While the DCU of James Gunn launches with the first of SupermanHis Marvel days seem to be in the past for the moment.
After the 2018 director oust from the Galaxy goalkeepers A franchise, Gunn admitted that he “thought that my career was over”, but fortunately, he and Peter Safran were exploited for Co-chefs of DC Studios in 2022, opening the door to his next superhero project.
“Toby Emmerich de Warner Bros. At the time came to me. He says to me: ” Superman“” He recalls on the Expert armchair podcast. “I said,” I don’t know, guy “. And then he said to himself: ‘Well, what about Suicide team? So I had an idea. I went to present it. They said to themselves: “Yes, let’s do it”. »»
The same day, Gunn said he had received a Disney CCO Horn call afterwards after the boss of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, had campaigned to recover his work.
“I went to Kevin. I went to his basement where he has all his Star Wars Figures like a small museum and he said, “It’s incredible. I say to myself: “Yeah, that’s good, but I have to do anything else.” And – Oh my God, I did not remember it until that time – Kevin said: “Ugh, you do Superman? ‘”
David Corenswet in ‘Superman’
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The project was actually its continuation in 2021 The suicide teamthat he directed before returning to Marvel for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).
When asked if he felt an “ethical dilemma” jumping for DC, Gunn said, “No, I just shook my head. I didn’t feel that because I was dismissed. ”
“Listen, there are people I am not so happy [at Disney]But it was certainly not the Marvel guys, you know? explained Gunn. [Marvel Studios Co-President] Louis d’Esposito called me all the time. Lou and Kevin were great. So it was certainly not them. But I didn’t feel guilt at all. I mean, I had to take a job! I took a job [with] People I also liked, and that’s it. »»
Since its management of DC studios with Safran, Superman Mark the first entry of his new DCU franchise, which begins with the phase of “gods and monsters”.
In theaters on July 11, Superman features David Corenswet in the titular role. In addition to Rachel Brosnahan as Lane Lane, the distribution also includes Nicholas Hoult like Lex Luthor and María Gabriela de Faría as an engineer, as well as Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, Sean Gunn, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Isabel Merced and Nathan Farlion.
