When the DC Extended Universe launched in 2013 with Man of Steel , moviegoers saw Henry Cavill ’s Clark Kent share some poignant scenes with his adoptive father, Kevin Costner ’s Jonathan Kent. Sadly, the first of this era’s DC movies in order didn’t show Jonathan getting to see his son become Superman because he was swept up in a tornado. Over a decade later, Costner recalled what he thought when reading Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel script, as well as gave his hot take on that tornado scene.
Costner reflected on the Man of Steel script, which was written by David S. Goyer off a story he crafted with the Dark Knight trilogy’s Christopher Nolan , while speaking our own Sean O’Connell and fellow ReelBlend host Kevin McCarthy about his 2024 movie Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 , which is now playing in theaters, saying: It’s just my luck to be in a superhero movie and be the only person that’s normal. I was like, ‘Really? I can’t fly? And I can’t put my first through the wall? Maybe I should have read this thing closer.
I’m a farmer?’ So I looked at that and I said, ‘Ok, I can be that.’ I thought it was rooted in doubt. But there was no doubt that he puts his hand up and says, ‘Stay there’ to his son.
Kevin Costner was the second actor to play Jonathan Kent in a live-action movie, following Glenn Ford in 1978’s Superman . While Costner was no stranger to starring in more fantastical cinematic stories by that point, with that portion o.
