It’s not just Gaiman talking about Superman in this issue of Wired - Bryan Singer’s got a decent interview with them as well. I’m not sure I’d agree with his assertation that the CG cape looks realistic at all, but it’s an interesting look behind the scenes of a $200,000,000-plus movie. The bit about having to recreate Marlon Brando completely with a computer is actually kind of creepy/neat.

What about the quandary in the first Superman movie when he flies around and around Earth, spinning the planet backward and turning back time? It’s always been strange to me that all of a sudden he can fly so much faster.

Yeah, well, that’s a moment when the death of Lois Lane stimulates him to do the unthinkable, to fly faster than he’s supposed to. That had a romantic logic, but in my opinion, it broke several rules. After all, the idea that flying around the Earth would cause time to go backward, when really if you stop the planet that would just basically cause everyone on Earth to fly off. We don’t have anything quite like that in this film.

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