James Gunn's SUPERMAN Was Planned as a Standalone Film Before The DCU Reboot Was Announced
James Gunn was initially hired to write a Superman movie for Warner Bros. in 2022 with an eye to direct. He was hired by Mike Deluca at the time and Gunn recently revealed that the plan was to make a standalone Superman movie in the same way that Matt Reeves made a standalone Batman movie. It was going to be a standalone film separate from the DCEU.
Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav later decided to scrap the DCEU and start from scratch, and then thought it would be a smart move to have Gunn take charge of the reboot with Peter Safran. Gunn and Safran planned out the first leg of their DCU journey with Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters and Gunn is now in production on Superman, which will launch the film side of the DCU.
Fans are really excited to see what Gunn ends up doing with Superman, and I believe that he’s going to pull off something awesome!
Superman will tell the story of “Superman’s journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent of Smallville, Kansas. He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way, guided by human kindness in a world that sees kindness as old-fashioned.”
Superman stars David Corenswet as Clark Kent / Superman; Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane; Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor; Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern; Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl; Edi Gathegi as Michael Holt / Mr. Terrific; Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen; María Gabriela de Faría as Angela Spica, aka The Engineer; Sara Sampaio, as Eve Teschmacher; and Terence Rosemore as Otis.
Superman will launch the movie part of DC Studios’ Gods and Monsters: Part 1. It’s scheduled for a theatrical release on July 11, 2025.
James Gunn said when Michael De Luca hired him to write ‘SUPERMAN’ in around August 2022 it was going to be separate from the DCEU similar to ‘THE BATMAN’ & the 'Black Superman' project by JJ Abrams & Ta-Nehisi Coates which would be a separate Elseworld project rather than part of a shared universe.
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