Zack Snyder Talks About Using Special FX In Superman

superman with no visual effects,sounds like smallville.

Yeah Nolan wanted the best possible CGI director out there to do it. And i think Snyder is bullseye choice.

Actually I thought that Singer did a pretty good job with the reality thing. That plane rescue was quite good, especially with the wing breaking off and the passengers being thrown around.

But I know Snyder will do an even better job with it. And of course we will probably see his signature button falling to the ground.

@marvel72 the boat rescue one was pretty good too. It's like "everything is lost' but, then, you see those red boots standing on the window and you know it will be alright...

i think hes talking about if superman tries to pick a car up by anything other than the frame then it would fall apart as he was lifting it.... theyre going to put his strength and powers in perspective to reality,,,, how the effectrs of what he does would have on his environment.

@naterator- you hit it on the nail bud.

All I can say is that it's not going to look right if Superman can't pick up a car.

what are you guys smoking? he's saying EXACTLY what you want! he didn't say nothing will be a special effect, he said EVERYTHING IN THE MOVIE will be a special effect! his point is that no matter what clark does it's going to have to look different from what it would would look like if one of us did it. picking up a pen is no harder to him than picking up a car, but it uses different muscles and different mechanics.

as for the physics comment, he's talking about what naterator means and maybe more... he means that we need to see him get his weight under the plane when he lifts it, just like we cant lift anything much more than 20 pounds without getting it over our center of gravity. even if it's easy for him to lift that car, we need to see his triceps flex when he does it, not see it levitate as soon as he touches it. and it prolly means that when he lifts that car, it's weight will be transferred to one square foot instead of distributed over four tires, which means he's going to sink into the asphalt a little.

So excited for this!

another example might be if he were going to use his heat vision as CK...then he would need to lower his glasses for that,,,,,otherwise he might need to get a new pair of glasses. :)

@AlternateNo4 -- Thank you, and beautifully put. Yeah, anyone who thinks he was talking about NOT having special effects doesn't know how to listen to a person's mouth talking words for consumption by the ears and processing by the brain. I am not at all thrilled with Snyder for this job, although I do think he will absolutely get the effects and the physics "right", and that there will be plenty of that. I don't expect a lot of heart, though. REGARDING THE SPIT CURL: I could take it or leave it, but if it's there it should be as a result of his hair getting "mussed" from all that whooshing around the sky, not because he slapped on some pomade real quick while changing in the broom closet or whatever. Superman should look like Clark cutting loose, not buttoning down. He gets to be himself when he's Supes. REGARDING THE CLASSIC ACTION COMICS CAR LIFT: In the original image, Superman is SMASHING that car, not gently lowering it to the ground in a pussy-fart scenario where he is getting duped by someone. It's an adventure image, not a "getting the cat out of the tree" moment. Don't get me wrong, I like those little boy scout beats with Supes -- in fact, they are crucial and definitive to the character -- but I think the movies so far have largely played that front and center and gone really broad, to the extent that he always seems like a little bit of a sucker. I do think he should always be a symbol of selflessness and decency, but I think representing that with too much naivete undermines that goodness he is representing; belittles it. LASTLY, REGARDING THE PLANE SEQUENCE FROM RETURNS: The shot where he lowered the plane to the ground was HORRIBLE. Now, I don't care what the nose of a plane is really made of, because that's pretty much irrelevant to a movie like this, but to make that seem to work physically, it needed Supes to lower the nose to the ground, and then fly, faster than a speeding bullet , as they say, to the tail end and lower it down. That's always bothered me about that movie, among so many other things.

Excellent stuff.

Everything we're hearing so far is all good.

this [frick]er looks tired. he's probably tired of talking about supes already.

@AlternateNo4 - He wasn't clear about all that you just said. Snyder only said that it had to be based on reality. That means to me that certain things he just can't pick up with out it breaking under it's own weight. In other words He just won't be able to lift a car or a truck with out damaging it and the ass end of that ship he carried more than likely would have collapsed under it's own weight plus the water that was in it.

Why does Snyder always come across in interviews like some burnt out stoner?

I know i'm not the only one noticing this.
Darkmatter - 3/31/2011, 9:44 AM


I think you are the only one, BUT everybody else is correct with their Bryan Singer/Plane scene comments. That's exactly what Snyder is talking about here. The cause and real effect of everything Superman does.

it seems like some of the first posters dont understand exactly what zack is saying. he didnt say he wont use cg effects, he said he needs to. he didnt say superman wont pick up cars, he said when he does pick them up that it will look really good. I think this will be the best superman film ever made. its really not hard to do but at the same time zack will make it better than most could hope to.