MTV News caught up with Cavill at this weekend's WonderCon, the San Francisco comic and arts convention where he was promoting his latest effort, a Greek mythology action-adventure film called "Immortals." In his first on-camera interview since being cast as Superman, Cavill discussed why it's so important to stick to the Man of Steel fans know and love, all while giving it a fresh, new take.

He said he has read the script and revealed that, in addition to staying "true to the source material," it's "basically just a re-imagining and a modernization of an iconic character."

EW sat down with Brain Peterson, and got some details on the final episodes (Including some major return characters!)

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Cavill is a guy who has been on the cusp of superstardom for a while now.  He was almost James Bond.  He was almost Bryan Singer's Superman.  He even read for Batman at one point.  And yet, in each of those moments, someone else ended up playing the part.  Now, finally, on the strength of his work in "The Tudors" and the early buzz around his performance in "Immortals," it feels like Henry is having that moment.

Sitting down with him today, most of the conversation had to do with "Immortals," but we did take the time to talk about stepping into the suit of one of the most recognizable characters on Earth.  My impression of Cavill after spending a few minutes chatting with him is that he's a dynamic choice for the role. 

We spoke a bit about Superman during our time together, and while we'll have our full "Immortals" conversation for you later, we wanted to share the "Superman" stuff with you immediately, since there's such intense curiosity about who he is and what he's going to bring to the role.

I already knew that with today's technology, we will believe a man can fly.  What's far more important is believing in him as a person, and I think in Cavill, Warner Bros. has finally found the man for the job.

Cavill spent months on Tarsem’s Immortals, maintaining six percent body fat, and, he jokes, competing with his co-stars to see 'who had the best abs,'" Movieline reports, following an investigation. "I'm not quite in Immortals shape like I was, but I’ve got the base there again," Cavill said. "When you see the Immortals shape you’ll see what I mean. We obviously haven’t had the final brief yet [on 'Superman shape'], it’s going to adapt and change as [my trainer] sees my body adapting to the training. He’ll go, ‘Okay, Henry can do this,’ or, ‘His body will look better like that.’ It’ll be fine-tuned and tweaked as we go along. But I think it’s going to be a different sort of shape from Immortals.

Bruce Timm told fans at the "Green Lantern: Emerald Knights" panel at WonderCon this weekend that the next Warner Bros. animated film would be titled "Justice League: Doom", and would be loosely inspired by the "Tower of Babel" storyline from the comics.

The script for the animated movie was the final work of Dwayne McDuffie. The original story was published in "Justice League of America #43-46" and was written by Mark Waid and illustrated by Howard Porter.

Batman's greatest rival, Ra's al Ghul continues his quest to save Earth from humanity by thinning the ranks of the human populace. But after being thwarted over and over again, Ra's seeks to distract Batman by stealing the bodies of his dead parents while he enacts his nefarious plot. And to insure that Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash and the rest of the JLA do not interfere with his plans, he individually defeats each of the heroes using strategies developed by Batman himself! And when the League learn of his betrayal, they look to expel the Dark Knight from their ranks.