James Gunn's Superman has become one of those movies that gets endlessly talked about online, as it soars to domestic box office highs. But this is a movie that Gunn worked on and tweaked right up until releasing it in the theaters. What I loved about it was its unabashed heart and soul. You really feel for these characters, and you can laugh and cry with them as things get better or get tough. To walk that line, you have to kill your darlings, and you have to really nail the tone. One wrong scene and you can throw the whole thing off. Well, Gunn almost made this mistake on Superman, but realized it just in time to yank it out. What was it, and what made it too dark for this movie? Let's dive in. The Superman Scene That Went Too Far On a recent Happy Sad Confused podcast, Gunn pulled back the curtain and revealed a moment he left on the cutting room floor that would have taken this scene to a whole new level of disturbing.But first, let's set the scene in the movie.Lex has this bonkers prison in an alternate dimension. The production design alone is chilling—he keeps anyone who has ever wronged him locked up in glass cubes. Anthony Carrigan's Metamorpho is there to create Kryptonite and weaken Superman, in exchange for Luthor releasing his infant son from mortal danger.We're already treading water here when it comes to the tone of this movie.But this is...
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