The hunt for James Gunn’s Superman is heating up. Now that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has made its debut, the Director has ramped up his search for a cast to match his script. Recent reports have David Corenswet as the frontrunner to play the man of steel, as well as Nicholas Hoult being eyed for Lex Luthor. We’ve also heard that Gunn’s antagonist role in ‘SUPERMAN: LEGACY’ is reportedly labeled as “APEX” and James Gunn is looking at Black actors for the role.

“You know, listen… I don’t come to ‘Guardians 3’ and say, ‘I wanna write a movie that’s gonna make everybody cry.’ I don’t think about that. I just think I want to tell a story that treats the characters with dignity and compassion and is the best, most surprising, most moving story I can possibly tell. And if that ends up being just moving, because it’s a fun blast of a film or if it ends up being moving because you’re sobbing, or it makes you feel that rage, or whatever it makes you feel, I’m good with all of those things as long as it works.”

Gunn also believes Superman is an emotional character and should embody that human trait.

“And so, I can’t say I’m looking for any particular emotions to bring out through ‘Superman,’ but I don’t want it to be unemotional. I don’t want it to deny that we are, as human beings, emotional characters and that Superman is also that.”

Nicholas Hoult — Lex Luthor

Emma Mackey — Lois Lane

Samara Weaving — Lois Lane

Phoebe Dynevor — Lois Lane

Rachel Brosnahan — Lois Lane

Genre:

Action, Adventure, Drama

Release Date:

November 17, 2023

Director:

Denis Villeneuve

Cast:

Zendaya, Timothée Chalet, Florence Pugh, Austin Butler

Plot Summary:

At Zack Snyder’s recent Full Circle – SnyderCon event, the Zack Snyder’s Justice League Director dropped a bombshell. The original idea Snyder had for DC’s Gods, was that they originated from Krypton. Snyder revealed that in his original plans, Ares would have been responsible for Zeus’s Kryptonian ship crash landing on Earth. The Kryptonians would have gained different powers due to a “Scientific” explanation. Which in turn, would change the origins of Wonder Woman’s powers.

“[We thought] Zeus could possibly be Kryptonian so that Wonder Woman’s powers…anyway, you can sort of see where that’s going. The whole thing of whether or not magic or gods…there’s a version of where you’re like ‘That’s cool, I guess,’ then there’s the scientific aspect. You have the pathology of wondering where gods come from. We had played around with that quite a bit.” — Zack Snyder

Do you think Wonder Woman being a descendent of Krypton would have been better than following the DC Comics origin story?