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Michael Shannon Tells How He Got The General Zod Job In ‘Man Of Steel’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 12, 2011 @ 3:51am PDTTags: General Zod, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Movies, Superman, Video, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

Speaking to an audience at RiverRun, Michael Shannon describes the trippy ordeal that went into winning the villain job General Zod in Warner Bros’ Superman film Man of Steel. Deadline was first to reveal that Shannon was wanted for bad guy duty, but clearly a lot goes into figuring not only whether Shannon could play the role originated by Terence Stamp (a no-brainer if you’ve seen HBO’s Boardwalk Empire), but also the way that director and studio figure out the alchemy in matching up actors. Here, he describes the effort to see how he melded with Henry Cavill in the Zack Snyder-directed film.

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TOLDJA! Michael Shannon Gets Villain Role In Superman Movie

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday April 10, 2011 @ 1:43pm PDTTags: General Zod, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Superman, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

Deadline revealed last month that Michael Shannon was in Zack Snyder’s sights for the villain role in the Superman film Man of Steel. Warner Bros just announced he got the job. Here’s the official announcement:

BURBANK, CA, April 10,

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