New Superman flies onto big screen
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Whoopi Goldberg told 'Superman' stars David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan during their Thursday, July 10 appearance on The View that she "fell in love with [him] as Superman" while watching the new movie.
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Fiction Horizon on MSNDavid Zaslav Reportedly Shut Down Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Superman Film for Being “Too Woke”Warner Bros. had plans for a Superman movie that would’ve been very different from what fans are used to. Written by author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, the script imagined Superman as a Black hero living in the civil rights era.
When director James Gunn, steward of the high-flying new Superman reboot, was recently asked to list his favourite comic book movies, he singled out Richard Donner’s beautifully brash 1978 take on the Man of Steel – the film generally credited with firing the starter pistol for the modern cinematic superhero era.
The film, directed by DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn, kicks off the new DC Universe with the superhero. Superman sees David Corenswet ( Twisters, Pearl) as the title character and as Clark Kent, a reporter for The Daily Planet. The role has previously been played by Christopher Reeve, Henry Cavill, Brandon Routh and Tyler Hoechlin, among others.
James Gunn’s “Superman” — starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel — surprised even the most worn-out critics with its “charm.”
David Corenswet shares the key to balancing being ‘Superman’ by day and going into full dad mode by night: his wife, Julia Best Warner! 'Superman' flies into theaters on July 11.
Nicholas Hoult co-stars as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, who twists public opinion to turn the world against the superhero, while pitting him against metahuman adversaries.
For those who like their Man of Steel classically drawn, James Gunn's film will probably seem too irreverent and messy. But for anyone who found Zack Snyder's take painfully ponderous, this "Superman,