Max Landis Responds To Zack Snyder's Superman Is Canon In Man Of Steel Claim

Zack Snyder is drawing some heat online regarding his recent statement about his Superman in Man of Steel being comic book canon.

“If you actually read Comics, you know I didn’t change Superman,” Snyder told the Hall Of Justice podcast.

Now big-time Superman fan, Hollywood screenwriter, and writer of the DC Comics Superman: American Alien comic book, Max Landis, takes to Twitter to comment on Snyder’s remarks.

Below you can check out the tweets, which includes mention Snyder’s remark is: “…one of the strangest claims I’ve ever heard a director make: that they did the ‘canon’ version of a multicanon character…”

Regarding Snyder’s comments about keeping the characters in the movies “canon,” we can’t help but ask does the same apply to Doomsday and Aquaman?

Anyway… below you can also check out Landis’ popular “Death and Return of Superman” pitch as well as his Man of Steel reaction video following the tweets.

Because of my various Superman videos, a lot of people are asking me for my opinions on Zack Snyder saying “his Superman was true to canon.”

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

If you don’t know, I’ve publicly expressed that I felt Man Of Steel was strangely dark, brooding, humorless and violent take on Superman.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

I personally found this choice bizarre, as it’s so radically different than the hopeful, gee-whiz tone of the vast amount of Superman lore.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

But I’m not going to criticize the specifics of what Snyder is saying, though I am bewildered by its meaning.

It’s a crazy thing to say.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

I don’t want to waste time arguing whether or not the brooding, extremely quiet christ figure in Man of Steel is “accurate to canon.”

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

First of all, flatly, it isn’t in line with most portrayals of Superman, which is fine. That’s fine. Snyder did his own thing. But canon?

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

If you know comics, and if you know SPECIFICALLY DC comics, you know that “canon” has been…problematic. pic.twitter.com/YYs0IkDOUH

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

So saying “I did the ‘canon’ version” of an everchanging character, implying you did the ‘real’ version of Superman, is a weird thing to say

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

Which real version? Golden age that couldn’t fly? Silver age that was basically a god? Modern age with the mullet?

What does canon mean?

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

It’s one of the strangest claims I’ve ever heard a director make: that they did the “canon” version of a multicanon character.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

I don’t want to start any kind of shitstorm that I’m “shitting” on Snyder or anything, but it is a weird, weird thing to say.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016

Clark killing Zod was not a problem for me personally.

I found the circumstances very problematic. https://t.co/ZW8lPlFw46

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) February 6, 2016