♦The movie will be called The Man of Steel, not Superman.
♦The story will rely on John Byrne's 1986 reboot of the character in the DC Comics, which he once described as "taking Superman back to the basics ... It's basically Siegel and Shuster's Superman meets the Fleischer Superman in 1986," according to Wikipedia.
♦The story will feature Lex Luthor and Brainiac, but is not an origin story.
♦Brandon Routh, who starred in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, won't be back, nor will Singer.