Meh. Cavill has always seemed too grim for the role of Superman. His default facial expression is “Something smells really bad, and I think it’s you.”
I suspect a more cheerful Supes is up next.
Beyond that, he wasn’t happy with being tied up in Eastern Europe for the entirety of the filming and felt it was keeping him from other opportunities. Superman or not, it just seemed like he was burnt out on being a part of this series.
Maybe he should have just shaved his mustache and not cost the producers $50m or whatever it was.
That wasn’t his call, but Tom Cruise and the team shooting Mission: Impossible.
Why would shaving his mustache cost the producers that much money? In other words, what was the story there? (I don’t remember this.)
Cavill wouldn’t shave his mustache for one of his stints as Superman (he needed it for another film he was also in) and the studio decided to instead incompetently CGI it out. It was $3m though, not $50m+ in costs.
In specific, as that article notes, WB needed Cavill to come back for extensive reshoots on Justice League, but by that point, he had already grown a mustache for his role in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and the other studio refused to let him shave off the mustache.
And the Mission Impossible studio was right in that it should be a lot easier to digitally remove hair and replace it with bare skin than it is to take bare skin and digitally add a mustache that doesn’t look like a novelty gag on the big screen.
Maybe, but you’d also think that it’d be easier to give someone a realistic fake mustache than to do anything digitally at all. I’ve definitely been surprised by what facial hair is fake when watching behind the scenes stuff.
If they had already filmed scenes with the real mustache, it would presumably be much harder to make a fake mustache that matched his real mustache.
And here’s the instagram video Cavill made when he shaved off the mustache.
With Robert Pattinson playing Batman maybe they get another Twilight actor to play Superman–Taylor Lautner!!
“I’m off to rethcue Loith Lane.”
The goal is to skew the character younger. At 30, Lautner is older than Cavill was in Man of Steel. Though going younger than that throws out the current origin story trope that Clark Kent, like Bruce Wayne, wandered the planet incognito for years before becoming a superhero at 29.
Fair enough.
Though with the way Hollywood works— a 30 year old actor playing someone 10 years younger would NOT be a RARE occurrence.
But, did he first reveal his true nature to a group of fishermen?
Sure. Who says Superman can’t be short.