animated short film that combines many of the legendary animated hero's most memorable moments, which take place in an array of media including comics, movies, videogames and pop art. "People are going to be arguing about it. 'Why is that in there, but this isn't?'" Timm told Entertainment Weekly. "We had lots of different meetings about it. 'What has to be in here? What would be nice to be in here but is not absolutely essential?'" Scroll down to the bottom of the page to check out the film.
The animation pays tribute to a host of creators who've had a hand in Superman's various incarnations over the years, including original creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster to contemporaries like Jim Lee. Others include Curt Swan, Dan Jurgens, Neal Adams, Andy Warhol, Fleisher Studios, Alex Ross, the Smallville television series, Christopher Reeve, George Reeves, Henry Cavil and Timm himself, who worked on "Superman: The Animated Series". But Timm says he still couldn't fit in everybody. "I would have loved to have Kirk Alyn in there, the first live-action Superman from the serials, but he didn't quite make the cut," Timm told Entertainment Weekly. "And there have been several different Superboy shows, but we were like, 'Okay, those are Superboy, not Superman, so they don't make it.'"
"It was Zack Snyder's idea," Timm told the website. "We had approached him about maybe doing a short for the DC Nation program on Cartoon Network. He said, 'I'll think about it,' and then he had this idea to do basically the entire history of Superman in, like, a minute. We said, 'Okay ... whoooo.' We started working and quickly realized there was no way to do it, even in a minute." The Entertainment Weekly article also points out that the music for the short film is a kind of mash-up, too - one put together by Hans Zimmer with the help of John Williams' 80-piece orchestra which provided the iconic score for 1978′s "Superman: The Movie" as well as this year's "Man of Steel".
Director Snyder had originally planned for the whole short to pass without any cuts. Timm noted to EW that as is, it contains a few cuts, but said that "for the most part we stuck to that". He added, "The first cut is actually a great one: Classic comic book Superman becomes the hero from the Fleischer Bros. animated films, the character's first film appearance -- and the place where he went from jumping high to actually flying." Check it out below.
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