To recreate Marlon Brando's
Jor-El in
Superman Returns, Bryan Singer states that he uses "a
combination of unused footage, footage, and re-created
footage. You won't necessarily see Marlon Brando walking around or
reanimated in a conventional sense, but you will hear dialogue that
you have heard before combined with takes that you haven't
heard before plus a
rendering that is completely new."
Singer adds that the Brando sequences are being created with
"very raw material" culled from a variety of sources and locales. "A
lot of the stuff was all over the place. A lot of the stuff
was in vaults in New York and in Los Angeles. I got ahold of
Brando's London
session. I had very interesting out-takes, which are something to
see. So there's a lot of material. It's great to hear
Dick Donner's voice on the ADR sessions, on the raw
material. There are a few really funny moments—we called them 'Brando
bloopers'—where you hear Dick and Tom
Mankiewicz in the background. It's cool."
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