James Gunn’s DC Movieverse is really not off to a good start, is it?
The above behind the scenes, released for Superman Day, focuses more on James Gunn and an overview of his plans than on Superman or the plot of the former Superman: Legacy. Some critics are even speculating that he dropped “Legacy” from the title just so we have to call it “James Gunn’s Superman” to tell it apart from every other Superman project. The serials are technically the only other project called Superman (or at least the first serial) while the 1988 cartoon from Ruby-Spears gets called Ruby Spears Superman for the same reason. Given that he put himself into the intro for Creature Commandos, replaced Krypto’s breed with that of his own dog, and the backstage video for Superman Day not really being about Superman or the movie directly, then throw in the news that test screenings haven’t done well and led to reshoots–a concept Marvel Studios has ruined by overusing what used to be a minor problem with movies in the past–and there is already low expectations.
However, I haven’t seen any real optimism killers, not even the altered costume, until a supposed leak by X-Twitter leak dropper My Time To Shine Hello, who put his latest leak about the movie’s plot behind subscription and I’m not spending money on that. So I’ll grab both Cosmic Book News and Bounding Into Comics and get the transcript that way. It’s not good news. It also might not be real. I’m not aware of his reputation with these leaks and the whole thing sounds really silly…but this is a guy with a strange sense of humor and we already got incel remakes of the Sons Of Themyscira in Creature Commandos so it could be accurate. I just don’t want to treat a rumor as fact, but since everyone else is buzzing about this I might as well add my two cents, if only as a warning not to do stuff like Superman versus cancel culture! Which might sound good until you remember a bit of Gunn’s past.
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