• • Michael Shannon stated he turned down a job in “Star Wars” as he isn’t a fan of massive blockbusters.
  • He informed Empire: “The world does not want extra senseless leisure. We’re inundated with it.”
  • He stated he was “fairly shocked” to study he would reprise his DC Universe function in “The Flash.”

Michael Shannon, who’s starring in “The Flash,” his third film within the DC Universe, stated he turned down a job in “Star Wars” as a result of he does not discover massive blockbusters and franchises “attention-grabbing,” nor does he “wish to perpetuate them.”

In a brand new interview for Empire journal’s print version, the 48-year-old actor was requested about turning down the function that may’ve taken him to a galaxy far, far-off — and stated he is “a bit cautious about these large motion pictures” as they “take lots of time and I do not discover them very stimulating to work on.”

“I do not ever wish to get caught in a franchise. I do not discover them attention-grabbing and I do not wish to perpetuate them,” he stated. “If I am making one thing, I would like there to be some type of function to it — I do not wish to make senseless leisure.” 

“The world does not want extra senseless leisure. We’re inundated with it,” he added.

As for why he thinks enjoying supervillain Normal Zod within the DC Prolonged Universe’s “The Flash” — a movie which is each being marketed as a summer season blockbuster and a part of a franchise — is totally different, he stated that it was “truly a really related story.”

“It is principally a civilisation that destroyed their very own planet and suppose the answer is to go off and destroy one other,” he stated.

“While you hear that hypothetically, if we destroy the Earth, we’d go dwell on Mars — it is the identical factor,” he continued. “I did not take a look at Zod as a villain. I simply noticed him as a man whose job is to guard his individuals.”

Nevertheless, he admitted he did not anticipate to “see myself enjoying Zod once more” in DC’s newest launch given his character’s destiny in “Man of Metal,” which noticed him satisfyingly eradicated by Superman (Henry Cavill) on the finish of the film. (Shannon additionally seems briefly in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice” too.)

“It is truly one of many causes I made ‘Man of Metal’ within the first place — it was a one-and-done,” he defined.

“So I used to be fairly shocked to listen to about this reprisal of the function. However I just like the story that ‘The Flash’ is telling and I wasn’t there for an extended period of time — I used to be simply there a few weeks — so it did not break my again to do it.”

“The Flash” takes place in another timeline the place the Justice League does not exist so Zod is attempting to take over Earth and remodel it into a brand new house for his almost extinct Kryptonian race.

Since there is no Superman to defeat him, it is as much as Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) and his group which consists of Supergirl (Sasha Calle) and Batman (Michael Keaton) to take Zod down this time round. Learn Insider Leisure Correspondent Kirsten Acuna’s evaluate of “The Flash” right here.