Michael Shannon Clarifies Zod Flipper Comments and Discusses Krypton Ghosts

A couple of weeks ago, Michael Shannon made an interesting comment regarding Zod having flippers in Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It sounded like crazy talk to me, and apparently that's exactly what it was. He was apparently joking when he said:

“I was in my costume, and I couldn’t use my fingers because in the sequel I have flippers instead of hands. So I had these wax flippers on my fingers, and I couldn’t open the door, and I could hear Zack [Snyder, the director] being like, 'Where’s Shannon? Where the fuck is he?' and the whole crew was standing around. I was like, knocking on the door with my flippers, 'Let me out of here!'”

When asked about the comment in an interview with The Daily Beast, Shannon clarified his statement:

“Somebody was asking me about this in New York and I made up some ridiculous bulls**t answer about how my character Zod has flippers, and this went viral on the Internet or something and people have been asking me about that. That is so obviously a complete bulls**t story, right? But people took it seriously.”

Of course, this statement could just be damage control for him revealing that he really does have flippers in the movie, which would, again, make no sense. The actor then went on to say that he also provided voiceover work on the film for his ghost version of Zod.

Remember how Superman activates Jor-El’s preserved A.I. consciousness in Man of Steel? Well apparently we will see that with Zod in the upcoming movie. He told the site:

“The thing about the whole Krypton universe, apparently, is that even when you destroy them, there are ghosts. The first [film], Jor-El is there even though he’s been dead for lord knows how long... I went over and did some voice-over stuff because it’s like that ghost thing. But I don’t know if I’m supposed to say that. I get very nervous."

I guess that means Zod downloaded a copy of himself into a codex before Superman snapped his neck. That's what Jor-El had to do before sending it to his son on Earth. Unless Zod actually comes back as a ghost to haunt Clark Kent! If that's the case, I really hope they bring in the Ghost Adventures to investigate because that would be hilarious. 

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