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

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• Fantomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m so done with superhero films.

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • secondaccountlemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      GOTG3 is great so at least go for that.

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    • theinspectorst@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• FatTony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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    • LordGloom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Microw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • chickenwing@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • pacific@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?!

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• Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!”

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This implies he is making GERIATRIC SUPERMAN!

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