Earlier this past August, Oscar-nominee Michael Shannon had
fans scratching their heads after telling a story about getting stuck in a
bathroom on the set of Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and
being unable to open the door because he had "flippers instead of hands".
The story, however humorous, seemingly confirmed the longstanding rumor that
Zod's corpse would somehow be transformed into the DC Comics supervillain,
Doomsday.
Now however, while promoting 99 Homes, Shannon
came clean and revealed that he fabricated the whole story. "Somebody was
asking me about this in New York and I made up some ridiculous bullshit answer
about how my character Zod has flippers, and this went viral on the Internet or
something and people have been asking me about that," Shannon told The Daily Beast. "That is so obviously a complete
bullshit story, right? But people took it seriously." No wonder people
took it serious. With information on Batman v Superman being as scarce as it
is, everyone pays double attention whenever stories like these come out.
The full trailer for Snyder's upcoming follow-up to
Man of Steel had plenty of surprising moments, but no one was more surprised by
it then Shannon. "I wasn’t there," he said. "It’s a really
awkward situation—I’m in the trailer for a movie that I didn’t work on."
Shannon elaborated on his apparently ghostly
performance by comparing it to Russell Crowe's (Jor-El)
later appearance in Man of Steel as an A.I. guide of sorts. "The thing about the whole Krypton universe,
apparently, is that even when you destroy them, there are ghosts," Shannon
explained. "The first [film], Jor-El is there even though he’s been dead
for lord knows how long."
The actor then revealed, though he
probably shouldn't have, that he "went
over and did some voice-over stuff because it’s like that ghost thing," he
said of Jor-El's A.I. guide. "But I
don’t know if I’m supposed to say that. I get very nervous."
Whether he has flippers for hands, or
a disembodied voice, I'm eager to see how Zod ties into the universe building,
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which hits theaters on March 25, 2016.
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