At WonderCon, Singh was told producer Mark Canton response to the news was that he yelled out a window in excitement, to which the literally fast-speaking director mused, "He probably would have because he yelled at me many times before that saying, 'Why? Why this guy?'"
As Singh explains it, when he cast Cavill as the demi-god Theseus, he needed someone who could change the nature of their performance along with a script still in evolution. Says the director, "I told him, 'Right now Theseus is the son of a king, but by the time the script is done he may be a peasant, which he now is. I realized he could handle anything I threw at him. In the words of the famous Miss Piggy, 'Some piggies just have it, and some don't.' I saw him and I thought, 'That piggy has it.' The studio didn't agree and wished I'd picked a better known actor. But when he was announced as Superman, they said, 'Ah, you picked the right piggy.'"