2013 Movie News Archives

April 23, 2013: Michael Shannon on Zod's CG Costume

General Zod During filming for "Man of Steel", Michael Shannon was photographed wearing a motion-capture unitard (with the tracking dots all over it), leading to speculation that his General Zod would wear a computer generated costume of some kind. In an interview with Collider.com Michael Shannon confirms that he never actually had to wear the bulky metallic costume we now associate with Zod in "Man of Steel".

    "I never wore the armor. That is a CG outfit, I think I can say that without getting assassinated, yes. Honestly, the armor would be very heavy - like in Iron Man, Downey Jr. doesn't ever wear armor - Oh, but there is a guy who wears it. I know the guy, the guy who was the Iron Man double, who had to wear that freakin suit was on Man of Steel and he said it was a freakin nightmare, it's so freakin heavy. They wanted me to have freedom of movement and if I would have actually been wearing a giant metal suit I would have been walking around like this, you know? So every time you see me in that metal suit just close your eyes and imagine me in an Arlequino outfit; green, red, blue, with the little tight around the midsection. Yeah, we all looked like bunch of dorks."

    While he obviously can't say much about Man of Steel, Shannon had high praise for David S. Goyer's script for the film:

    "I thought the whole script was just very sophisticated for the genre that it is. It was as sophisticated as scripts for other movies I've done that have been considered more highfalutin, or whatever. It has a lot of deep themes in it, and the way they deal with Kal-El's journey is really fascinating."

Source: Collider.com.

Thanks to Gerard Espiritu for the lead on this story.



2013 Movie News

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