
"My version of it which was with J.J. was so expensive, because we were shooting on a planet," explains director Brett Ratner. "We were shooting a civil war on Krypton so to build the planet was a little expensive especially for Warner Bros. and with an unknown actor. So I just couldn't see myself as doing 'Tom Cruise as Superman.' I just thought that it had to be unknown the same way Christopher Reeve was an unknown."