There were rumours that Michael Shannon was set to return in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and the Comic-Con trailer confirmed that when we saw General Zod’s corpse. While it was initially believed that would be the extent of his role before Lex Luthor transforms the villain’s remains into Doomsday, it sounds like there’s going to be a pretty unique twist.
Talking about his time spent on set, the Man of Steel star revealed a humorous instance in which the prosthetics he’ll be wearing in the movie left him trapped in a portable toilet.
“I was in my costume, and I couldn’t use my fingers because in the sequel I have flippers instead of hands. So I had these wax flippers on my fingers, and I couldn’t open the door, and I could hear Zack [Snyder, the director] being like, ‘Where’s Shannon? Where the f**k is he?’ and the whole crew was standing around. I was like, knocking on the door with my flippers, ‘Let me out of here!’” Wait a second, did he say that Zod now has flippers?!
Perhaps instead of Doomsday, we’ll just be getting a horribly mutated Zod of some sort?
It’s hard to say at this point (those “flippers” could be CGI appendages in order for something a little more monstrous to be put in their later on, especially if this is a motion capture role), but Shannon’s Batman v Superman role is clearly going to be much different than expected. Superman breaking Zod’s neck was a controversial moment among fans, so perhaps Zack Snyder has found a way to undo that by bringing him back from the dead!
