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The Superman movie that has one of the most expensive deleted scenes in history
The new Man of Steel movie is getting closer and closer, although one of its predecessors was left without a cool scene about Clark Kent’s origins.
In an era of blockbusters where it seems that budgets are going higher and higher for a box office return that is increasingly difficult to justify, it seems that no one remembers the no less crazy budgets of yesteryear, with dizzying figures even decades ago. And this has a lot to do with certain scenes that were particularly expensive to shoot, either for one reason or another, such as that minute of ‘Vanilla Sky’ in which Tom Cruise ran through the streets of Times Squares completely empty in exchange for a million dollars. However, another film that would arrive a few years later has the dubious honor of having one of the most expensive deleted scenes in history: ‘Superman Returns’ from 2006.
Superman Returns’ and its millionaire deleted scene
Before Henry Cavill’s Superman we had Brandon Routh’s Superman, an actor who could only enjoy one movie in theaters as the famous Kryptonian superhero due to the failure of an overpriced production that ultimately failed at the box office. Directed by Bryan Singer (‘X-Men’, ‘X-Men 2’ or ‘Valkyrie’), the film was conceived as a spiritual sequel to Christopher Reeve’s Superman, although it never had a clear personality halfway between classic and modern.
In any case, it grossed under $400 million for a rather large budget of $270 million. $10 million of that budget was spent on a scene that was shot and finished but never made it into the final cut of the film. Singer intended this sequence to open the film, but it was never seen. It would have featured Clark Kent exploring his origins.
This is a sequence in which Superman discovers his true Kryptonian past. However, the scene turned out to be too solemn and dark for the film’s general tone, which is more colorful and lighthearted. Consequently, it became one of the most expensive deleted scenes in cinema history.
‘Superman Returns’ can be viewed through Max.
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