'Entertainment Weekly' Brings Us New 'Man of Steel' Photos and a New Twist on the Birth of Superman

With Zack Snyder's Man of Steel earning the cover of this week's edition of Entertainment Weekly, it's no surprise that the magazine has come through with a ton of new shots from the movie. You can check out all of the photos from the upcoming Superman reboot starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe and more after the jump, but first let's discuss a very interesting bit of information EW revealed about Man of Steel.

Jor-El (with Russell Crowe taking on the Marlon Brando role) still saves his infant son, Kal-El, by launching him away from the imperiled planet Krypton toward Earth. But in this version of Krypton, children are not born — they're engineered. "People were bred to be warriors or scientists or what-have-you, and there's a whole element in the movie about nature versus nurture," Goyer says. Kal-El is unique among Kryptonian babies because he's a natural conception, free from genetic manipulation to choose his own course in life — which also makes his existence highly illegal.

Wow. Snyder and company promised to reinvent Superman for the modern world, and they're definitely going to get some attention with this wrinkle. Kind of gives the Superman mythos its own version of the traditional virgin birth.