Russell Crowe played Superman’s biological father Jor-El in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. He didn’t die once, but twice. That kind of makes it difficult to bring him back in future installments, but if it could happen Crowe would like explore the burgeoning relationship between Jor-El and Zod (Michael Shannon).
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“What sparked my interest once I saw how Zack [Snyder] was creating Krypton. I’d like to see what made Jor-El, Jor-El.” Crowe told MTV. “What made him and Zod, who are folklorically friends, what split them apart.”
Well, David Goyer is working on a Krypton television series for the SyFy Channel that will surely explore Jor-El’s origin story, which means we’ll probably get that payoff on the small screen.
Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice leaps into theaters March 25th, 2016.