With James Gunn’s version of Superman (reviewed HERE) earning over $220m over its opening weekend its success seems assured but one of the films many highlights is the superhero’s dog and here James Gunn talks Krypto and what prompted the director to include him?
Gunn explained, ‘ He’s an often frivolous character from DC Comics who I’ve always liked. That beginning of the movie was the beginning of the story for me, that was me finding out how Superman got to that place and what happened. Having Krypto come to his rescue at the beginning of the movie was adding the whole spin to what this Superman movie was. It wasn’t the Donner Superman. It wasn’t Zack [Snyder]’s Superman. It is a different Superman, where there’s a superdog that flies around and also can shoot beams out of his eyes, where there are other superheroes. It’s a world where metahumans have existed for years and Superman just happens to be the greatest of them, although we’re meeting him at a time before he’s quite reached that stature’.
With regard to Krypto’s origins he said, ‘Krypto was inspired by my dog, Ozu. He’s named after the great Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu. We got him from a rescue with all these dogs, and he was the one dog that was terrified of me. He was very scrawny and skinny, but he had one ear sticking up and it was like a beacon to me. So, for some reason, I was attracted to this silly dog, and I brought him home. And he didn’t know people. He was about a year old, he had never really been touched or interacted with human beings, so he didn’t have much use for me whatsoever. And he loved my other dog, instantly followed her around everywhere really bothering her. He also proceeded to destroy my house. He tore up all our furniture. He destroyed every shoe he could get his paws on. He ate my laptop. For real. Destroyed my laptop. And every time anything vaguely resembling an animal came on screen, he would attack the television screen and attack the furniture around the television screen. He was the worst dog you’ve ever seen in your life. He was biting my feet constantly and so I had to wear shoes around the house when I normally like to be barefoot in my house. He would bite my feet when I was on the phone, so I couldn’t scream at him and also I couldn’t scream in pain. Instead I would sit on top of my kitchen counter and cross my legs and try to get over in a corner, and then all of a sudden, he would jump up onto the counter and start biting my feet anyway. And for some reason, I thought, “Oh, what if this awful, terrible, maniac dog had superpowers? We’d be in real trouble.” And then I thought, maybe Krypto is terrible, and that was the start of the movie, adding this unexpected element, this terrible dog. So, Krypto is Ozu. We literally brought Ozu in and scanned him, because Ozu could never be a stand in. We had a wonderful dog by the name of Jolene, who is every kind of respectable, a smart dog, not an idiot dog like my dog Ozu. So, we scanned Ozu, enlarged him a bit and turned him white, and that’s Krypto in the movie.
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