Wait, that was also Peters? I was thinking, “whoever the producer was, he was a Jon Peters-level idiot.” Boy that dude got involved with a lot of comic properties he didn’t understand and which he managed to get tangled up in development purgatory until they escaped his grasp. (Though he did get listed as a producer on the last two Superman movies, so I’m not sure what happened there - someone else obviously took point and he couldn’t insist on his spider fetish.)
Yeah, it doesn’t enormously change the character, but he’s got an iconic look/style/persona they’ve changed, which adds an interesting wrinkle.
I wondered about that - if they merged a couple characters together as part of the change.
