Was There a Surprise Cameo From Another Superman in Man of Steel?

[Benjamin Grimm]

From NerdBastards.com:

 

"Leave to the internet to look for something that probably isn’t there, but the rumor du jour suggests that some cunning visual effects people slipped in a couple of seconds of footage in Man of Steel where new Superman Henry Cavill morphs into 80s Superman Christopher Reeve. The effect is subtle, that is to say I can’t see it, but the below GIF does make it look as though there was some kind of tinkering. Or perhaps it’s just the lighting effect of the scene in question.

 

Judge for yourself:

 

 

 

Could you see the difference? As Uproxx noted, perhaps the reason some people see a bit of Reeve in Cavill in this image is because the two kind of look alike and are playing the same character. Reeve played Superman in four films between 1978 and 86, but was paralyzed in a horse ridding accident in 1995. He died due to complications from those injuries in 2004, but not before appearing twice in the Superman-as-a-teen TV series Smallville.

 

No official work from director Zack Snyder or any of the hundreds of visual effects artists who worked on the movie, but for my part I say look for this to become a part of the Hollywood urban legends set along with the Three Men and a Baby ghost and the Munchkin who hanged himself. Or not. What do you Bastards think?"

 

http://nerdbastards.com/2013/06/27/was-there-a-surprise-cameo-from-another-superman-in-man-of-steel/

 

[DiceX]

It's like Déjà vu all over again.

 

 

[WEBHEAD]

[Speedy-D]

I noticed that in the theater.

[DeliBebek]

All I see is Tyler Durden in frame 36. :shrug:

[Maccai3]

I noticed that in the theater.

 

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[Comicopolis]

There is a website called NerdBastards.com

[Davenport]

[Speedy-D]

[Dr. Balls]

[Davenport]

[Comixroc]

I thought I saw that too..... Right before he destroys the machine in the Indian Ocean....

[comix4fun]

That frame is absolutely Reeve. 100% without a doubt. The shape of the nose and the their proportionate shape to the eyes are Reeve.

 

 

Edit....at least it seems their intention was to give the appearance of Reeve, looking at the frame by frame, seeing the lighting effects used.

[Comicopolis]

That frame is absolutely Reeve. 100% without a doubt. The shape of the nose and the their proportionate shape to the eyes are Reeve.

 

Which frame would you say it is?

[jools&jim]

 

There's a frame-by-frame breakdown of that shot here:

 

 

I can kinda-sorta see the resemblance happening--a little--in the middle 2 frames of the 2nd row. When it's moving, the illusion (?) is a bit stronger...

[Comicopolis]

[comix4fun]

That frame is absolutely Reeve. 100% without a doubt. The shape of the nose and the their proportionate shape to the eyes are Reeve.

 

Which frame would you say it is?

 

 

It's hard to name the frame with it looping like that, but there's one where the shape of the nose and eyes don't match with the rest.

 

And maybe it's the way the tilt of his head changes from one frame to the next that makes it look that way. Was that in the movie, or did someone mess with it afterwards?

[DiceX]

I don't see it.

 

 

 

[comix4fun]

Last column, third row from the bottom.

 

There's some effect in there that washes out Cavill's cheekbone definition, narrows his now and doesn't make his eyes seem so deep set...which makes him look like Reeve. Maybe it's lighting or saturation, but viewing it full speed that wide nose, deep set eyes and chiseled cheekbones become altered for a split second and look like Reeve.

[DiceX]

Last column, third row from the bottom.

 

There's some effect in there that washes out Cavill's cheekbone definition, narrows his now and doesn't make his eyes seem so deep set...which makes him look like Reeve. Maybe it's lighting or saturation, but viewing it full speed that wide nose, deep set eyes and chiseled cheekbones become altered for a split second and look like Reeve.

 

The one that looks like the same guy in the rest of the frames?