A brand new Superman film is lastly on the way in which as a part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new tackle the DC Universe. Safran and Gunn, who are actually coheads of Warner Bros.’ DC Studios, have introduced an inventory of 10 initiatives (together with two Batman films) that can kick off the brand new DCU beginning with Superman: Legacy in 2025.
Whereas we don’t have too many particulars about Superman: Legacy simply but, right here’s every part we do know in regards to the Man of Metal’s newest foray into movie.
Henry Cavill gained’t play Superman
The earlier Superman, who began his tenure in 2013’s Man of Metal, has hung up his cape for good and gained’t be returning as Superman for Gunn’s new movie. Whereas we’ve recognized this since December 2022, we nonetheless don’t know who will take up the mantle subsequent. Gunn has teased that it’ll be a youthful tackle Clark Kent, though he’ll already be sufficiently old to work on the Day by day Planet.
What’s Superman: Legacy about?
Past the youth-skewing method to the movie, Gunn says his way into the Superman story is “centering round Superman’s heritage — how each his aristocratic Kryptonian mother and father and his Kansas farmer mother and father inform who he’s and the alternatives he makes.”
James Gunn is directing and writing the film
Gunn will deal with the scripting for Superman: Legacy, which ought to put him within the place to arrange his new DCU in no matter method he can. His position as author clearly makes this a distinct challenge than the film J.J. Abrams was growing with Ta-Nehisi Coates earlier, which is reportedly nonetheless within the works as a “DC Elseworlds” movie.
Gunn can even direct the film, which he announced in March after initially being undecided on whether or not he’d tackle that position. In a collection of tweets about his resolution, Gunn defined that he initially turned Superman down years in the past as a result of he didn’t really feel he had a method into the story that felt distinctive. And even after discovering his method into the script, Gunn remained unconvinced that he ought to write the film. In one tweet, Gunn stated, “Simply because I write one thing doesn’t imply I really feel it in my bones, visually and emotionally, sufficient to spend over two years directing it, particularly not one thing of this magnitude.”
Lastly, after a little bit extra convincing, Gunn decided to direct the movie himself as a result of he preferred the script a lot.
This might be Gunn’s first directorial challenge after 2023’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and his first film within the DC Universe since Suicide Squad in 2021.
When will Superman: Legacy be launched?
Superman: Legacy is about to reach in theaters on July 11, 2025. This appears to be the primary of the brand new slate of DCU initiatives to get a launch date and can even be launched forward of The Batman Half 2, which is about to come back out in Oct. 3, 2025.
