We’re less than a month away from James Gunn’sSupermanmovie, and the trailers have all been pretty great so far. We’re getting a Superman with a much lighter disposition, getting to see his Clark Kent side, a whole host of other heroes and villains, and a petty Lex Luthor as well.
However, there will always be those who aren’t impressed by it, and merely hate it from the trailers. Zack Snyder fans will always miss Henry Cavill and what could have been ifDCdidn’t reshuffle things. One of the biggest things people ridiculed about Gunn’s Superman was that one shot from a TV commercial in January. You know the one.
The Shot With Superman’s Weird Face Is Not In The Movie
While it was a very quick shot, it was a close up of Supes’s face as he flew across a frozen land. I admit that David Corenswet’s face did look a little strange in that shot, especially his eyes. While many people pointed it out, some used that tiny detail, along with Superman blinking when a can is thrown at him, as a sign that Gunn didn’t understand the character at all.
It seems that the TV commercial was a mixup, and Gunn didn’t pay attention to it too much. In a conversation withEntertainment Weekly, the director revealed that it won’t even feature in the final cut of the movie.
“It was a TV commercial and it wasn’t a finished visual effects shot,” said Gunn. “So the part of him flying, it was a photograph of his face and him flying. It was a photograph of a drone flying in front of an actual background. So all the pieces were real, but it was incorporated in kind of a funky way.”
He further explained, “I didn’t love the shot, so it’s not even the shot that’s in the movie. Sometimes I’m pretty strict about when I’m going through a trailer and looking at each of the shots, but sometimes the commercials, I forget to look at this closely. So that one kind of got by me.”
Gunn is also known to shoot extra footage for promotional content like trailers, so there’s a chance that the whole scene might not feature at all when the movie releases on July 11.
