James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy isn’t occurring.
That’s as a result of the film — which is formally in manufacturing as of immediately, February 29 — now has a brand new identify. To any extent further, it’s simply Superman.
Gunn posted a photograph to his Instagram account revealing the information, writing “overjoyed to be saying the beginning of principal images on SUPERMAN immediately, February 29, which simply so occurs to be – coincidentally and unplanned – Superman’s birthday.”
“After I completed the primary draft of the script, I referred to as the movie Superman: Legacy,” he added. “ By the point I locked the ultimate draft, it was clear the title was SUPERMAN.”
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Gunn’s submit features a close-up of the brand new Superman defend, which resembles the gained worn by the Man of Metal within the ’90s comedian sequence Kingdom Come, with that comedian’s black and purple shade scheme subbed out for the character’s extra conventional yellow and purple.
In that sequence, set in a darkish alternate future, a brand new technology of heroes proves ill-equipped to guard the world, resulting in the older members of the Justice League — together with Superman — to return from retirement to confront them. Though Kingdom Come has by no means been tailored to a movie, the model of Superman performed by Brandon Routh within the Arrowverse’s “Disaster on Infinite Earths” crossover wore a model of that very same Superman uniform. (Routh, in fact, beforehand performed the Man of Metal in 2006’s Superman Returns.)
Superman (not Superman: Legacy) is at present scheduled to open in theaters on July 11, 2025. It’s meant to be the primary movie in a model new DC Comics cinematic universe, overseen by Gunn.
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