I appeased Warner Bros. by not calling it a spider. I called it a Thanagarian snare beast....

Kevin Smith: I appeased Warner Bros. by not calling it a spider. I called it a Thanagarian snare beast. Jon Schnepp: Another Hawkman reference. Kevin Smith: A little Hawkman reference. The planet Thanagar or something like that. Just little things to throw in and the Warner Bros. execs were like, "As long as it doesn't say spider, we don't give a fuck. We know it's a spider. Call it what you --" I mean, snare beast? Like come on. Jon Schnepp: [talking to Jon Peters] What made you want to tell "The Death of Superman"? Jon Peters: I loved, you know, dramatic structures. So the idea was the death of Superman. Chaos rules. Really, I knew it could be amazing. I just felt it in my bones. Kevin Smith: They wanted to do "The Death of Superman" storyline that had been done very successfully in the comics a few years before. "Death" and "Return".