A number of days in the past, information broke that Milly Alcock’s Supergirl can be showing within the upcoming Superman adaptation. As well as, we acquired some casting information on her household. Extra particularly, we had been instructed veterans David Krumholtz and Emily Beecham can be enjoying her mother and father. Most followers appeared fairly happy with the brand new developments, however there was a really vocal minority on social media who all appeared to have the identical criticism: what number of freakin’ characters are going to be in James Gunn’s Superman film?
I get. Imagine me. I get it. There are lots of characters confirmed for this film, or at the very least closely rumored to be part of it. Along with Clark Kent and Lois Lane, we even have Lex Luthor, Inexperienced Lantern, Hawkgirl, Mister Terrific and Metamorpho. Then we’ve Clark Kent’s mother and father and Kara’s newly forged mother and father. Plus, regardless that Jason Momoa’s Lobo is reportedly making his debut within the Supergirl film, there are, after all, some who’re satisfied he would possibly present up right here too. In brief, it’s loads that we already learn about, and given Gunn’s historical past of world-building and love for cameos, it’s seemingly there’s much more we don’t learn about but.
So, on the one hand, I get among the followers complaining on social about this film feeling overstuffed, or the film feeling prefer it’s a brand new model of Justice League. Individuals are hyped to see a brand new tackle Superman, and if there are too many issues happening or there’s an excessive amount of energetic work being put into the bigger universe, it may come on the expense of the Superman film itself. In spite of everything, a very powerful factor right here is for all of us to go away the theater wanting extra Superman. If the film itself isn’t good, this new tackle the DC Universe goes to have a large uphill battle, whether or not seeds had been planted for different tales and extra characters or not.
However alternatively, all of us want to relax out. My colleague Adam Holmes wrote up a bit the opposite day in regards to the casting and talked about how we don’t even know if Krumholtz and Beecham are going to be enjoying Kara’s Kryptonian mother and father or her adoptive Earth mother and father. Both manner, we don’t know in the event that they’re going to be seen in a short flashback or they’re going to be a really current a part of the narrative, and the identical goes for Kara herself. Gunn has mentioned he’s not making new origin story films, however there’s a distinction between giving glimpses of a personality’s backstory and telling the complete journey from child to grownup.
I don’t desire a Superman film that’s full of incessant cameos and little hints of what’s to come back down the road. I don’t desire a revolving door of and right here’s this man and right here’s this girl. That’s not going to be useful to telling Superman’s story, but when the purpose right here is to launch a universe, there’s no purpose why there can’t be little moments and hints that nod to the very particular universe they’re residing in. I wager Kevin Feige would have made a number of modifications to among the early Marvel films if he knew he was creating a big universe with all of the MCU characters explored over dozens of flicks.
James Gunn has earned my confidence, particularly after that unbelievable Superman trailer. Sure, a lot of his films like Guardians Of The Galaxy and Suicide Squad have a ton of characters in them, however his monitor report reveals that he has a great sense for protecting the story he needs to inform on the middle. So, personally, regardless of what number of casting bulletins we get, I’m going to stay optimistic whereas we await Superman to fly off the upcoming film schedule and into theaters.