LOS ANGELES — It worked for Batman. Now, it’s Superman’s turn.
The Fox series “Gotham” has taken a look at the world of the dark knight crime fighter before Bruce Wayne ever decided to don a cape and cowl. The stories have focused on the supporting players, particularly the quirky band of villains that Batman will spend his career tossing into Arkham Asylum.
The new Syfy series “Krypton” takes the same approach but rolls back the clock two centuries. The series is set two generations before the destruction of Superman’s home planet and follows Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe), the Man of Steel’s grandfather. He is faced with a life-and-death dilemma of either saving his home planet or letting it be destroyed in order to restore the fate of his future grandson. DC characters Brainiac (Blake Ritson) and Adam Strange (Shaun Sipos) will be helping Seg-El with his struggles.
Anyone who has seen a Superman movie or read a comic book knows what’s going to happen. Just before the planet Krypton explodes, a baby Kal-El will be placed in a rocket ship and sent to Earth. That means there is a definite ending spot for the show if there are no changes to the character’s mythology. But there has never been any hesitation to tweak the history of DC comic book characters for the big screen and “Krypton” could continue that trend.
Executive producer David S. Goyer says: “This is really an untold story, and time travel is involved. What that means is that the ending of our show history could be changed, and what happens in this show could be very different than the sort of backstory that most people know.”
