David S. Goyer, the writer of Man of Steel, is a big fan of James Gunn’s Superman – and he likes one character in particular.

Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel deserves a lot of credit. The Christopher Reeve Superman movies had become such cultural icons for the character that the one time prior to Man of Steel that anybody tried to make a new Superman movie, they just tried to make a Christopher Reeve movie with different actors.

Although Superman continues to dominate the domestic box office after two weeks, the Man of Steel hasn’t translated quite the same way to international audiences. Director and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn recently commented on the movie’s international haul of $173 million,