Last week it was reported that DC was spending $25 million on reshoots for the upcoming superhero team-up Justice League. However, the most curious news wasn't the cost, it was that Superman actor Henry Cavill will be reshooting his scenes with a full mustache, which will then have to be digitally removed in post-production. Now more details of the process involved have emerged.
"If we were to remove a beard [or mustache], we would have to digitally re-build the actor's face behind the hair mass," he said. "We would need to build a 3D model of the face and then shade the surface of the skin to look realistic. We would then need to track the 3D model to the movement of his head and potentially re-animate his mouth. The amount of lip animation would depend on how much of the original beard occluded his lips. We would need to paint out the parts of the beard that extend beyond his shaven face."
Fleet went on to explain that it can take up to six weeks to edit a moustache out of a one=minute clip. It is unknown how much footage Cavill needs to reshoot, but it goes without saying that many fans will be watching his top lip carefully when the film arrives in November.
Cavill himself also commented on the issue this week, with a morbid post on Instagram. He stated: "There has been no discussion over whether to shave or not to shave for the JL reshoots, simply a relentless campaign to put an end to the seemingly inexorable conquest of this despotic 'stache. It is not a question of IF I should shave--it is a question of how can we possibly be victorious against such a beast without bringing our own doom raining down upon us."
>recognizing a thread that hasn't been posted in over two weeks Indeed, do you have autism? Or just no life?
Angel Sanchez
No, it was Henry
Christopher Morales
autist
Colton Foster
How mustacraftian
Connor Morgan
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF DC
Blake Cruz
Go back to r*ddit newfag
Christian Smith
>his cinematic universe consists of manlets and jews
Daniel Lee
Couldn't they just delay MI:6 shoots? It's not slated until July 2018 anyway, they're shooting it awfully early.
Logan Reyes
Don't know the whole story but it's possible he started growing it for another movie after he thought JL had wrapped, but then got called in for reshoots. Like when Kate Mara cut her hair for another movie after Fant4stic and had to wear a really terrible wig when she got called in for reshoots.
Oh, and putting make up over facial hair looks hoakey and it's really obvious in close ups.
Lucas Rivera
why doesn't he just shave it?
Zachary Hill
How long did it take him to grow that?
Nolan Russell
>mfw he fought to have in his mission impossible contract that he had to have a moustache just to fuck with DC
Hudson Gray
Mad because BTFO.
Aiden Robinson
Cavill grows hair very slowly so it makes sense there's a huge dilemma here.
John Gutierrez
Because he needs it for another movie he's working on.
Blake Phillips
Right? Why can't they just put 2-3 weeks between shootings and grow a new one?
Jacob Evans
I know, right? Let's just put a multi-million dollar production on hold for a few weeks so one of the actors can shave and go reshoot a bunch of scenes for a movie made by a different studio that was supposed to be done shooting months ago.
Like, what's the big deal?
Henry Davis
>Right? >I know, right? >Like, Sup Forums does not talk like this...
Carter Robinson
We do when we're being sarcastic.
Nobody seriously expects Paramount to put MI:6 on hold for 2-3 weeks so that Cavill can shave his face and go do reshoots for Warner Bros.
Time is money in the movie business, if WB fucked up and needs to reshoot Paramount isn't going to put a very expensive movie on hold to accommodate them, they can CGI their way out of it from their own wallet.
Colton Thomas
Oh.
Jason Turner
Do you know what a mustache is?
Samuel Diaz
An unformed beard.
It's like squares and rectangles. If you have a beard you have a mustache.
Brody Jones
Checkmate, English.
Nathan Evans
Why would he not just shave? It takes me like a month or two tops to get my facial hair back to where I like it. Could he seriously not bare that kind of commitment?
Jace Reed
That's not a beard, that's a disgrace to humanity.
You're being sarcastic but it's less retarded of an idea than manually editing it out in every scene.
Caleb Gonzalez
Why don't they just show Superman coming back from the dead with some facial hair? Shoot those scenes and be done with it.
Andrew Scott
Wait, Superman hasn't been in any of the trailers right?
Are they just flat out revealing he'll be back? Not giving a shit about the story at all?
Ryder Young
what a god
Lucas Nguyen
...Seriously? He's been in the posters for a very long time.
It was never supposed to be a spoiler that Superman came back from the dead. Even the end of BvS you started to see the coffin shaking.
Aaron Barnes
im out of the loop
whats this about mustaches?
why not just do the shoot with him not having facial hair?
Thomas Rogers
No, Paramount is in no way obligated to spend money putting MI:6 on hold to accommodate WB reshooting JL scenes. That is not their cost to carry, it's WB's.
Jayden Torres
Ah okay. I figured they would save that for a separate movie and have this one focus batman getting the team together.
By the way, this is gonna be a clusterfuck.
Blake Gray
Because most of JL is already shot.
Cameron Gomez
Probably not, Whedon came in to fix it so it could easily be another Avengers.
Blake Lopez
Because Cavill is already in the middle of shooting another movie for another studio where he has facial hair.
Lincoln Gomez
The plot of the movie is about Batman and Wonder Woman trying to recruit new potential heroes because the planet is going to be invaded, but the new team failing because they're not ready to face their fears and handle that kind of threat, until Superman shows up to instill them with hope that the day can be won.
The trailers make this obvious.
Easton Torres
Fuck. Just shave it. Why do they make it sound like its a world problem.
Eli Robinson
why does this nigga look like steven adams
Austin Johnson
Better this than Trump to be painfully honest.
Robert Wilson
It maybe implied it, but it wasn't obvious. Alfred seemed pretty casual about welcoming someone back from the dead.
Easton Roberts
See He'd literally fuck up filming for another expensive blockbuster that's he's already working on.
Leo Scott
their own fucking fault for wanting reshoots. should've done a better job in the first place
Ian Cooper
Nah, this is gonna be a cluster of X3 proportions. Snyder and Whedon don't mesh stylistically or tonally at all.
Colton Reyes
TBF WB didn't know Snyder's daughter was going to off herself.
Luis Green
Snyder didn't even write most of it, Whedon did.
Anthony Watson
Terrio wrote most of it.
Justin Evans
Earn those rupees bro, that curry ain't free!
Isaac Butler
didn't they have to edit his bulge out of in all the movies? no homo
Nathan Morales
Who the fuck is this actress?
Justin Martin
>WAIT I DONT FUCKING GET IT, DO THEY WANT SUPERMAN TO HAVE A MUSTACHE OR NOT?
OP didn't quote it but Cavill need the facial hair for Mission Impossible 6. So it's Tom Cruise's fault.
Gavin Williams
let's not kid ourselves. they were going to bring in Whedon anyway.
Lucas Moore
why do black people like Zack Snyder?
Jack Peterson
Let's not kid ourselves. Every movie would benefit from bringing in Whedon.
Anthony Russell
He was suppose to be done with JL. Don't blame Cavil for WB's fuck up.
Zachary Davis
They want him without mustache but since the reshoots were very brief as confirmed by the actors, they didn't even bother to make him shave and will just erase it with CGI in post production. Disney smear machine is rolling with it because Wonder Woman was tough on them
Jackson Walker
Jewlywood will turn this shit into its marketing scheme to stand out.
It's fucking pathetic.
Jace Torres
Yes, but Alfred's also one of the most stoic motherfuckers to ever walk the planet. Stiff upper lip and all that.
Mason Lee
Superman with a Hitler Mustache is a must !! I need to see it in my lifetime XD
