It wasn’t precisely a shock to study that James Gunn’s Superman was getting a sequel. The primary film was a strong hit, and Gunn himself, whereas stopping wanting confirming a sequel, spoke brazenly concerning the character’s future in his new DCU. That stated, the truth that a sequel was introduced so quickly, full with a launch date in 2027, was a little bit of a shock. And but, that’s not probably the most surprising factor about Man of Tomorrow.
A part of the rationale that saying a launch date lower than two years away is a shock is that it signifies that filming might want to begin in lower than a 12 months, which signifies that a script will have to be carried out very quickly. Whereas one may suppose that might put appreciable time and stress on James Gunn, it seems that’s not the case, as a result of the script for Man of Tomorrow has already been written. In response to a fan on Threads who requested Gunn how a lot of the script had been written, he stated…
All of it. Simply within the essential and prolonged stage [of] rewriting and rewriting some extra. It has been a whole lot of enjoyable.
This goes an extended method to clarify simply why all people was keen to announce the upcoming DC film, with a title and a launch date, lower than two months after Superman hit theaters. Whereas sequels can typically get the greenlight shortly after an authentic movie’s success, they’re not often given launch dates as a result of work on them usually hasn’t really began but.
We all know this 12 months’s different huge field workplace hit, Lilo & Sew, is getting a sequel too, however no one has provided that one a launch date as a result of it is unlikely anyone even is aware of what the film can be but, a lot much less has written a script. This makes it fairly stunning that the primary draft of the script is already carried out. When the heck did he have time to write down it?
James Gunn is the co-head of DC Studios. He wrote and directed Superman. He wrote all of Peacemaker Season 2, and he directed a whole lot of it. He wrote all the Creature Commandoes animated sequence. When has this man had time to write down one other film?
He definitely might have written it within the final two months, as soon as his work on Superman was carried out, however writing an entire script in two months is a fairly quick tempo. And I figured he may take it simple and take a break after ending Superman earlier than leaping into the sequel.
On condition that James Gunn both discovered time to work on the sequel script amongst all his different initiatives or hammered it out within the final couple of months, evidently inspiration struck, and he knew precisely what the sequel to Superman wanted to be. Past the title, Man of Tomorrow, we all know little or no. Though the announcement got here with a picture of Superman and Lex Luthor, the latter carrying an influence go well with that’s well-known within the comics for giving Lex the flexibility to combat Superman himself.
Whereas there’s nonetheless work to be carried out to get the script in its remaining kind, and whereas, as Gunn says, that takes time, the truth that the script is in any other case carried out means it’s unlikely that Man of Tomorrow will see any important delays. The film actually goes to hit in two years. I can’t wait.