James Gunn Explains Why He Insisted on THAT Squirrel Moment in Superman Despite Some People in Test Audiences and Even His Own Crew Not Liking It

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Superman saves a batch of radical successful the precocious released DC Universe kickstarter. But helium saves much than conscionable radical — overmuch to the annoyance of some.

Warning! Spoilers for Superman follow:

As the satellite is coming to an extremity astir him, Superman saves a lone squirrel. That’s right, helium takes the clip to prevention a squirrel from definite destruction, and we spot the heroic prevention beforehand and centre adjacent arsenic Metropolis and its citizens are nether threat.

This, it turns out, wasn’t the astir well-received infinitesimal successful the movie among trial audiences. In fact, according to writer and manager James Gunn, the squirrel infinitesimal was 1 of the astir "hotly debated" successful the full movie.

Speaking to Rolling Stone arsenic portion of a spoiler-filled Superman interview, Gunn revealed helium chopped the squirrel retired of Superman astatine 1 constituent successful effect to the feedback, but past enactment it backmost successful adjacent though radical connected his ain unit were telling him not to.

“... though it was astir apt the second- oregon third-most hotly debated infinitesimal successful the movie,” Gunn said of the squirrel.

“Because we showed it to trial audiences and immoderate radical did not similar the squirrel. They’re like, ‘Why the f*** is helium redeeming a squirrel? Why is helium taking clip out, redeeming a squirrel?’

“There was a chopped wherever I chopped it retired and I’m like, ‘I truly miss the squirrel. He’s gotta prevention the squirrel.’ In addition, determination were besides immoderate geographic problems with wherever helium ended up if I didn’t person him alert implicit with the squirrel. So I enactment the squirrel backmost successful contempt the protestations of immoderate of my radical connected my crew.”

So, the squirrel wasn’t conscionable saved by Superman, it was saved by James Gunn, too.

Check retired IGN’s Superman reappraisal to find retired what we deliberation of the film, and past caput implicit to our Superman Ending and Post-Credits Explained to find retired what it each means.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].

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