The DC Universe might have formally started in December with the animated collection Creature Commandos, however lots of people’s entry level into this new franchise can be by way of James Gunn’s Superman. Not solely is the Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker placing his personal stamp on DC Comics’ Man of Metal like so many earlier than him, this upcoming DC film will even characteristic varied different superheroes working alongside David Corenswet’s Clark Kent. Now now we have one more take a look at Superman by way of a behind-the-scenes video, and it has Gunn gushing in regards to the title character and clearer seems at a few of these supporting heroes.
As we speak, April 18, is Superman Day, in honor of the character’s first look in Motion Comics #1 being launched on April 18, 1938. So clearly DC Studios was going to launch one thing to commemorate this entry on the 2025 films schedule. Check out what this new video has to showcase:
Following his work on The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker Season 1, not solely was James Gunn tapped to co-run DC Studios with producer Peter Safran, he took it upon himself to direct the following Superman film after discussing his pitch with Safran. As Gunn talked about within the video, he’s been attempting to “crack” his Superman concept for years, and as soon as he discovered his in for this “noble” and “stunning” character, it was full steam forward. Superman’s launch follows 12 years after the discharge of the final solo Superman film, Man of Metal.
This look into Superman’s principal images additionally contains David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Nathan Fillion, Edi Gathegi praising James Gunn’s imaginative and prescient and sharing their pleasure for the film’s launch. However what actually caught my eye on this video was the shut seems at Isabela Merced’s Hawkgirl and Anthony Carrigan’s Metamorpho. The latter is particularly notable as a result of whereas we obtained a take a look at Metamorpho’s face within the first Superman trailer, now now we have this full presentation of the character being dropped at life in live-action for the primary time.
Hawkgirl and Metamorpho will combat alongside Fillion’s Man Gardner and Gathegi’s Mr. Terrific in a staff, and occasions will unfold that additionally results in the staff becoming a member of forces with Superman. We even have Brosnahan’s Lois Lane, Hoult’s Lex Luthor, Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr. (whom we’ve already met in Creature Commandos), Skyler Gisondo’s Jimmy Olsen, Wendell Pierce’s Perry White, good boy Krypto and plenty of different distinguished DC characters set to indicate up in the summertime blockbuster. This behind-the-scenes video follows a number of weeks after the discharge of the prolonged Superman look that was first proven at CinemaCon.
Superman flies into theaters on July 11. Get away your Max subscription if you happen to’d prefer to stream the superhero’s previous movie and TV appearances earlier than his DC Universe debut.