• Superman is helmed by DC Studios head James Gunn, who directed the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy for Marvel.
• Relative newcomer David Corenswet stars because the Man of Metal alongside Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult.
• It's due out this summer season.

Superman hasn't taken up his cape on the large display screen since, effectively, regardless of the heck was happening at the end of The Flash. That's about to vary, nonetheless, when author and director James Gunn kicks off a brand new period for DC with this 12 months's Superman.

The Guardians of the Galaxy director's upcoming movie stars David Corenswet as Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as reporter Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult because the sensible and merciless billionaire Lex Luthor. Provided that it's the beginning of a brand new franchise, it additionally contains a veritable slew of different heroes, villains, canines, and normies — however we'll get to them shortly.

First, let's reply the large questions. When is Superman popping out? What's it about? Is there a trailer? Is Supergirl gonna cameo or what? Learn on for the whole lot we find out about James Gunn's Superman.

When does Superman come out?

Superman will captivate audiences in a single certain starting on July 11.

Is there a Superman trailer?

Sure. Actually, there are two Superman trailers.

The first Superman trailer arrived final December and supplied glimpses not simply of Corenswet's Man of Metal, but additionally his Clark Kent at work on the Each day Planet alongside Lois Lane. Hoult's Lex Luthor casts a protracted shadow over the trailer, practically obscuring the short glimpses we get of Nathan Fillion's Inexperienced Lantern, Isabela Merced's Hawkgirl, Edi Gathegi's Mister Terrific, and Kryptonian robotic Kelex.

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We admit it's pushing it to name the following clip a "trailer," however the Superman staff shared an almost five-minute preview throughout April's CinemaCon that confirmed an prolonged reduce of the earlier trailer's opening scene, during which a battered Superman is saved by loyal pup Krypto and whisked to the Fortress of Solitude. The again half of the clip recycles lots of the photographs from the earlier trailer, however with a couple of new snippets.

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What’s Superman about?

An early synopsis for Superman revealed the movie "tells the story of Superman's journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage together with his human upbringing as Clark Kent of Smallville, Kansas. He’s the embodiment of reality, justice and the American manner, guided by human kindness in a world that sees kindness as old school."

Since then, Gunn has elaborated on a few of its plot factors and themes, together with whereas talking with Entertainment Weekly. "The central battle revolves so much round Lex Luthor's makes an attempt to defeat and destroy Superman," he advised us in April. "I believe Lex Luthor thinks of Superman in the best way that an artist thinks of A.I. Right here's this man who's this [incredible] genius scientist who's labored his complete life to turn into one of many richest, strongest males on the earth, and he does all of it to be lauded. I imply, he needs to be the best, and out of the blue this jerk is available in sporting a cape with a lantern jaw and a cocky grin, and he simply takes all the oxygen out of the room, out of the room of Earth, and it creates a burning hatred within the man."

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Gunn spoke about its broader themes with EW. "What I attempted to convey to it’s one thing stunning that’s concerning the goodness of human beings, about kindness in folks, as a result of that's what Superman represents to me," he mentioned. "He nearly represents one thing old school, and but I believe that's precisely what we’d like proper now: kindness, goodness, the innate ethical values that we grew up with, that someway the web has drowned out and deemed weak. That's who he’s, and that's what his energy is. In order that me."

Brosnahan shared her personal interpretation of the movie. "It feels prefer it actually is a narrative about what makes you human on the finish of the day," she mentioned. "And issues like love and curiosity and goodness and hope and braveness are all of the issues that make us human."

Is Superman a love story?

Isn't each telling of Superman one thing of a love story?

"I believe one of many issues that I cherished a lot concerning the Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, [Richard] Donner Superman was that it felt like a love story wrapped in a universe that was acquainted however not fairly our personal. And isn't love on the root of each story, in a manner?" Brosnahan advised us. "You must love so laborious to hate one thing, too. I believe it's fascinating to see these two characters exploring their love as a result of she's any individual, as you mentioned, who leads along with her head. He's any individual who leads together with his coronary heart."

For Gunn, the love story was a vital a part of his telling, with the director telling us that he sought to convey "a complexity to the connection between Superman and Lois, and likewise between Lois and Lex."

He added, "Now we have an excellent 10-minute scene of Lois and Clark going over their relationship, the best way they take a look at the world, their beliefs, their ethics, and the way that makes them who they’re."

What impressed Gunn's Superman?

Talking with EW, Gunn shared that the "tone and the look" of his Superman was impressed by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's All-Star Superman, a 12-issue run of comics launched between 2005 and 2008.

"I learn that comedian ebook, and it actually has this sense of the large, old-school, science-fiction Silver Age comics. Now we have robots and monster infants and large kaiju and all of that stuff," he mentioned. "However that can be grounded round these extremely actual relationships with a pair that has began relationship a couple of months in the past, and now they're actually studying the ins and outs of one another. What's good about them? What's not so good about them? And what are their beliefs like? Now we have Lois Lane, who's a pragmatist, and Superman is an idealist, and the way does that work collectively?"

Who's within the forged of Superman?

Enjoying Superman is relative newcomer David Corenswet, a Philadelphia-born actor whose profession started with main roles on a pair of Ryan Murphy Netflix sequence, The Politician (2019–2020) and Hollywood (2020). Within the years since, he's performed supporting roles in Pearl (2022) and Twisters (2024), in addition to the acclaimed HBO miniseries We Personal This Metropolis (2022).

"For me, relatively than take into consideration something outdated or new, I simply discovered that the factor that I used to be drawn to most with Superman was the strain between his love of humanity and the function that he can play for them and the loneliness that he feels in the truth that he can by no means fairly be certainly one of them," the actor advised EW. "And that performs out in so many alternative methods, not least of which is his love of being Clark Kent and attending to play as certainly one of them, no less than for brief intervals of time."

Each day Planet reporter Lois Lane, in the meantime, shall be performed by Rachel Brosnahan, the Emmy-winning star of Amazon Prime's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023). "Right now, we're dwelling in a world the place print journalism, to some maybe, is an endangered artwork kind," Brosnahan beforehand mentioned. "And she or he is somebody who has devoted her total life to it."

Additionally showing is tough-guy actor Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., who first performed the function in DC's animated sequence Creature Commandos. Gunn confirmed to EW that, along with showing on season 2 of Max's Peacemaker with John Cena, Grillo would additionally convey Rick to Superman.

"This isn't only a good man, under no circumstances," Gunn advised us. "We see all completely different sides of his character. He’s morally a posh human being. Grillo is any individual who I've identified for a short while, and I've wished to work with him for a very long time. He was one of many first people who I talked to once I took over the studio, like 'we're going to search out one thing cool for you,' and now he’s in every single place."

Rounding out the forged is Skyler Gisondo (The Righteous Gem stones) as photographer Jimmy Olsen, Wendell Pierce (The Wire) as Each day Planet editor-in-chief Perry White, Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) as businessman Maxwell Lord, and Beck Bennett (Saturday Night time Stay) as reporter Steve Lombard.

After which there's the superheroes. Nathan Fillion (The Rookie) performs Gunn's Inexperienced Lantern (replete with a comic-accurate bowl reduce), Edi Gathegi (For All Mankind) because the clever Mister Terrific, and Isabela Merced (Alien: Romulus) as Hawkgirl. Barry breakout Anthony Carrigan, in the meantime, will seem as Metamorpho, a person who, after being uncovered to a radioactive meteorite, learns to vary himself into completely different elemental compounds.

Lastly, Superman will even function a cameo from journalist Will Reeve, the son of the late Superman actor Christopher Reeve.

What about Lex Luthor?

Lex Luthor, the large dangerous of the Superman franchise, has taken on a number of skins over time. He's been portrayed as a ruthless businessman, an evil scientist, and a useless politician, whereas actors have performed the supervillain with differing strains of campy flash and real menace. In Gunn's Superman, Luthor shall be performed by Emmy-nominated actor Nicholas Hoult, who performed Beast within the X-Males franchise earlier than showing in movies like The Menu (2022), Juror #2 (2024), and Nosferatu (2024).

Beforehand, Hoult described Superman's Lex thusly: "This Lex is clearly sensible and ruthless, and he has to outmaneuver Superman on sure ranges as a result of he can't match him on different. There's additionally one thing about this character, hopefully from my standpoint, the place despite the fact that you maybe don't agree together with his course of, there's a component the place you’ll be able to perceive on some ranges the place he's coming from and why maybe what he's pushing as his ideology is probably higher for humanity."

Hoult would later contact on this side of his character when talking with EW, saying that Lex leads with a "love for humanity" and perceives himself as a protector of the bigger populace.

Pivoting off that, Corenswet mentioned, "This dialog made me see an fascinating, bizarre, unusual factor, which will not be true, however Lex is type of a mix of Superman and Lois, the place he has all of Lois' intelligence and foresight and skepticism that permits him to make these unimaginable advances and management the narrative and the federal government and all this stuff that he has management over," he mentioned. "However he has Superman's ardour for the world and for being a logo of one thing, standing for one thing, and being a public-facing image. And perhaps the downfall is that Lex has determined what's proper between these two and which ought to win out, whereas Superman and Lois are in a relentless battle about what is true, so that they every get checked by the opposite."

Hoult may't say a lot concerning the nature of his Lex's LuthorCorp, however he did drop that the corporate focuses on "tech protection." Gunn elaborated a bit, saying, "I believe Lex has invented among the best types of battery in the complete world that just about the whole lot runs on. And we don't ever speak about this within the film, however I believe that's the place he's made the vast majority of his cash."

What about Krypto? Krypto's in it, proper?

You wager. Krypto, Superman's canine, has appeared in quite a lot of Man of Metal tales over time, together with Smallville, Superman & Lois, and Titans. (And who may overlook the CW's animated Krypto the Superdog?)

Krypto has been a spotlight of the footage we've seen to date, which exhibits Krypto saving a bloody and battered Superman from the weather within the Arctic tundra outdoors the Fortress of Solitude.

Final 12 months, Gunn revealed his movie's Krypto was impressed by his personal rescue canine, Ozu. "Krypto was impressed by our canine Ozu, who we adopted shortly after I began writing Superman." he shared through X (previously Twitter). "Ozu, who got here from a hoarding state of affairs in a yard with 60 different canines & by no means knew human beings, was problematic to say the least. He instantly got here in & destroyed our residence, our footwear, our furnishings — he even ate my laptop computer. It took a very long time earlier than he would even allow us to contact him. I keep in mind pondering, 'Gosh, how troublesome would life be if Ozu had superpowers?' — and thus Krypto got here into the script & modified the form of the story as Ozu was altering my life."

Gunn introduced Ozu with him to the Pet Bowl in February and shared a couple of extra particulars about Krypto, who he calls his Superman's "greatest buddy." He mentioned, "Krypto has all of the powers of Superman and is as lovable and mischievous as lots of the irresistible pups we'll see right now."

How will Superman tease the brand new DC Universe?

In 2022, Gunn stepped up alongside Peter Safran as the brand new heads of DC Studios at Warner Bros, and it wasn't lengthy earlier than an entire new slate of superhero fare was introduced by the studio. All of it begins with Gunn's Superman, which is able to doubtless function appearances by among the characters that shall be main future DC movies and sequence.

One in every of them could very effectively be Milly Alcock's Supergirl, who will get her personal movie in the summertime of 2026. In January, The Hollywood Reporter mentioned that Alcock's Supergirl will "first seem in Gunn's Superman film," although it hasn't been confirmed by the studio.

After we requested Gunn about Superman's relation to the bigger DC universe, he mentioned:

I believe it's solely setting the tone as far as that that is one hundred pc a James Gunn film, and what I need with the longer term movies is for them to be the identical — not James Gunn films, however once I talked to Craig Gillespie who's doing Supergirl, I mentioned, 'I don't need all of those films to be the identical.' What I like about DC Comics is that you would be able to learn a narrative like The Darkish Knight, which is tonally very completely different due to its artist and author than Superman for All Seasons, than All-Star Superman, than [Batman:]The Lengthy Halloween. They're all these stunning tales throughout the similar world, however fully completely different. And that's what I believe is thrilling.

I believe that I realized from my time at Marvel. When Guardians of the Galaxy got here out, folks have been like, 'Nicely, how is that this raccoon going to work together with this God of Thunder who's been arrange in a completely completely different kind of film?' And that was the factor that folks preferred essentially the most about Infinity Wars. So it's about actually letting the artists create these distinctive visions that permit us to get to know these characters in several methods.

I sit up for the time when these characters — certainly one of them does present up fairly quickly…two of them really — so anyway, once they get to see them in a completely completely different gentle, in a completely completely different style and a movie that isn't the large spectacle, action-adventure, perhaps one thing extra dramatic, perhaps one thing extra comedic, no matter, and see these characters in a barely completely different gentle portrayed by the identical actors.

When he says "fairly quickly," it's laborious for us to not suppose he's referring to Superman.

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