whole different galaxy.

"They also re-released [Stanley] Kubrick's 2001 when I was seven, so I got to see that on a huge screen, and it was really a thrilling experience. I don't remember being remotely concerned about what it meant or whether it was elusive or confusing; I just remember the visceral nature of seeing spaceships, seeing other worlds and being taken to other dimensions. That experience was huge for me."

Nolan knew what he wanted to do for a living very early in his life.

He told The Hollywood Reporter: "I'd already started playing around with my dad's Super 8 camera, making little war films and stuff. And then, after Star Wars, my films all became space films.

"I think when I was about 12 or 13, I want to say,over as Superman, I really started to love that character,'" said Schnepp, imagining an alternate present in which Cage was even more successful and beloved than Robert Downey, Jr. "‘He became more human to me. He wasn’t like a weird god. I could empathize with his character.’ I’m dead serious! That’s what would’ve happened."

In the mid-‘90s, nearly 10 years since the release of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Warner Bros. set out to reboot the Superman film series, but in the most ambitious, bombastic way possible. Rather than build on the foundation built by Richard Donner and Christopher Reeve, Warner wanted to turn the mythology on its head. Popular comic nerd Kevin Smith penned the screenplay, based on the groundbreaking Death of Superman comic series. Later, they