Superman | July 11, 2025 | James Gunn writing and directing | David Corenswet is Clark, Rachel Brosnahan is Lois

[WittyUsername]

Not exactly related to this movie, but I’m glad he said this. The entire Internet was fan casting him as Lex Luthor back in 2013, and it was so uninspired.  

[ListenHunnyUrOver]

5 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

Not exactly related to this movie, but I’m glad he said this. The entire Internet was fan casting him as Lex Luthor back in 2013, and it was so uninspired.  

Bryan Cranston just doesn’t want to get involved with this cursed franchise. 😅

[Napoleon]

Oh, I didn't know he announced this. So, the new DCU will pick up from where The Flash ended? I thought it was a complete reboot. 

 

[dudalb]

2 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Oh, I didn't know he announced this. So, the new DCU will pick up from where The Flash ended? I thought it was a complete reboot. 

 

UI still think it's the  Judi Dench in "Casino Royale" scenario, where some actos wil lplay the same charecter, bu tthe Universe as a whole is reset. I see  nothing wrong or confusing about that.

[XXR & Friends]

7 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Oh, I didn't know he announced this. So, the new DCU will pick up from where The Flash ended? I thought it was a complete reboot. 

It should be a complete reboot. Them not taking the opportunity to do it is foolish.

[ZattMurdock]

3 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Oh, I didn't know he announced this. So, the new DCU will pick up from where The Flash ended? I thought it was a complete reboot. 

 

And it is. 
 

Gunn has also reportedly told us that the Batman role hasn’t been cast. Meaning, this Flash and that Earth’s Batman (George Clooney) aren’t part of the new DCU. Call the DCEU Earth 2 or something.

 

It’s a confusing mess, I will give you that, but no, The Flash is clearly the end of the DCEU. It gives a getaway from prison card to recast and justify why the new world is different, despite not making that much sense really.

[poweranimals]

I really think they need a full fledged reboot personally. This current universe is a disaster and trying to build on that can't end well imo.

[ZattMurdock]

Like we talked about weeks ago. Glad to see the Rosenbaum’s James Gunn interview is starting to make the rounds. It’s an amazing in depth interview, more people interested on the DCU and the superhero genre in general should see it.

[dudalb]

1 hour ago, XXRkham Asylum said:

It should be a complete reboot. Them not taking the opportunity to do it is foolish.

I don't gey why if an actor is a good in a role, he or she should not be retained in the reboot., all other thngs being equal.

Thye  are actors playing a role......I think the GA gets this, even though some Geeks do not.

[ZattMurdock]

4 minutes ago, dudalb said:

I don't gey why if an actor is a good in a role, he or she should not be retained in the reboot., all other thngs being equal.

Thye  are actors playing a role......I think the GA gets this, even though some Geeks do not.

I agree with this. I do think that Gunn really needs to stop talking too much though. I can’t blame anyone being confused at his latest Instagram reply making the rounds, despite being obvious to me that the DCEU isn’t part of the DCU, since Clooney isn’t the Batman that exists in the new continuity. He talks too much, and sometimes contradicts himself, even if involuntarily by not making things clear enough.

[ZattMurdock]

Huh. This would be inspired casting:

 

 

I actually think Nicholas Hoult’s rumors of actually aiming for Lex makes even more sense now. He does look like one of the Skaregard’s lost American brother.

[ddddeeee]

There's never been a role played by the Skarsgard boys that wouldn't have been better portrayed by their dad.

Edited June 26, 2023 by ddddeeee

[TMP]

Alexander Skarsgard would be an incredible Lex Luthor. I kind of wanted him for DCU Batman, but this would work even better. Bill would be a wet blanket as Lex, but I don't see him getting the role. Swamp Thing makes more sense for him if he's gonna be in a dc project

[ZattMurdock]

 

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With The Flash not proving to be the box office savior Warner Bros. was anticipating, the pressure on new DC Studios’ heads James Gunn and Peter Safran has increased exponentially.

And that, in turn, means increased weight on Superman: Legacy, the inaugural movie from Gunn and Safran. And it may not get any weightier than casting the right actor to play Clark Kent/Superman and his romantic and professional foil, Lois Lane.

 

Gunn, who is writing and directing the feature, held screen tests the weekend of June 17 on the Warners lot in Burbank and the process has been kept in a lead-lined box as Gunn shows the assembled cuts to a deciding committee of executives, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav among them. Despite the secrecy, some details have emerged even as the final choice has not.

 

Gunn, according to sources, assembled three actors and three actresses for Superman and Lane, respectively, and on Saturday, the first day of the testing, the actors were seen in predetermined pairs: Nicholas Hoult and Rachel Brosnahan; Tom Brittney and Phoebe Dynevor; and David Corenswet and Emma Mackey. They were given several scenes to film, in which the males were in makeup and wardrobe as Daily Planet reporter Kent while the females were plucky journalist Lane.

 

Then on Sunday, Hoult, Brittney and Corenswet did another series of screen tests, this time in costume as Superman. Interestingly, only Mackey was brought in that day to portray Lane opposite the actors.

 

Sources caution that just because Mackey segued into the second day does not mean she is the front-runner for Lane, although it may be hard not to have that interpretation.

The search for Superman is a complex one. In Gunn’s back-to-basics version, any choice has to be able to play the part of someone who is credibly a farmboy from Kansas, a reporter at a big city media outlet, and the Man of Steel, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

 

The search brings back memories of the testing for the lead in 2011’s infamous Green Lantern, in which actors had to play cocky pilot Hal Jordan and a mask-wearing space cop from the Green Lantern Corps. The casting came down to Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper but the lynchpin was the mask. Some inside the studio preferred Cooper but he fared poorly in the superhero costume tests. The same situation is very likely playing out on Superman.

 

Gunn had an assembled cut of the screen tests by Wednesday to show to Warners brass. A decision could come this week.

 

And once the decisions on Kent and Lane are made, Gunn will quickly pull the trigger on next wave. Sources say there is also a shortlist for villain Lex Luthor (siblings Alexander and Bill Skarsgard have been mention as being on it and it’s not clear whether Hoult, who was initially wanted for the part before deciding to try for Kent/Superman, would put himself in the running again.) There are also other heroes to cast, such as members of a supergroup named The Authority; part of the new storyline is Superman joining a world in which superheroes already exist.

 

I’m getting increasingly hyped for this. Avengers levels of hype, which is more than I felt for a DC project since forever.

[TheDude391]

3 hours ago, ZattMurdock said:

Like we talked about weeks ago. Glad to see the Rosenbaum’s James Gunn interview is starting to make the rounds. It’s an amazing in depth interview, more people interested on the DCU and the superhero genre in general should see it.

He just described The Flash there lol

[ZattMurdock]

I’m glad if this is true because I do think that from looks alone, they are the most perfect for the role when it comes to Clark and Lois. I trust Gunn with his casting of Luther too, and I still insist that Hoult should consider playing Luthor.

[XXR & Friends]

All good castings as far as I’m concerned, but in the end all that really matters is the script and directing. 

[Maggie]

7 minutes ago, ZattMurdock said:

I’m glad if this is true because I do think that from looks alone, they are the most perfect for the role when it comes to Clark and Lois. I trust Gunn with his casting of Luther too, and I still insist that Hoult should consider playing Luthor.

Wow This would be perfect casting. Bill>>>>Alexander

[ZattMurdock]

I mean Corenswet already even has fan art. And I’d be lying if I said I don’t see it:

 

 

 

And please Gunn, no trunks. Hell go with Grant Morrison’s New 52 take and make him use jeans instead over the trunks. Just don’t.

 

8 minutes ago, TheDude391 said:

He just described The Flash there lol

I mean, yeah lol.

[Maggie]

1 minute ago, ZattMurdock said:

I mean Corenswet already even has fan art. And I’d be lying if I said I don’t see it:

 

 

 

And please Gunn, no trunks. Hell go with Grant Morrison’s New 52 take and make him use jeans instead over the trunks. Just don’t.

 

I mean, yeah lol.

I gotta say he looks too much like Cavill