Even before we first sawa traileror learned about its stamp , expectations for James Gunn’sSupermanmovie were sky - high . As the starting decimal point for a new slate of DC projects , and the first solo motion picture for the superhero in over a decade , everyone knows there’sa lot of pressurehere .
To help celebrateSuperman Day — the character debuted April 18 , 1938 inactiveness Comics#1 — and to build up hoopla , Warner Bros. released a featurette for the upcoming pic . If you ’re invested in the movie ’s production , the television is worth looking at , but its bigger point in time is to show how much the cast of characters and producer Peter Safran believe in Gunn . Rachel Brosnahan , Lois Lane herself , saying “ In James Gunn we swear ! ” at the end could n’t be any clearer and is already a sentiment in some spaces .
Just about everyone ’s coming intoSupermanwith turmoil or some rarity about Gunn ’s aim . For its star , this movie give them the opportunity to work with a filmmaker who they ’ve team up with previously or whose end product they just savour : both Nathan Fillion ( Guy Gardner ) and Nicholas Hoult ( Lex Luthor ) praised Gunn ’s committal to writing and the “ heart ” found in his earlier picture show . Others signed on because they ’re sports fan of Superman himself and dig whatever Gunn ’s got cooking now orin the futurity . Fillion , Edi Gathegi ( Mr. Terrific ) , and Frank Grillo ( Rick Flag Sr . ) tattle up its potential greatness , with Grillo proudly predicting it will be a “ game changer . ”
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We ’ll see ifSupermanachieves that position when it shoot theaters on July 11 .
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