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James Gunn’s “Superman” was the success of DC Studios needed. The film is now the most profitable superhero film of 2025, and the public has largely fallen for the serious and silly socket by David Corenswet on the steel man.
A sequel certainly arrives, but Warner Bros. Discovery avoided the “Superman 2.” sentence in an interesting way During WBD T2 2025 T2 2025 results, CEO David Zaslav said Gunn wrote the next “Family Superman” film. Gunn himself also told the Hollywood Reporter that he had finished treatment for the next film “Superman Saga”.
Keep in mind that the next film in the DC universe will be “Supergirl”, continuing to surprise Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock) Cameo in “Superman”. The theory of the race is that the next Gunn DC film will be a Superman & Supergirl Team-Up film; That is to say a series of two films in one. What threat could be so great that he needs two The Kryptonians (and their dog) face it? We can already know.
The behind -the -scenes functionality “Adventures in the Making of Superman” (currently set up on YouTube) offers coarse tailor -made storyboards that Gunn uses to illustrate his childhood love for superman comics. One of the sketches (visible at 2:18) shows that Superman, Supergirl and Krypto all flying together, referring to a suite could indeed unite the trio. In the panel under them, there is also a bald head with several bulb -shaped knots on it. Superman fans will recognize who is – Brainiac, one of the deadliest enemies of Kal -El.
If nothing else, the idea of a film Superman and Supergirl clearly crossed Gunn’s mind. (How could it, right?) He also said that he was planning to use Brainiac as a wicked “Superman” before settling on Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult).
Superman & Supergirl vs Brainiac seems more and more likely
Created in 1958 by the writer Otto Binder and the artist Al Plastino, Brainiac has evolved a little since its beginnings in “Action Comics” # 242. Generally, it is represented as a stranger to green skin. Sometimes it is a cyborg, while at other times, it is an artificial intelligence, but it is still as intelligent as its name suggests.
His goal is to collect knowledge, which he often does by visiting planets, shrinking a city of his choice and stuffing it in a bottle. One of its stolen cities is the Kandor city of the Khryptonian city. He is sometimes called “the collector of the worlds” for this reason.
Brainiac was originally described as coming from the planet Colu, but certain subsequent versions (in particular the cartoons “Superman: The Animated Series” and “My Adventures With Superman”) redesigned it as a Kryptonian IA. It gives him a much more personal link with Superman. Based on what we learn about Krypton in “Superman”, the Kryptonians creating an AI that turns into a planet Raider seems plausible.
But even without Brainiac presenting himself in these storyboards, he is the logical choice for the villain in a “Superman” follow -up. The first film used Lex Luthor, so now use Superman following The largest sworn enemy. Brainiac has never been presented in a live film before (to compare: it would be as if the Riddler had never appeared in a “Batman” film live), so its cinematographic beginnings are expected for a long time.
But his arrival could predict something heartbreaking. The comic strip “Superman: Brainiac” 2008 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank presents Superman and Supergirl preventing the brain from destroying the earth. But Superman is so busy fighting, it happens too late to save his father, who suffers from a heart attack. Clark and his father’s link were a highlight of Gunn’s “Superman”, so watching Clark Lose could compete with Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) Lose his adoptive father Yondu (Michael Rooker) in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. From Gunn.
“Superman” plays in theaters and came out on the media at home. “Supergirl” is expected to go out in theaters on June 26, 2026.
