Man Of Steel may become one of the biggest movies of the summer, according to a Friday Forbes report.

Projected tickets sales suggested a $100 million opening weekend, with advance sales and planned attendance polling likely taking that number up to about $120 million.

The film even may rise above some of the negativity surrounding the last Superman movie, 2006's Superman Returns. The latter made a considerably modest box office take of $400 million. The report added that any success from Man of Steel would be a coup for DC Comics, whose characters - save for Batman - have mostly been left out of the rise of the superhero genre. Green Lantern, from 2011, was considered a flop, having made only $200 million.

Man of Steel does have behind it some of the people who made the Batman trilogy into a phenomenon -- director Christopher Nolan produced the film, and Nolan collaborator David S. Goyer wrote it.

The film will be retaining a possibly controversial scene in which Superman encounters a deadly tornado, according to The Associated Press.

On May 20, the town of Moore, Okla. was struck by a EF5 tornado, which killed 24 people. Another storm struck last week, causing the death of another nearly two dozen people. Director Zack Snyder kept the scenes in the film because he believed the film's tornado provided a formative experience for his main character.

"He's changed by those events," Snyder said in an interview. "If anything, we feel like our Superman has a connection - not to make light of it - to the kind of grief that happens during those kinds of natural disasters. Also, in a sad way, even Superman can't change that."

The film's Superman, Henry Cavill, gave his best wishes for all the victims of the recent disasters, saying, "It's a terrible tragedy, mother nature doing its thing."

"I hope that everyone who can salvage things can salvage things," he said, "grieve if they need to grieve, move on from stuff and repair and rebuild, if they have the opportunity. I can't even imagine what it's like."

Man Of Steel is due out in theaters on June 14.

Check out a trailer for the upcoming film.

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