A brand new Superman film is lastly on the way in which as a part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new tackle the DC Universe. Safran and Gunn, who at the moment are coheads of Warner Bros.’ DC Studios, have introduced an inventory of 10 tasks (together with two Batman motion pictures) that can kick off the brand new DCU beginning with Superman: Legacy in 2025.
While we don’t have too many particulars about Superman: Legacy simply but, right here’s everything we do know in regards to the Man of Steel’s newest foray into movie.
Henry Cavill received’t play Superman
The earlier Superman, who began his tenure in 2013’s Man of Steel, has hung up his cape for good and received’t be returning as Superman for Gunn’s new movie. While we’ve identified this since December 2022, we nonetheless don’t know who will take up the mantle subsequent. Gunn has teased that it’ll be a youthful tackle Clark Kent, though he’ll already be sufficiently old to work on the Daily Planet.
What’s Superman: Legacy about?
Beyond the youth-skewing method to the movie, Gunn says his way into the Superman story is “centering around Superman’s heritage — how both his aristocratic Kryptonian parents and his Kansas farmer parents inform who he is and the choices he makes.”
James Gunn is directing and writing the film
Gunn will deal with the scripting for Superman: Legacy, which ought to put him within the place to arrange his new DCU in no matter approach he can. His function as author clearly makes this a unique challenge than the film J.J. Abrams was creating with Ta-Nehisi Coates earlier, which is reportedly nonetheless within the works as a “DC Elseworlds” movie.
Gunn may even direct the film, which he announced in March after initially being undecided on whether or not he’d tackle that function. In a collection of tweets about his resolution, Gunn defined that he initially turned Superman down years in the past as a result of he didn’t really feel he had a approach into the story that felt distinctive. And even after discovering his approach into the script, Gunn remained unconvinced that he ought to write the film. In one tweet, Gunn mentioned, “Just because I write something doesn’t mean I feel it in my bones, visually and emotionally, enough to spend over two years directing it, especially not something of this magnitude.”
Finally, after somewhat extra convincing, Gunn decided to direct the movie himself as a result of he appreciated the script so a lot.
This shall be Gunn’s first directorial challenge after 2023’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and his first film within the DC Universe since Suicide Squad in 2021.
When will Superman: Legacy be launched?
Superman: Legacy is about to reach in theaters on July 11, 2025. This appears to be the primary of the brand new slate of DCU tasks to get a release date and will even be launched forward of The Batman Part 2, which is about to come back out in Oct. 3, 2025.
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