Director Sidney Lumet as soon as had a beautiful piece of recommendation for aspiring administrators: make sure that everyone seems to be making the identical film. Briefly, be sure that no single division is cordoned off from the remainder of manufacturing, crafting in non-public, making one thing that will not hyperlink into every part else. Gunn famous that his upcoming movie “Superman: Legacy” was targeted on a unified aesthetic. He wished the hair stylists, the makers of prosthetics, and the manufacturing designers all to be on the identical web page. This was one thing he additionally did along with his films “The Suicide Squad” and “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3,” each of them big, costly films. Gunn stated:
“[O]ne factor I seen early on after I began directing greater films is I might watch different massive films – I do not wish to identify them, however – often I would see one other massive film the place it is like, nicely, you may inform that the costume designer wasn’t on the identical web page with the set designer, wasn’t on the identical web page with the hair designer, and people, they’re all individually nice items of labor, however collectively they do not match […] [T]this is an aesthetic that you simply wish to, you already know, put in opposition to every part.”
And when the purpose is aesthetic unity, maybe it is okay to depart casting a bit unfastened. If Superman is all concerning the look of Metropolis, the lower of the costume, the flip of the hair, then it is much less essential what actor goes in there. Certainly, ask your self if you happen to’d watch a Superman film the place he would not put on his costume. Superman, Gunn appears to acknowledge, is extra costume than man.
Certainly, Gunn went on to say explicitly that actors aren’t a precedence for him.