ScreenJunkies.com recently conducted a phone interview with director Zack Snyder about his epic action fantasy film "Sucker Punch" and were able to get a few more details about his Superman reboot. Here's an excerpt:

ScreenJunkies: It seemed like you’d done your comic book movies with 300 and Watchmen, but was Superman just too good to pass up?
Snyder: Yeah, and in a lot of ways it’s a different thing for me. It’s a chance to do it for real. I think 300 and Watchmen are both particular in their graphic novels. I almost don’t even see them as superhero movies. I see them as they’re both novels. It’s all about the story and the way the story exists as a work of literature. For me, Superman is a whole other thing. He’s a character that we get to explore. I can make a movie that’s not an indictment but really a celebration of the character.

ScreenJunkies: Are you working with DC or is it all you, Nolan and Goyer?
Snyder: It’s all me, Nolan and Goyer. I mean, I meet with the DC guys but they don’t really [get involved.] It’s all us figuring it out.

ScreenJunkies: I know you’re starting over, but did you like the Bryan Singer Superman Returns and the Richard Donner movies?
Snyder: Yeah, I love the movie, I love the Superman character and I like the movie. It’s just we felt like we had to shed all that in order to start again and find the why of the character over.

ScreenJunkies: Do you imagine doing slow motion flying and fighting?
Snyder: I don’t know. I think the thing I’ve been thinking about with this movie is that it’s kind of its own thing in a lot of ways. I guess we’ll see how the action unfolds but the way I talk about Superman, the way I’ve been talking to everyone about shooting it is trying to get Superman to exist in the real world and be a character that lives in our world. So it’s a much more realistic, it’ll probably be the most realistic movie I’ve ever photographed.

ScreenJunkies: And there’s no Lois in this version. Is that the reason to do it, to strip away the things we know?
Snyder: Oh, there’s no Lois Lane? I didn’t know that. I don’t know what that means.

ScreenJunkies: You’ve cast well known actors in the supporting cast, Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. Is that a different way to approach the cast?
Snyder: I just felt like Kevin and Diane are both amazing talents and they’re serious. I think it just sets the tone of what we’re trying to do.

ScreenJunkies: What is your schedule like the next few weeks, or year?
Snyder: I go take the movie to Europe tomorrow. I fly out to Paris tomorrow. Then I go to London and Copenhagen. Then I come home and I just dig into Superman and we start shooting at the end of the summer.

ScreenJunkies: Do you do storyboards and drawings yourself?
Snyder: Yeah, I’m drawing like crazy.

Check out the complete interview at ScreenJunkies.com.