00:00First of all, there's no reason for the number three.
00:02You're not the first person to ask.
00:03It's simply something that Alan Moore has done before with repetitive use of the same number.
00:09So that's all it is.
00:11And three just happened to be the one that fit.
00:15And it really is there for the beginning of our journey in the DCU just to give us a grounding of the fact that we're entering a world where metahumans, what we call superheroes, also exist.
00:27And, you know, that Superman has been around for a little while.
00:30For anyone who doesn't know, for the three or four people in the entire world that don't know Superman came from Krypton as a baby, we get to tell them that.
00:39You know, and also as a signal to people, basically, yeah, we're not going to explain.
00:44This is the origin.
00:45So you don't have to worry about getting bored when you're expecting to see flashbacks in the first act.
00:51We've seen it.
00:52We've seen his origin enough.
00:53I quite liked the, like, DC Studios intro being so simple and unassuming, you know what I mean?
01:01Was that intentional?
01:02Was there a lot of thought that went into that?
01:03And was anyone pushing for this big animated Marvel-esque kind of thing?
01:06Peter Safran is too cheap to push for a big animated Marvel-esque thing.
01:11And I remember we talked to one of our marketing guys at the beginning and we're saying we want a new intro and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:17And he said, okay, well, it's going to cost about $2 million and this and that.
01:21I'm like, we're not going to spend $2 million on that.
01:24I got a CGI dog I want to make.
01:27But I do like the simplicity and elegance of it.
01:31I did find sometimes with other things I've had to deal with, both at DC and Marvel, they were both so long that it almost became too much a part of the movie itself as opposed to just being a stamp on it.
01:46And sometimes it worked really well, but sometimes it seemed to be too unwieldy.
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