James Gunn
appears to have taken to his new position as co-CEO of DC Studios with ease, and is about to face the true first check of the revamped DCU with this summer time’s launch of Superman
. Nonetheless, behind the scenes, it isn’t unfair to say that challenges are being confronted day-after-day to iron out creases, weed out doubtlessly disappointing scripting and manufacturing outcomes, and guarantee what makes it to screens is the perfect it may be. And Gunn already is aware of that he, his fellow co-CEO, and their prolonged crew is not going to get every thing proper.
Superman is within the can and able to roll out this July, however in the course of the current press occasion for DC Studio’s upcoming slate, Gunn defined that there are some thrilling issues to return – together with an unannounced collection he calls his favourite mission to this point – however he additionally is aware of that there are already small issues that he regrets.
“I imply, life is sophisticated. There’s at all times little issues. Like I want I did that in another way. I want I requested David (Corenswet) to try this take in another way, it’s similar to little issues. There’s writers that we placed on initiatives that I want we didn’t, however general, I really feel simply so fortunate. I imply, the truth that, Ana (Nogueira) was on Supergirl, got here out with this nice script. The truth that there’s one other…my favourite mission no person even is aware of about but. It’s been my favourite mission for a number of months. No one even is aware of it.”

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The world of DC motion pictures has, on the entire, been affected by fixed disappointments amongst some excellent highs. For each mission like Christopher Nolan’s Darkish Knight trilogy, there are a number of Shazam! Fury of the Gods. For each Gunn and Safran, there are undoubtedly challenges forward, and they’re fully conscious that not every thing they do will land completely. As Gunn defined:
“We’re a corporation of mainly 13 folks that’s in a position to produce all this materials and have it go and have all of it be top quality. We’re going to make errors. Some issues are going to be higher than others… So we’re doing every thing we are able to to make every thing nearly as good as potential. And I really feel remarkably lucky.”
Safran adopted this up by reiterating how far DC Studios has superior in two years, as regardless of just one mission being launched in that point – Creature Commandos – the work that has gone on behind the scenes to develop and put together the longer term slate of films is placing the franchise in an excellent place. He mentioned:
“As exhausting as we’re on ourselves, if two years in the past, after we all sat on this room collectively, we mentioned, this shall be your output two years from now, I believe we might have been stunned that we might accomplish that a lot. Notably with the 5 months of pencils down in our first yr, they have been at all times actually problematic for everyone. So I believe we really feel fairly good (in regards to the future).”
There is no such thing as a one which believes the arrival of Superman goes to go with out loads of comparisons to the previous – particularly Henry Cavill’s most up-to-date iteration – and complaints from those that are nonetheless sad with how the previous DCEU ended – particularly Henry Cavill’s most up-to-date iteration. Are you recognizing a theme? However it is a new DCU, a brand new imaginative and prescient, and a brand new inventive voice. All of that wants time to develop and evolve, and it’s clear that the way forward for the franchise is wanting extra cohesive and doubtlessly profitable than it has within the final ten years.
Superman
- Launch Date
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July 11, 2025
- Director
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James Gunn
- Producers
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Lars P. Winther, Peter Safran