James Gunn is celebrating the rollout of the trailer for Superman after releasing the preview for the DC Studios movie on Thursday, December 19.
The DC Studios co-head and filmmaker took to social media to thank everybody for his or her help.
“Krypto actually did take us residence: With over 250 million views and one million social posts, Superman is formally essentially the most considered and essentially the most talked about trailer within the historical past of each DC and Warner Bros,” Gunn posted on X, the microblogging platform previously often known as Twitter.
He continued, “That is due to all of you: thanks! We’re extremely grateful and, most of all, excited to share this film with you in July. Pleased Holidays!”
Superman stars David Corenswet within the titled function, which is ready for launch on July 11, 2025. The forged contains Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, and María Gabriela de Faría as The Engineer. The ensemble contains Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, Sean Gunn, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Isabel Merced, and Nathan Fillion.
Earlier than the trailer was launched to most people, Deadline was able to screen it on Monday, the place the director shared perception into the preview, saying, “We do have a battered Superman originally, and I believe that’s our nation.”
Gunn famous that Superman was “a film about kindness. It was a film about being good,” including, “I imagine within the goodness of human beings, and I imagine that most individuals on this nation regardless of their ideological beliefs or politics are doing their greatest to get by and try to be good folks regardless of what it’d seem to be to the opposite aspect or what that different aspect is perhaps, and I believe this film is about that.”
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Beforehand, Gunn had shared that every one DC media from the previous influenced his tackle the superhero basic.
“I believe that every one earlier DC media influenced me,” Gunn mentioned, in accordance with IGN. “I believe that clearly the unique Donner film influenced me, however there’s additionally plenty of issues that this isn’t, like I’m simply making a Donner-type film. It’s very completely different from that. Zack [Snyder] did some glorious stuff. So there’s plenty of ways in which influenced me.”
He continued, “There’s plenty of methods by which the DC animated universe [influenced me], after which there’s plenty of stuff from the comedian books – above and past the rest, All-Star Superman – that influenced me greater than something. To take that form of Silver Age really feel, that form of science-fiction strategy to it with devices, Lex [Luthor] can be a form of sorcerer in a means. He’s a scientist, however he’s so good at science and I consider him as like a sorcerer.”
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Though filming for Superman wrapped at the end of July, Gunn lately shared on Threads he was going back into production “doing a day and a half of pickup photographs,” including, “No scenes. No reshoots. Only a handful of particular person photographs to reinforce the movie.”
