A closer look
Paramount Pictures spent five million dollars digitally removing Henry Cavill's mustache for the Justice League reshoots because the actor was contractually obligated to keep his facial hair for a Mission Impossible film. The result was a terrifying, uncanny valley upper lip that made Superman look like he was recovering from a poorly executed botox injection while trying to save the world from an apocalyptic alien threat. Instead of just letting the Man of Steel rock a killer stache, studio executives decided to burn millions of dollars on CGI that ultimately looked worse than a snapchat filter from 2015. It is a beautiful testament to the chaos of modern blockbuster filmmaking, where scheduling conflicts over a patch of facial hair can lead to one of the most widely mocked visual effects disasters of the twenty-first century
