Superman/Doomsday (2007) on Netflix
PG-1320071h 15mActionAdventureAnimation
LexCorp workers unearth the ship holding Doomsday, a genetically engineered super-soldier hostile to any life form. It kills the crew and heads for Metropolis, where Superman confronts it.
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Plot summary
Lois Lane and Superman are romantically involved, and she is unhappy that he will not reveal his secret identity to her. Digging for LexCorp, workers unearth the ship that holds Doomsday, a super-soldier created by genetic engineering and hostile to every living thing. The creature massacres the digging crew and rampages toward Metropolis, killing animals and people on sight. Soldiers who try to stop it in the city are cut down until Superman arrives.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Superman/Doomsday (2007)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kevin Smith cameoed in Superman: Doomsday as a man modeled after and voiced by him who jeers at Superman for busting up a "mechanical spider", a jab at the Warner Bros. Superman film he and producer Jon Peters worked on that never came to be.
- Producer Jon Peters wanted Superman to fight a giant spider, an idea Kevin Smith wrote into his script for the abandoned film; Tim Burton took over and discarded Smith's screenplay, and a giant mechanical spider instead appeared in the climax of 1999's Wild Wild West, which Peters co-produced.
- Superman: Doomsday's violence and profane language earned it a PG-13 from the MPAA, the first time an animated Superman project received such a strong rating.
- Three months after the DVD's release, Variety reported it had sold 600,000 copies, 30% more than the studio predicted; it is the highest-selling entry in DC's direct-to-video series, at more than 680,000 units.
- The film's U.S. Cartoon Network premiere aired in a heavily edited format, and the South Korean release carries an edit of Superman flying over South Korea congratulating Ban Ki-moon on becoming the 8th UN Secretary-General.
