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CBR NEWS: You didn’t work on “Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.” Did you get a chance to speak with its director, Sam Liu, about it when you were prepping for “Apocalypse”?
Lauren Montgomery: Sam and I are friends, so we talk pretty often. But I think on this one, it was such a different story, just in general, that there wasn’t a whole lot to really take from the first one. It wasn’t a direct sequel in that sense, like the story was continuing. It was kind of a phasing out of the first story and then starting in on a completely different story. And they have a pretty different feeling to because this one is much more family and relationship-oriented and much less testosterone-driven [laughs].
So yeah, it’s really only a sequel as much as the comic was a sequel. You can really just pick up this book and read it and you don’t have to know anything that happened before. You maybe have to know a little bit about Superman and Batman and as long as you didn’t grow up in a jail cell, with no knowledge of the outside world, then you should probably be able to follow along with it.
It doesn’t stay 100 percent. There are a few very, very tiny things that we tweaked just to make it play better as a movie than as a comic. But it is very, very close to the comic in a majority of ways. We really only made whatever tiny, minor changes we had to make just to adapt it to a movie format better. And I think whatever changes we made were really for the better of the movie. But we didn’t go out just to make changes just for the hell of it. It’s a pretty close translation from comic to movie.
For folks who didn’t read the original comic, what’s the story about?
It’s essentially the re-introduction of Supergirl. It’s her new origin story after they killed her off the last time [laughs]. They decided, “Hey, let’s bring her back.” So it’s really the origin story of Supergirl and her arrival on Earth and really the dynamic that she brings to the Superman/Batman relationship. And what kind of drama her arrival actually brings because there’s Superman - who is so excited to have someone from Krypton, who he’s related to, because he’s never been able to have anybody that he can really relate to, anywhere on Earth - and then there’s Batman, who is much less trusting and kind of looking at her as less of an ally and more of a possible liability and a possible enemy because here is a whole other Superman. But unlike Superman, you’re not sure of her morality. You don’t know if she’s going to be good or she’s going to be bad. So that’s really what this story centers around is the arrival of another super-powered being and what it could mean for the people of Earth.
How big of influence was Michael Turner’s art from the original run?
Whenever we do one of these movies very closely based on a comic, if it’s possible, we do try to use the original artwork as inspiration. We try to design it pretty closely to what the comic was. Some adaptations always have to be made because you can’t get as detailed in animation as you can in a comic because ultimately somebody has to draw that thing over and over and the more detail you throw on it the slower it’s going to get made. But in “Public Enemies,” they adapted the Ed McGuiness style and in this one, we adapted Mike Turner’s style and we were constantly looking at the comic for any kind of inspiration. We not only used character drawing style but we also used backgrounds from the comic and color schemes from the comic and we really just tried to make it look like the comic came to life in our movie.
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And just a reminded the movie hit the stores today.
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