Director James Gunn has clarified that Superman: Legacy is not going to be a “younger Superman film.”
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Gunn, director of films like Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad, and Tremendous, shall be kicking off the DC Universe movies with Superman: Legacy. A little bit of controversy arose when he determined to not have actor Henry Cavill reprise his function from the DC Prolonged Universe starting with 2013’s Man of Metal.
As Gunn is rebooting the universe, he lately forged new actors to exchange Cavill’s Superman and Amy Adams as Lois Lane. His new actors are David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. In December 2022, Gunn tweeted, “Within the preliminary phases, our story shall be specializing in an earlier a part of Superman’s life, so the character is not going to be performed by Henry Cavill.”
Nevertheless, in a latest Threads put up, Gunn clarified, “I used to be by no means making a ‘younger Superman’ film, only a Superman film!” It seems that Gunn desires to start out from a clear slate, telling his personal story with out the luggage of all of the DC Prolonged Universe installments that got here earlier than it.