Superman is getting ready for his latest Hollywood treatment, but not all his up close shots will be sticking around. Director James Gunn opened up on a certain shot that became a talking point after a TV spot, and why it was cut from the final edit of the film. 

Superman has already made quite the splash in terms of online presence, even a month away from its release. One shot in particular from a TV spot featuring Superman flying, however, started floating around social media, with many voicing their own distaste for it. 

A wide-angled, head-on shot of him flying, Collider notes that the snippet garnered some backlash. Collider themselves even described the shot as “gimmicky,” explaining how it feels out of place when stacked against what else has been shown of the film. 

Gunn himself broke down just how they managed to capture the shot to begin with. “It was a photograph of a drone flying in front of an actual background. So all the pieces were real, but it was incorporated in kind of a funky way,” he told Entertainment Weekly. 

Gunn went further by noting that he usually scrutinizes what ends up in a trailer, but admitted that this slipped past him because of it being for a TV spot rather than a full-fledged trailer. 

Superman debuts in theaters on July 11th.