James Gunn Says He’s Not Making a “Young Superman” Movie Despite Ditching Henry Cavill

Kolanaki , 10 months ago

This implies he is making GERIATRIC SUPERMAN!

Faster than a speeding snail! Able to leap the tallest curb! He can see through very thin pieces of paper with his X-ray vision!

Fantomas , 10 months ago

I’m so done with superhero films.

lobut , 10 months ago

Same. I considered myself a superhero movie fan. Saw every MCU movie for years and everything.

I think after Eternals, Synder Cut … I just lost the desire to watch them. I liked Shang Chi, I even may want to see The Marvels because it looks fun, but I haven’t seen GotG3, Multiverse, Quantimania, Thor Love and Thunder … Alongside the DCEU movies as well.

theinspectorst , 10 months ago

GotG3 is definitely worth seeing. Doctor Strange 2 and Ant-Man 3 were pretty missable.

I think the lesson I've taken from this is that the massive multiversal stakes of the latter two - which I assume Marvel thought necessary to try to top what they'd already done with Thanos - just don't really work. They can't top Thanos eradicating half of the universe, and they shouldn't try.

Whereas GotG3 was pretty low stakes by comparison, but as those stakes related to a specific character we had come to care about then it just worked so much better.

realcaseyrollins OP , 10 months ago

I might be the only person who didn't hate Quantummania. I thought it was actually a return to form for the MCU; we forget this, but most MCU movies are actually just okay: not bad, but not terrible either.

I think that multiverse stuff works better if you care about what's in the universe. We care more about Earth if Iron Man is still alive and has a family waiting for him at home than if he's already dead and gone. Marvel should have focused on building up likeable characters before diving into this multiverse stuff.

Crashumbc , 10 months ago

I liked quantummaina also.

I am getting tired of Disney’s influence though. Not everything needs a feel good teaching “moment”… The whole thing with Drax and being stupid and Nebula learning his worth was SO overplayed.

realcaseyrollins OP , 10 months ago

I thought it worked, but not completely. Maybe because it'd make more sense if Nebula kept ridiculing Drax because she likes him the mot but is afraid of long-term emotional attachments.

WorldWideLem , 10 months ago

I thought it was okay, which as you said is almost par for the course, but it felt like a generic Marvel movie whereas the first two had some fun heist elements to them. Gave them a unique feel within the MCU that I missed in this one.

secondaccountlemmy , 10 months ago

GOTG3 is great so at least go for that.

FatTony , 10 months ago

This ought to be good. But not in a good sense.

jordanlund , 10 months ago

I don’t know why, Gunn is turning out absolute bangers for superhero stuff.

Guardians of the Galaxy 1-3
The Suicide Squad
Peacemaker

Anyone who can do a live action Starro the Conqueror and legit make it horrifying? Come on!

LordGloom , 10 months ago

Definitely all bangers! I like that he’s planning on using some lesser known DC properties. Booster Gold, Creature Commandos, and a new Swamp Thing movie. What I don’t like is he said he wants the live action actors to voice any upcoming DC animation, and video games too. IMO I think he’s just doing it to make more money for his actor buds, but at the expense of some of really great voice actors. The Arkham games, and DCAU has always had excellent voice casts.

jordanlund , 10 months ago

Agreed, but now that Kevin Conroy is gone, it seems fit for a reboot.

Crackhappy , 10 months ago

My personal favorite outside Kevin is Jensen.

Microw , 10 months ago

“But Henry Cavill is such a nice guy! Why would they ditch him, just like…” checks notes “every other big franchise he had?”

chickenwing , 10 months ago

The only other franchise he was in was the Witcher. Both the Witcher and Superman failed due to bad writing not the acting.

Microw , 10 months ago

They failed because of drama behind the scenes. His camp says that it was bad writing, the producers say that Cavill tried to overstep his role. Both things can be true.

chickenwing , 10 months ago

He was a big fan of the books and the games. He wanted some creative control because the writers were going off source material. I don’t blame him for leaving. His reputation was on the line as he was the main character.

pacific , 10 months ago

Are you saying he’s not a nice guy? Also, why are you writing notes for 2 things? How many notes do you have?!

Moobythegoldensock , 10 months ago

A fan asked Gunn if his “young Superman movie” is set in the past. Gunn replied: “I was never making a ‘young Superman’ movie, just a Superman movie!”