A New Superman Featurette Puts Faith in Its Hero and James Gunn

Even earlier we archetypal saw a trailer oregon learned astir its cast, expectations for James Gunn’s Superman movie were sky-high. As the starting constituent for a caller slate of DC projects, and the archetypal solo movie for the superhero successful implicit a decade, everyone knows there’s a batch of pressure here.

To assistance observe Superman Day—the quality debuted April 18, 1938 successful Action Comics #1—and to physique up hype, Warner Bros. released a featurette for the upcoming film. If you’re invested successful the movie’s production, the video is worthy looking at, but its bigger constituent is to amusement however overmuch the formed and shaper Peter Safran judge successful Gunn. Rachel Brosnahan, Lois Lane herself, saying “In James Gunn we trust!” astatine the extremity couldn’t beryllium immoderate clearer and is already a sentiment successful immoderate spaces.

Just astir everyone’s coming into Superman with excitement oregon immoderate curiosity astir Gunn’s aims. For its stars, this movie gave them the accidental to enactment with a filmmaker who they’ve teamed with antecedently oregon whose output they conscionable enjoy: some Nathan Fillion (Guy Gardner) and Nicholas Hoult (Lex Luthor) praised Gunn’s penning and the “heart” recovered successful his earlier movies. Others signed connected due to the fact that they’re fans of Superman himself and excavation immoderate Gunn’s got cooking present oregon in the future. Fillion, Edi Gathegi (Mr. Terrific), and Frank Grillo (Rick Flag Sr.) speech up its imaginable greatness, with Grillo proudly predicting it volition beryllium a “game changer.”

We’ll spot if Superman achieves that presumption erstwhile it hits theaters connected July 11.

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