Singer Says Superman Was a Real Eyeful

EXCLUSIVE!!

[Posted by Borys Kit]

Talk about eye-poppin.’
One of the most talked about sequences from Superman Returns will surely be the scene in which Superman stops a bank robbery in progress. (Spoiler Alert!) The action climaxes with a thief pulling out a gun and shooting Superman...right in the eye! Sure, hindsight is 20-20, but that high stakes moment almost didn’t make it into the movie.
Bryan Singer had to fight hard, super-hero hard, to get that scene into his film. Sources say the studio balked because the scene was expensive and because they found it a little too graphic. Execs also worried that it could raise red flags with the MPAA. After all, Superman gets shot...right in the eye!
At the Hollywood premiere Wednesday night, Singer admitted that the scene wasn’t originally budgeted and getting it in required an impassioned argument: “Look, in one scene we can see him be faster than a speeding bullet and we can truly see how impervious he is. And how every molecule in his body is more than steel. I made a plea in the middle of production and graciously Warner Bros. kicked in some extra cash.”
And just how much extra cash?
“Uh, about $2.3 million. It’s all about that shot.”
Right in the eye!
Singer also said part of the genesis of the scene — which includes the bank robber firing tracer bullets from a giant machine gun on the cops and Superman — came from writer Mike Dougherty’s father.
“Mike’s dad sent us a film of a military demonstration of these amazing tracers and I was like, ‘Wow, we need to see that.’”

Check out this trailer for a tease of the sequence: Link

Comments

[donald]

the scene is terrible....i wish it wasnt in there.
lame
2.3 million down the drain.

[Elsa]

That's a great scene!! I'm looking forward to actually see it in the movie in 2 months. It's probably the best scene I've ever seen. Thanks to Warner and Bryan that they decided to take the scene :)

[Jake]

Lame? Have you seen the film Donald. I did, and the bank robbery is a sweet scene as is the entire movie. The best incarnation of Superman ever to be shown as a television show, movie etc.

Truly an awesome movie!

2.3 million WELL spent.

[West]

Not a bad scene, but it would've had more of an impact with *me* if Marvel hadn't done it, first, in the pages of SUPREME POWER or SQUADRON SUPREME or HYPERION or whichever doggone title it was.

-West

[Kiki]

I love this scene...the effects are incredible... I'm glad that they put it in there, so people could see how SUPER Superman really is. I give the movie a 10000000000 it rocked. I cant wait for the next one.