James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy is just not occurring.
That’s as a result of the film — which is formally in manufacturing as of in the present day, February 29 — now has a brand new title. Any longer, it’s simply Superman.
Gunn posted a photograph to his Instagram account revealing the information, writing “overjoyed to be asserting the beginning of principal pictures on SUPERMAN in the present day, February 29, which simply so occurs to be – coincidentally and unplanned – Superman’s birthday.”
“Once I completed the primary draft of the script, I referred to as the movie Superman: Legacy,” he added. “ By the point I locked the ultimate draft, it was clear the title was SUPERMAN.”
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Gunn’s submit features a close-up of the brand new Superman defend, which resembles the received worn by the Man of Metal within the ’90s comedian sequence Kingdom Come, with that comedian’s black and crimson coloration scheme subbed out for the character’s extra conventional yellow and crimson.
In that sequence, set in a darkish alternate future, a brand new era of heroes proves ill-equipped to guard the world, resulting in the older members of the Justice League — together with Superman — to return from retirement to confront them. Though Kingdom Come has by no means been tailored to a movie, the model of Superman performed by Brandon Routh within the Arrowverse’s “Disaster on Infinite Earths” crossover wore a model of that very same Superman uniform. (Routh, after all, beforehand performed the Man of Metal in 2006’s Superman Returns.)
Superman (not Superman: Legacy) is at the moment scheduled to open in theaters on July 11, 2025. It’s meant to be the primary movie in a model new DC Comics cinematic universe, overseen by Gunn.
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