Michael Shannon Needed the Multiverse Explained to Him Before Return as Zod in ‘The Flash’
thewrap.comLooper, Shannon was surprised to receive a phone call from director Andy Muschietti asking him to reprise Zod in “The Flash.” “I was a little confused.” Shannon said, “As memory serves me, I think I died in ‘Man of Steel.’ Are they sure they got the right guy?
But then they explained to me the whole multiverse phenomenon, which … I was a little behind the times on that. I can’t say that I’m a huge consumer of this genre of films — not that I have anything against them.
If I’m going to watch a movie, the odds are it’s not going to be one of those, but I sure love making them.”Shannon added: “I loved making “Man of Steel,” and I love working with [director] Zack [Snyder], and I felt like it was actually, in a way, a fairly important film.
It was nice to revisit the character. I wasn’t there for a terribly long time. I was in and out in a couple of weeks, so it was a nice way to spend a bit of my summer in England.
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