When Superman snapped Zod’s neck in Man of Steel, naturally that marked the end of the Kryptonian general’s story in the DC Extended Universe… at least in life, since his corpse was used to create Doomsday in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. However, with The Flash seeing Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen travel through the multiverse, we’ll meet a different version of Zod in this 2023 new movie release. But Michael Shannon only agreed to appear in The Flash on one condition, which involved director Zack Snyder.
Ahead of The Flash’s arrival in theaters, Shannon sat down with Vanity Fair to go over some of his biggest roles, which includes reprising Zod in the upcoming DC movie. After discussing how he was initially confused by the multiverse concept, the actor had this to say:
