Zack Snyder Compares SUPERMAN to Zeus and Says Viggo Mortensen Isn’t Cast

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So Zack Snyder is calling his Superman reboot his most realistic movie to date. Snyder has been talking Superman talk all week long and we have a tidbits of what he's saying and what he means. He describes Superman as the top dog in the superhero pantheon and even takes a jab at Marvel. He also mentioned that the Viggo Mortensen rumors are false, he hasn't been cast.

When Snyder spoke with The Playlist he compared Superman to Zeus. Check out what he had to say and it's pretty cool;

I’m a fan of ‘Iron Man’ movies, but really? ‘Iron Man,’ a whole franchise of movies, ‘Iron Man 4’? Fair enough, but the fact that we don’t have a ‘Superman’ movie in the midst of this is crazy. It would be like if we were making a movie about all the Greek gods, but no one had made a movie about Zeus because they’re like, ‘I don’t know what to do with him, he’s too awesome.’ We’re at this point where all of these minor Gods have movies and franchises, and it just seems to me that it’s time to fix that… I think ‘Superman’ is broken and needs to be fixed, from a movie stand point. He is the biggest superhero on the planet, the father of every superhero. I’m like really ‘Thor’? Like really? It’s like the world is out of balance. It’s like we lost our mind here people, ‘Come on.’

Snyder then jumps over and pays a visit to our friends at Latino Review saying this about Mortensen;