Anyone who has even a passing interest in the failed ’90s Superman reboot titled Superman Lives knows about the scene, added at the insistence of producer Jon Peter, in which Superman finds himself squaring off against a giant, robotic spider.Kevin Smith, who wrote the original script for Superman Lives, has recounted his struggles to cut this scene, and Warner’s insistence that it remain, during his stand-up comedy DVD, An Evening With Kevin Smith. It was, by Smith’s accounting, a kind of demented demand by an executive producer who ultimately ended up using a similar concept in the Warner flop Wild Wild West.An image or two of this infamous sequence has existed for a long time on the Internet, from the portfolio of storyboard artist Tim Burgard, but a couple more surfaced earlier today at Comic Book Movie, where they note that Burgard was working on the film before Tim Burton was ever attached to the film.
