That’s a lot of trimming.
Sometimes things dont work out as well as they might have on the page.
Sometimes they didnt on the page either!
So he was confident we could do it again.
That was probably our biggest editorial issue in trying to get the cut down to a reasonable length.
This moment set into motion everything until the end of the film really.
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Until that point the movie was always tracking many solo paths, some intersecting, some not.
Finally in this scene, the paths fork into one road.
In the script there are more subplots than you see in the movie right now.
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Also in terms of building this beginning we had to move things around.
Plus, his presence has so much energy, a twisted comic energy that boosted the film.
So there was Clark Kent, Superman, Bruce Wayne and Batman.
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It was a lot to juggle.
So the plot lines of a couple characters had to go.
These people are currently in the movie but we dont track them, and its okay.
