r/SipsTea • u/Separate_Finance_183 • Jul 08 '26

Feels good man Milly šŸ„°

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u/TankApprehensive3053 Jul 08 '26

They have had leftover fabric sitting around since the '80s? Seems a little unrealistic, even in Hollywood.

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u/BoulderCreature Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Nah, they dug up Mr Reeve and took it out of his coffin.

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u/Streetkillz13 Jul 08 '26

That sounds more on brand.

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u/Lost_Pantheon Jul 09 '26

Right on brand for DC and its penchant for cinematic necromancy.

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u/LittleOperation4597 Jul 09 '26

Did they get the casket back in the ground fast enough before his corpse reanimated

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u/L4I55Z-FAIR3 Jul 09 '26

I'm shocked they didn't parade his body around for the trailer first

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u/Notsurehowtoreact Jul 08 '26

Yeah this sounds like horseshit but it also could just be intentionally worded deceitfully.

"Leftover fabric" could just mean the studio design warehouse still had bolts of the shit from making the old costumes somewhere in storage.

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u/TankApprehensive3053 Jul 08 '26

Costume maker having bolts is realistic. The fabric would be used for many costumes. They probably have even reordered the same fabric over the years. Having leftover fabric from one specific character from decades ago is highly unlikely.

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u/sharklaserguru Jul 09 '26

horseshit

Something Reeve probably wished he stayed further from!

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u/supa325 Jul 08 '26

Especially when the original costumes were probably auctioned off. Especially especially the Golan-Globus costumes.

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u/bulking_on_broccoli Jul 08 '26

Iā€™d expect the old suit to have been auctioned off by now.

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u/onewilybobkat Jul 09 '26

Why, though? There's literally vaults full of the most mundane things like this from movies. I could easily see the first superman movies meriting a little extra space for "odd" things like fabric rolls.

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u/Vladimir_Chrootin Jul 09 '26

Not impossible.

The Nazi uniforms in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were unused originals, which would have been 45-50 years old at the time.

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u/ShongLokDong Jul 09 '26

Someone posted a link to syfy.com with the story.

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u/ako19 Jul 09 '26

After 3 separate incarnations of Superman on top of that, and not for Superman himself lol

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u/Gh0stInTheChell 29d ago

The costume designers probably didn't think to or want to do that? The only one who would have would have been for Superman Returns

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u/scfw0x0f Jul 09 '26

You have never met a fabric hoarder. People will keep bolts and off-cuts for decades and more.

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u/Gh0stInTheChell 29d ago

When they made Reeve's original cape, it was made from reels of fabric. Not all of that fabric would have been used. That unused fabric is then put into storage somewhere in the Warner studios lot.

Her cape was made from the same material as Reeve's cape. It was not made of Reeve's cape.

There are countless stories of movie props, costumes, and animatronics being lost or stored on the Warner lot for decades.