Superman Returns DVD Deleted Scenes

[The Kid]

hmmm not bad... but let's think bigger.

let's make kumar more than a silent dumbass henchman... maybe he had something to do with it you know?

 

[C. Lee]

I'm confused as to how they would use it in the sequel...where could that apply....even for flashback purposes...hell, it would've been an awesome flashback in SR!

It could be used in a sequel if........they bring Braniac into the story and shoot new scenes of him becoming aware of Supes in the area, and then have him follow Supes back to Earth.

 

[BatFitz]

hmm....perhaps.....screw it, though! I still would like to see that scene in SR

 

[Retroman]

Published: 7/6/2006

iF: There was a quote that popped up right after the SUPERMAN RETURNS junket about the IMAX film and how you would like to take a deleted scene and show it in IMAX, but it was unclear if you meant for a future re-release, or some time in the next few months. Can you clarify what you meant by that?

SINGER: There’s a sequence I shot in the movie where Superman returns to the shattered remains of his home world on Krypton. I shot the sequence, and I chose to complete the sequence. It’s a pretty expensive elaborate sequence, but it ultimately didn’t play in the scope of the movie. It wasn’t necessary and it didn’t feel right in the movie. I took it out and cut it. It was one of those kind of things where you have to hold your breath. Even though I worked very hard on this and even though it’s very elaborate and elegant and expensive, I’m going to have the guts to pull it out, because it’s going to compromise the rest of the picture. In looking at what IMAX has done with the 20 minutes of 3-D they’ve created for the IMAX release of SUPERMAN RETURNS, it’s just so impressive and interesting. And when I look at this sequence, I really feel, it doesn’t belong on a DVD, it doesn’t belong on [the theatrical version of the] movie, but if I were to make more of the movie 3-D later at some point, a year or something like that, I would have them to do the same process on the RK [Return to Krypton] sequence as I call it. That might be a nice thing to have for audiences down the road. You don’t think about those things until you see how people respond to the movie.


iF: How long was the sequence?

SINGER: About five or six minutes.


iF: So there might be a SUPERMAN RETURNS: IMAX SPECIAL EDITION?

SINGER: The only way I would consider it, if there were a worthwhile alteration or treatment of the movie. I’m not super fond of recutting a movie I’ve made. I feel the cuts of my movies are the director’s cut, but down the road, seeing how this IMAX conversion works, and seeing how the movie plays, It’s always possible that in the future, I’m holding this sequence back, it exists and I can use it there. This was just a thought I had. This is nothing conniving or for economics per se. The sequence exists, it was completed, it has not yet been scored. IMAX did one test on one of the space shots in 3-D and I could see what the landscape would look like in 3-D and it was cool. It was like the difference between POLAR EXPRESS and POLAR EXPRESS in 3-D. SUPERMAN RETURNS can be experienced both ways. It was shot to be a conventional film, but the 3-D process is really extraordinary, but in this particular RK sequence, there is so much going on dimensionally in space, it would be fun to see it in that way. Seeing it not in that way, it was something ultimately the film could do without.



iF: The running time of the movie is pretty long, I’m assuming there is a longer cut of the movie as well? Did you delete a lot of stuff?

SINGER: Not much longer. I got it to a two hour and forty-five minute cut and at that point, I needed to sit with an audience and watch it. So I put together a friends and family screening. It’s a very mellow group, about 100 people or so. Children of people at Warner Bros., friends of mine, they all sit in theater and we watch the film. People fill out little cards or they talk to you afterwards. You really know what’s working and what’s not working as you’re watching it. And I felt it, so I was able to pull over fifteen minutes out of the film.


iF: Which pieces were that?

SINGER: Things in the beginning. There was a little more on the Kent farm, there was this RK sequence. There were little things throughout the movie, bits and pieces I always wanted to address and they totaled about fifteen minutes. I reconceived the beginning a bit at the last minute. It began a little differently originally. It began with a proscenium stage and the original opening scenes played out differently. I felt there were too many openings to the movie, too much exposition. So once I had all this material, I stepped back from it. I said, "I think this needs to open more poetic." I need to have a bit of the past, I need to evoke Brando and the voice of Jor-El and a bit of Krypton’s history, but I need to do it in a more poetic way than I was doing as it was constructed. So I did a little reconceiving of the beginning and then removed that [Return to Krypton] sequence and some elements of the farm and it kind of worked itself out well. If your film is a little too front heavy, it gets into the cumulative effects of your cut and there are little objectivity games you play with yourself and part of it is sitting with and audience and watching it. You feel it in a room, you feel when it’s working and when it’s not. That’s where I made most of my cuts – in the beginning.

Source: http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1562

Can't seem to find the qoute where Singer says anything about using the Return to Krypton scene in the sequel.

 

[dark_b]

is singer really serious or is he joking?

 

[Retroman]

They reused an opening shot of the daily planet, the plate flying around the rok mountain in the desert minus superman (in STM it was the last shot before superman flies aroudn the mountain before seeing Lois's car swallowed up, and in S2, it is the shot foing around it before we see the two country bumpkin sherrifs car. There are a few other shots.

Thanks i didn't know that.

 

[Retroman]

is singer really serious or is he joking?

Good question.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Source: http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1562

Can't seem to find the qoute where Singer says anything about using the Return to Krypton scene in the sequel.

Good interview, some good insights there. About using the RTK in the sequel, it was said in this months Total Film, i read it in there, it was only a small article.

 

[dark_b]

Good question.

because i am serious here.


and i have to say that to agree with what singer said in this article you really would have to be a singer defeneder. he says that it was very expensive and that it is very good ,but on the other side he says that it doesnt belong in the theatrical cut,dvd . ionly in imax.
is this guy confused?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Singer also said in another interview that he didnt want the RTK scene to be the first time the audience saw Superman.

And why whould you have to be a Singer Defender to agree with him? Maybe it would just be 'SHOCK HORROR' someone's opinion?

 

[The Caped Knight]

UPDATE

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has released details of the Deleted Scenes (totalling 15 minutes) to be included as Bonus Material on the up-coming "Superman Returns" DVD.



Running Time Title
00:01:05:12 ("SUPERMAN RETURNS" - DVD - DELETED SCENES - "THE DATE")
00:01:45:02 ("FAMILY PHOTOS")
00:01:33:15 ("CRASH LANDING/X-RAY VISION!)
00:02:43:01 ("OLD NEWSPAPERS")
00:02:33:05 ("ARE YOU TWO DATING?")
00:01:33:16 ("MARTINIS AND WIGS")
00:00:59:08 ("I'M ALWAYS RIGHT")
00:00:41:04 ("JIMMY THE LUSH")
00:00:11:20 ("LANGUAGE BARRIER")
00:00:23:12 ("CRYSTAL FEET")
00:00:26:03 ("NEW KRYPTON")
00:01:08:07 (EASTER EGG - (AKA: "HOW WRONG CAN YOU BE?"))

 

[Masut]

UPDATE

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has released details of the Deleted Scenes (totalling 15 minutes) to be included as Bonus Material on the up-coming "Superman Returns" DVD.



Running Time Title
00:01:05:12 ("SUPERMAN RETURNS" - DVD - DELETED SCENES - "THE DATE")
00:01:45:02 ("FAMILY PHOTOS")
00:01:33:15 ("CRASH LANDING/X-RAY VISION!)
00:02:43:01 ("OLD NEWSPAPERS")
00:02:33:05 ("ARE YOU TWO DATING?")
00:01:33:16 ("MARTINIS AND WIGS")
00:00:59:08 ("I'M ALWAYS RIGHT")
00:00:41:04 ("JIMMY THE LUSH")
00:00:11:20 ("LANGUAGE BARRIER")
00:00:23:12 ("CRYSTAL FEET")
00:00:26:03 ("NEW KRYPTON")
00:01:08:07 (EASTER EGG - (AKA: "HOW WRONG CAN YOU BE?"))

Do any of you know if the 'broom closet' change to Superman scene (the revealing of the white t-shirt and having to run back to the planet) is one of these? Oh hell, I want an extended cut with everything in it, and it will probably come a few months after the original releases

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^They were already posted on the 1st page of this thread but thanks anyway

 

[SuperDaniel]

More proof Singer is a dumbass. WTF? "I felt it didn`t belong in the movie." WTf do u expect from a guy who cuts the RTK scene and leaves in the movie scenes of dogs licking dead people`s fingers, eating other dogs....?

 

[dark_b]

More proof Singer is a dumbass. WTF? "I felt it didn`t belong in the movie." WTf do u expect from a guy who cuts the RTK scene and leaves in the movie scenes of dogs licking dead people`s fingers, eating other dogs....?

i dont think that he is a dumbass. but he has obviously some problems. what problems i dont know. he was there when they wrotte the script. he was there when they build the sets and the suit. he was there when they filmed the scenes. he was there when they scored the music and made the effects. and then in the editing room he says that it doesnt belong in the movie? this just can not be the truth. dont tell me that a director like singer has to first finish a scene to see if it belongs in the movie. thats bull....it.

 

[Lighthouse]

I'm still incredibly surprised WB isn't fighting for this sequence to be released. I think Singer is making a huge mistake on this.

 

[lordofthenerds]

More proof Singer is a dumbass. WTF? "I felt it didn`t belong in the movie." WTf do u expect from a guy who cuts the RTK scene and leaves in the movie scenes of dogs licking dead people`s fingers, eating other dogs....?

Bryan Singer is certainly not a dumbass, but I still do agree with you that it was a very bad mistake on Singer's part. Its ridiculous how he cut a great $10mil scene for those odd, pointless dog ones. I really don't get it. Maybe he hates dogs.

 

[knightofistari]

There is no change in the world that Returns will be re-released on the big screen any time soon...anywhere.

Singer isn't George Lucas......generally most movies aren't rereleased on the big screen for several years if not a decade.

 

[BatFitz]

^ or at all!

I can't help wondering if there will be an even bigger easter egg besides that one listed........Return to Kypton? hopefully...

 

[Retroman]

because i am serious here.


and i have to say that to agree with what singer said in this article you really would have to be a singer defeneder. he says that it was very expensive and that it is very good ,but on the other side he says that it doesnt belong in the theatrical cut,dvd . ionly in imax.
is this guy confused?

No, i think he needs a reality check. Its great that he wants us to see the RTK scene on the big screen but seriously does he think WB is going to shell MORE cash to re-release to make it in 3D?

I know Corpse Bride is been re-released in IMAX this holiday. Maybe thats where he got the idea from?

 

[Retroman]

BTW When you read this article its pretty hard to belive that only 15 minutes was cut from the film. Its much more than that.

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/movies/movies.php?topic=sr-cutscenes

 

[Kalé]

I can´t believe that we are missing a very expensive scene with the ruins of Kandor and a big piece of movie explaining where he was gone. It must be in the second movie. If the villain of the second movie arrives from Krypton while Superman returns to the earth, Singer will not tell us. I really hope so. This summer I found a "Gladiator" 4 hours version. It would be really stupid waiting five years for a ten million dollars scene already done. How can all this never seen stuff be wasted? (Sorry for my english)

 

[Retroman]

^^I agree though Singer has said that he'd want to see it restored for an extended release of SR in IMAX theaters. And after seeing how fantasticly well the movie has performed in that format i think he may be granted his wish. Lets hope its sooner rather than later. Thanksgiving 2007 would be a good time to release extended edition in IMAX first ánd then a month later it could hit dvd.

It should never have been cut from the theatrical release in the first place. But what can you do?

 

[BooST eD]

whens the Directors Cut being released?

and i wonder if the footage will be hard covered meaning youll see the time on the camera... or will it be a ture scene that was filmed and edit properly?

 

[Retroman]

whens the Directors Cut being released?

No one knows that for sure. When or if it will be on dvd or IMAX or both.

and i wonder if the footage will be hard covered meaning youll see the time on the camera... or will it be a ture scene that was filmed and edit properly?

The scene is already finished with FX, score and is about 6/7 minutes long according to Singer.