Board 8 > Extensive Justice League reshoots force Cavill's beard to be digitally removed

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http://variety.com/2017/film/news/justice-league-reshoots-1202502433/

Warner Bros. and DC are spending big money to ensure that “Justice League” builds on the creative success of “Wonder Woman” instead of serving up a “Suicide Squad”-style disappointment.

The studio is spending approximately $25 million on extensive reshoots that have dragged on for roughly two months in London and Los Angeles, according to multiple insiders. Like “The Avengers,” “Justice League” centers on a group of superheroes who band together to save the world. The ensemble nature of the comic book movie, and the fact that its cast includes several of the most in-demand actors working in Hollywood today, is creating scheduling headaches that has prolonged the shooting.

It’s standard for big Hollywood movies to schedule a few weeks of pick-up work, but the cost and time allotted to the work on “Justice League” is raising some eyebrows. Reshoots, or additional photography to use the preferred studio nomenclature, traditionally cost between $6 million to $10 million, and rarely have to juggle so many competing schedules. They typically last a week or two.

Though stars like Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot, who play Batman and Wonder Woman, aren’t working on any other projects at the moment, enabling them to be on call for the filming, other cast members such as Ezra Miller and Henry Cavill have been scrambling to accommodate the additional photography.

Miller is reprising his “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” role in the film’s sequel, which started filming earlier this summer. Sources indicate that since that is also a Warner Bros. property, scheduling has been easier. The studio has gone out of its way to make him available, but his growing role in the world of wizarding series has made it difficult for him to suit up as the Flash on the same days that other co-stars are available.

Cavill’s issues are even more thorny. “Justice League’s” Man of Steel had expected to be able to finish shooting the sixth “Mission: Impossible” film before needing to don Superman’s spandex again. That has not been the case, however, as the new scenes that are being shot have required him to jump back and forth from each production. Because of this, a mustache he grew for his character in the “Mission Impossible” sequel will have to be digitally removed in post-production. Paramount, which is distributing the “Mission: Impossible” sequel, would not allow Cavill to shave the facial hair while production was taking place.

Then there is the question of crediting. Joss Whedon has now spent months overseeing the project, but he will not recieve a co-directing credit, according to an insider. Whedon stepped in to handle the reshoots and finish the film this spring after director Zack Snyder publicly excused himself from the project, following his daughter’s suicide in March. Whedon won’t just be rewarded with a fat paycheck. He may get a producing credit or a screenplay credit. There’s some precedent. Tony Gilroy, who stepped in for director Gareth Edwards to oversee reshoots for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” earned a screenwriting credit.

Sources say “Justice League” reshoots have been used to punch up the dialogue. Whedon, the director of “The Avengers,” is well respected for his ability to create memorably wry exchanges between his characters. The set pieces Snyder shot are said to be usable, but Whedon has been working on “connective tissue” that was needed to link sequences.

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Sounds good to me.
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So is it a beard or a mustache
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Man, I am really worried about these Whedon reshoots, especially the ones involving Wonder Woman.
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I actually might pay to see just how bad this movie turns out to be
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Terrible. They should've digitally ADDED the beard to all the other scenes instead.
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Can we add a beard to the Tiny Fence???

"Superman's dead, we swear! Hey Cavill, get back in here, we need you beardless."
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All these comic movies are getting hard to keep track of. I bet DC announced a bunch more despite having a terrible record so far. Then there are the ones being done by different studios. I feel like I need to summon comic expert scarlet or something

@scarletspeed7

Boy it's hilarious how this blatantly spoils two major franchises without any regard.

I mean, I guess it's an open secret that Superman and Credence come back but it's so weird how nonchalant everybody is about discussing it.
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I thought Superman was dead
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swordz9 posted...

All these comic movies are getting hard to keep track of. I bet DC announced a bunch more despite having a terrible record so far. Then there are the ones being done by different studios. I feel like I need to summon comic expert scarlet or something

@scarletspeed7

There were several annoucements. DC's slate has about 8 films right now.
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Also I hope their effects team are better at removing facial hair than they are at fences.
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Watch them fuck it up and we'll get Tiny Moustache to go with Tiny Fence.

I'm ok with that.
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Several?! Oh damn I gotta look these up. I bet the comic movie chart is going to look insane with the Marvel, DC, Fox and whatever other studios are doing them movies.

Justice League Dark - dare I hope to see Matt Ryan as Constantine again? Probably not happening :(

Batgirl - Well ok I guess. Not surprised here.

Wonder Woman 2 - not surprising since the first was a hit

Suicide Squad 2 - oh dear god why. More like Suicide Duo and 7~ or more obligatory extras.

Green Lantern Corps - Can't be worse than GL.

I think that's all the new ones? Cyborg,
Aquaman and Flash were already getting movies. Batman was also definitely happening. Hope I didn't miss any.

This is severely out of date but I remember looking at this graph and going "God damn"


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It's going to be impossible for me to watch this movie without being on the lookout for tiny fences and airbrushed mustaches.
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swordz9 posted...

Justice League Dark - dare I hope to see Matt Ryan as Constantine again? Probably not happening :(

Actually sounds like they want this according to rumors.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

swordz9 posted...

Justice League Dark - dare I hope to see Matt Ryan as Constantine again? Probably not happening :(

Actually sounds like they want this according to rumors.

Oh man oh man this needs to happen

God I wish the Alfred scene we've seen in the commercial was about Green Lantern or Supergirl and Cavill only shows up in flashbacks or something.
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Think I found a list of all of them not counting animated ones.

Thor: Ragnarok
Justice League
Black Panther
Avengers: Infinity War
The New Mutants ?
Deadpool 2
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Venom
X-Men: Dark Phoenix ?
Aquaman
Untitled Fox Marvel movie 1
Captain Marvel
Shazam
Untitled Avengers movie
Untitled Fox Marvel movie 2
Spider-Man Homecoming sequel
Untitled DC/WB movie 1
Untitled Fox Marvel movie 3
Untitled DC movie
Untitled Fox Marvel movie 4
Cyborg
Untitled Marvel Studios movie 1
Untitled DC movie 2
Untitled Fox Marvel movie 5
Untitled Marvel Studios movie 2
Untitled DC movie (spot says presumed GL Corps)
Untitled Fox Marvel movie 6
Untitled Marvel Studios movie 3
Untitled Fox Marvel movie 7
Justice League 2
The Batman
Man of Steel 2
Gotham City Sirens
Deadshot
Nightwing
Suicide Squad 2
Batgirl
The Flash
Gambit
Fantastic Four 2 ?? Lol first tanked so unlikely
Wonder Woman 2
Batgirl
Justice League Dark

This was going in release order too. Sure are a lot of unnamed ones so far >__>

Deadshot ranks highly enough to get a movie?
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Anagram posted...

Deadshot ranks highly enough to get a movie?

No, Will Smith does.
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swordz9 posted...

Fantastic Four 2 ?? Lol first tanked so unlikely

gotta keep dem rights
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Had to add in a couple at the end I forgot from earlier. That is an insane amount of movies. I think we are set until like 2030

scarletspeed7 posted...

Anagram posted...

Deadshot ranks highly enough to get a movie?

No, Will Smith does.

Oh yeah.

FFDragon posted...

swordz9 posted...

Fantastic Four 2 ?? Lol first tanked so unlikely

gotta keep dem rights

Reboot it again obviously.
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Anagram posted...

God I wish the Alfred scene we've seen in the commercial was about Green Lantern or Supergirl and Cavill only shows up in flashbacks or something.

Maybe it's Shazam.
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I am most hyped for Deadpool 2. Not sure how interested I am in the X-Men stuff. I mean the two real stars are supposedly done with X-Men movies for good now so...

I wish they would keep one of the movie titles simply "Untitled Fox Marvel Movie 7" for shits and giggles. It's not like it would make much of a difference.
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Yeah, I added numbers to the untitled ones just to see how high they reached. Maybe one of those Fox Marvel movies will be a Dr. Doom solo movie

I'm hyped for a fair bit of the MCU output. I might try the DCEU eventually. I'm definitely not hyped for anything X-Men.
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Jeff Zero posted...

I'm hyped for a fair bit of the MCU output. I might try the DCEU eventually. I'm definitely not hyped for anything X-Men.

Not even Deadpool 2?

Also wow I didn't realize Spidey 2 was coming so soon. Between his own movies and his appearances in Avengers/Civil War movies it looks like we're getting him in at least one movie a year for the next while. Very cool.
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Nah, Deadpool didn't do much for me. I can respect that it's a good and important film, but it isn't my cup of tea.
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With the exception of Apocalypse the X-Men movies may be the best of the lot at least where the current decade is concerned.

I feel they are the only ones which have some real variety for several reasons.
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Jeff Zero posted...

Nah, Deadpool didn't do much for me. I can respect that it's a good and important film, but it isn't my cup of tea.

What didn't you like?
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The tone. The efforts at deconstruction of a genre I don't think I like enough to want to see deconstructed. The cheap look of the production. Many of the things the lead character said which got the audience keeling over while I just sat there enjoying mediocre steak.

The steak was well-done, for the record, so it's obvious I just have bad taste. It's OK.
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well-done steak is terrible
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In fairness, I'm not big on steak no matter the temperature. This one just had a ton of Cajun seasoning on it, which is, in and of itself, an affront to many so-called steaksperts.
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Deadpool had a low budget. Like if what I'm seeing is accurate Deadpool's budget was literally below HALF the budget used on the first awful Hulk movie where Hulk fought CGI Hulk Dogs >__>

It tried too hard. Everything about it was trying to hard. Part of the point was for it to try too hard. It tried too hard at doing that.
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Him forgetting his big bag of guns was poking fun at their low budget I believe.
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I'm aware that Deadpool apparently had a low budget but it didn't come across to me whatsoever in the movie.
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I think the closest modern superhero movie (as in nothing before like Spider-Man 1/Hulk/X-Men) is X-Men at 70M. Deadpool is a little over half the budget literally Catwoman had

A lotbof that was because it was R.

But something tells me that the highest grossing R Rated movie of all time is gonna get a little more cash thrown its way for the sequel.
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I'm aware of its low budget, too, yeah. And it definitely showed IMO. I can appreciate that it lampshaded it -- the post credits scene was good, for example -- but it still affected my enjoyment.
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Probably the saddest thing to think about with all these movies is that Stan Lee has maybe like 5-10 years left at best since he's already in his mid 90s :(. One of these will be the last cameo he has

Logan also had a relatively low budget at $97 million that would actually be below the original X-Men when you account for inflation.

Incidentally Logan is the best superhero movie in ages.
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Yeah, Logan and Deadpool were both fantastic. I wish Jackman would stick around for a little longer. At least cameo in Deadpool 2 even if it's as himself. The fans would love it

Deadool and Logan were both some of the best super hero movies in years, for sure.

I feel like having a low budget can help keep people on track in some ways. It's a bit like how retro game design shines really brightly - they had relatively little to work with, so every single decision mattered that much more.
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