Krypton Cut From Superman

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Source: Sci-Fi Wire

Bryan Singer, director of the upcoming Superman Returns, told SCI FI Wire that he had to cut an early sequence in which Clark Kent/Superman (Brandon Routh) flies in a crystal ship to the fragments of his home world, Krypton. "I shot a whole [scene] with the [return-to-Krypton] sequence," Singer said in an interview on June 9 in Los Angeles. But Singer said he cut the sequence, which was to take place at the beginning of the movie, because he felt it didn't really fit the movie, which in its rough form was already clocking in at two hours and 45 minutes. The final cut runs less than two and a half hours.

Singer said that he hopes the return-to-Krypton sequence will eventually see the light of day in some form, though it probably won't appear on any future DVD. "At some point you'll see it, I'm sure sometime," he said. But cutting the sequence was "just one of those things that you bravely do" to improve the movie, Singer said.

The Krypton sequence isn't the only one cut: Singer also excised a scene between Eva Marie Saint's Martha Kent and James Karen's Ben Hubbard, a farmer neighbor with whom the widowed Martha had been spending some time. Singer said he'll likely put that deleted scene on a DVD.

Superman Returns, which picks up the Man of Steel's story when he returns to Earth after a mysterious five-year absence, opens June 28. Click here to read the entire story.