<b>SUPERMAN IS BACK - THE OFFICIAL MOVIE NOVELIZATION!</b><br> <br> The film, from director Zack Snyder, stars Henry Cavill (<i>The Tudors</i>) as Superman/Clark Kent, three-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (<i>The Fighter</i>) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (<i>What's Love Got to Do with It</i>) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (<i>Unfaithful</i>) and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (<i>Dances with Wolves</i>).<br> <br> Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (<i>Revolutionary Road</i>), and Faora, Zod's evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman's native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman's mother, played by Ayelet Zurer, and Superman's father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe (<i>Gladiator</i>).<br> <br> Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy.<br> <i> </i><br> <i>Man of Steel </i>is being produced by Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer, from a story by Goyer and Nolan, based upon characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Thomas Tull and Lloyd Phillips are serving as executive producers.<br> <br> Currently in production, <i>Man of Steel </i>is slated for release on June 14, 2013 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.<br> <br> TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s12)