Back in December, when new DC Studios co-boss James Gunn introduced that he was growing a brand new Superman film with out Henry Cavill within the lead function, he mentioned it was as a result of the film could be “specializing in an earlier a part of Superman’s life”—resulting in everybody making the pure assumption that this is able to be some sort of origin story. Then, David Corenswet was introduced because the lead of the movie, now referred to as Superman: Legacy, which match with what Gunn had mentioned initially: Cavill is 40, which is clearly too previous to be in a film, whereas Corenswet is just 30, which is without doubt one of the youngest ages you will be.
But maintain up, says Gunn. Just as a result of his film is about an earlier a part of Superman’s life, and since he moved on from the earlier actor for being too previous, and since he employed an actor who’s a decade youthful doesn’t imply he’s making a film a couple of “younger Superman.” Wherever would somebody get an concept that absurd? Gunn supplied this clarification(?) on Threads, the new new social media platform made by a nasty billionaire (not the anti-nuke drama of the similar identify), in response to a query somebody had about Blue Beetle and the way it suits into this universe with a youthful Superman.
Gunn defined(?) that he “was by no means making a ‘younger Superman’ film, only a Superman film,” which doesn’t reply the fan’s unique query and likewise introduces additional questions. But it wouldn’t be Superman: Legacy if we didn’t have questions, since that is additionally the mission the place Gunn adopted up the information that he was hiring Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan as Clark and Lois Lane by casting individuals to play Guy Gardner (possibly the third most necessary Green Lantern?), Hawkgirl, Mister Terrific, and (later) Metamorpho. Those would all be weird characters to incorporate in a “younger Superman film,” however since this apparently isn’t that… it’s nonetheless fairly bizarre, truly.
