Superman Returns Deleted Scene Now Online

[Set Harth]

I enjoyed SR, although my perspective on the movie has always been that Richard White was the hero and Superman was a supporting character who got way too much screen time.

The sequel was originally going to be called Whiteman.

 

[davejames]

Everything that needed to be said about Superman Returns has been said so i won't repeat it (personal opinion.. not as bad as many say but could have been way better).

However i'd liked to be at the conversation where Singer has to explain to the producer and the studio CEO that he's shot a 10 million $ sequence and decided not to use it

Only at the highest levels can you do such things and get away with it.. a normal person would have been fired, quartered and then fed to the dogs for wasting 10 million.

Well on paper I can see how it might have been cool and interesting to see Superman exploring the ruins of Krypton in a crystal ship. But once they saw how slow and moody the final sequence was, they probably realized it just wouldn't work.

Especially when the movie as a WHOLE was already pretty slow and moody. lol

 

[Shazam!]

I imagine they just figured that Superman crash landing on Earth in a ball of fire was a much more interesting and dramatic introduction to their main character as opposed to some glum looking dude in black staring around for a bit.

 

[FPAlpha]

Everything that needed to be said about Superman Returns has been said so i won't repeat it (personal opinion.. not as bad as many say but could have been way better).

However i'd liked to be at the conversation where Singer has to explain to the producer and the studio CEO that he's shot a 10 million $ sequence and decided not to use it

Only at the highest levels can you do such things and get away with it.. a normal person would have been fired, quartered and then fed to the dogs for wasting 10 million.

Well on paper I can see how it might have been cool and interesting to see Superman exploring the ruins of Krypton in a crystal ship. But once they saw how slow and moody the final sequence was, they probably realized it just wouldn't work.

Especially when the movie as a WHOLE was already pretty slow and moody. lol

I would understand that.. paper and the real thing are sometimes quite different but this was a fully produced sequence, Special Effects and all that (though it seems the music is missing or was it supposed to be this silent) and at no point during did Singer stop it? There's usually concept art of the scene, storyboards and in case of heavy SF scenes a pre-visual with rudimentary effects and graphics so i guess there would have been enough time to stop this before spending this kind of money.. but what do i know? I haven'd directed multi-million dollar movies

Just shows the utter faith the studio hat in Singer who was at the top of his game almost singlehandedly resurrecting the superhero movie genre and being a fan favorite. A "lesser" director sure would have gotten his ass kicked

 

[James Bond]

Why wasnt everything bathed in red light, you know from the giant red sun that Krypton orbits.

The red sun collapsed in on itself then struck Krypton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W-XtWob9wo

Would the planet itself have survived the supernova? It looks pretty intact int he deleted clip.

I thought this guy had a better suggestion of how to open the film and explain Superman's absence than the return to Krypton that Singer gave us:

• ....start the movie Bond style with a pre-title mini-story. We pick up the plot shortly after the end of Superman II. Lex is in jail, the Krypton criminals vanquished.
  
  
  
  Superman gets called for help in some emergency and rushes to the scene. Only it turns out to be a trap put in place by Lex Luthor before he was sent to jail.
  
  
  
  Superman is laid low by kryptonite. A prerecorded message from Lex plays. He explains that if Superman is there then he must be in jail and his contingency plan has gone into effect. If he's going down, so is Supes.
  
  
  
  As Superman lays weak and powerless, Lex explains that he isn't going to kill Superman. Too easy. He wants Superman to suffer in prison like HE is. The trap essentially traps Superman in a high tech coffin which runs on kryptonite and keeps Superman constantly dosed in just enough kryptonite radiation to keep him crippled. The coffin will end up burrowing itself under Metropolis where it won't be found. Or it'll be in a statue honoring Superman. Something like that. Close enough so that if Superman's super senses are working he can hear/see what is going on but he will be forever trapped alive until the kryptonite power supply gives out in, oh, 100 years.
  
  
  
  The only other way out would be if an EMP pulse would short out the system. But if that happened that would mean Metropolis had been nuked. So still sad day for Superman. So Superman is trapped in the prototypical villain trap. Only in this case, it works.
  
  
  
  The opening ends with Superman defeated and locked away as Lex laughs at him. Credits roll.
  
  
  
  Then we see "Five Years Later". Then the film can start picking up largely as written. Superman is gone for five years. Lex is out of jail. If you've seen the movie you know that early on Lex conducts an experiment that creates a huge EMP pulse. You play that scene and end with Lex going, "Was that an EMP pulse? Ohhhh no…"

Win.