ZACK SNYDER's JUSTICE LEAGUE: Henry Cavill May Have To Film New Superman Scenes (Minus The 'Tache)

ZACK SNYDER's JUSTICE LEAGUE: Henry Cavill May Have To Film New Superman Scenes (Minus The 'Tache)

Despite reports that won't be taking place for Zack Snyder's Justice League, a new rumor claims that Henry Cavill might need to suit up as Superman to film some additional scenes - minus his moustache!

By JoshWilding - Jun 01, 2020 04:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Justice League
Source: Heroic Hollywood

Due to the fact that Henry Cavill was shooting Mission: Impossible - Fallout when he was required to return for Justice League's reshoots, he was still sporting the moustache he'd grown to play August Walker. Joss Whedon and Warner Bros. attempted to remove his facial hair with VFX, but the result was comical, and his creepy CGI jawline has become a point of ridicule since the superhero ensemble's release in 2017. 

While Zack Snyder obviously shot Superman's original scenes in the movie (which were largely replaced with Whedon's reshoots), a new report from Heroic Hollywood claims that, "there is a rumor that Zack Snyder will have to shoot Henry Cavill’s face against a green screen at the very least for special effects purposes, because the current reference material of Cavill from the theatrical cut of Justice League is of him with the mustache."

"A special effects insider tells Heroic Hollywood, how that would work is that the visual effects house hired for the Snyder Cut will reshoot Cavill’s face and map that onto the existing footage."

"If Cavill were to go into the studio, and assuming that he’s in the relative same shape, it might be easier to reshoot his whole body and performance, paint out the old footage and replace it with the new and current special-effects footage," the site explains. "A lot also depends on the complexity of the shots Snyder wants to use and how many they have to do."

So, these won't be traditional "reshoots" featuring Cavill, but this could explain why it was recently revealed that the budget for Zack Snyder's Justice League will be well beyond the originally reported $30 million. Whether this will lead to additional scenes that weren't going to be in Snyder's theatrical cut is hard to say, but it's certainly intriguing to think about. 

We don't know when this FX work will take place, but the movie/TV series is set for a 2021 debut. 

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Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 6/1/2020, 4:25 AM

>The ZSCut is not getting any reshoots.
>Henry Cavill is in talks to play Superman again.
>Well yes, but actually no...not yet at least, but WB sure want to go there with him.
>Henry Cavill may have to film new scenes in the ZSCut


Rao give me strength...
tmp3
tmp3 - 6/1/2020, 4:26 AM
This rumor sounds so [frick]ing BS. They got all of Cavill’s coverage in 2016, the reshoots weren’t on the cards until WB didn’t like what they were seeing
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/1/2020, 5:44 AM
@tmp3 - This (and mustache-gate) just highlights to me how incompetent this franchise has been handled all along that Snyder apparently never bothered to do a high res scan of Cavill's face while making three movies of him.



I would have thought after Paul Walker every big movie production would do this, for insurance purposes if nothing else. It's such an amazingly versatile tool to have as a backup.
Origame
Origame - 6/1/2020, 5:48 AM
@tmp3 - ikr? You can tell all the scenes whedon did just because of superman because, suddenly, superman had a deformed mouth.
tmp3
tmp3 - 6/1/2020, 5:58 AM
@Spock0Clock - They do have high res scans of Cavill's face though; you can see it very clearly in Man of Steel since a lot of the flying is a pure CG model. I think this is just Umberto pulling shit out of his ass again.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/1/2020, 6:03 AM
@tmp3 - I don't know how they end up doing that butchery on his mustache, then. A whole face-replace based on reference dots would have looked a hundred times better.
Moriakum
Moriakum - 6/1/2020, 4:29 AM
They sure need a lot of money, time and filming for a cut that has always existed...

Highflyer
Highflyer - 6/1/2020, 5:34 AM
@Moriakum - Curious, is extra filming confirmed?
Moriakum
Moriakum - 6/1/2020, 5:36 AM
@Highflyer - I don´t know but it seems Znyder asked for extra filming.
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