>During a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, director James Gunn revealed that the scene in which Lex Luthor executes a civilian named Malik Ali (Dinesh Thyagarajan) in cold blood was going to play out differently until he decided that it was simply too much for a PG-13 movie.

>"Lex shoots the guy in the head, that was always done in this extreme wide shot so it’s not too graphic. But the guy fell on the ground, and blood is pouring out onto the platform, and Lex looks down and sees the blood is about to get on his shoes. Ghurkos goes, ‘What? No!’ And Nic looks at him, and his delivery is great, because he looks at him straight and says, ‘No?’ And then Ghurkos, sheepishly, sadly, trudges forward, lays down on his back and starts soaking up the blood. Then Nic looks over at Superman and says, ‘I’ll see you tomorrow.’ But once I saw the movie, I was like, 'This is too dark,’” said Gunn.

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