was filmed in such secrecy, according to a new interview with one of the film’s illustrators and concept designers, that even those associated with the film didn’t all see the script by the time the film was headed to theaters.This led, as one might imagine, to a sense of trepidation about the film that Peter Rubin had just worked for months on when he began to hear sharply critical reviews of the film coming out before he had a chance to see it. The review, as many have, focused primarily on the last twenty minutes of the film and the controversial battle between Superman and General Zod.”I made the mistake of reading a very negative review the night before I went, and it just about crushed me,” Rubin admitted. “I was fearing that moment. But then when it came, it made so much sense in context. Look, it’s happened in the comic books, more than once, it’s been a rule of most super hero movies since 1989′s Batman that the hero kills the murderous villain at the end, and people forget that it happened in Superman II back in 1980. Supes and Lois commit double homicide, and then laugh about it. Zod, Non and Ursa are mortals at that point in the story, and there’s no way they survive those falls, or the hypothermia that would follow even if they did.”
