16 h. ago Superman is super woke? How politics play into the new man of steel

The right has already branded the new DC tentpole too woke after its director called the character an immigrant, but just what role do real-world issues play in the film?Superman Woke! Variations on that headline splashed across all manner of non-Daily Planet websites this week in advance of a new Superman movie reboot, specifically the comments of writer-director James Gunn, who casually characterized the character as an immigrant and, as such, telling the “story of America” in an interview. This rankled rightwingers including the former TV Superman Dean Cain, who acknowledged Superman as an immigrant but blanched at the idea of actively associating that as an American value, noting that “there have to be limits”.Meanwhile, the former Trump lackey Kellyanne Conway, now a Fox News host, characterized the movie she hasn’t seen as an ideological lecture, and added her supposed anger that the movie’s star, David Corenswet, elided the old “truth, justice and the American way” Superman s...

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18 h. ago James Gunn films ranked from dark hidden gem to 'action masterpiece'

The filmmaker has written and directed some huge hits

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23 h. ago Superman's American football collection drops as James Gunn film hits cinemas

James Gunn's Superman reboot has finally landed in cinemas, with David Corenswet starring as the eponymous Man of Steel

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28 h. ago Superman star defends his character’s bizarre haircut after fan outcry

The new James Gunn movie hit theaters in the US July 11

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37 h. ago 'Woke' Superman is slammed by Dean Cain who played the superhero on TV in right

The former TV Superman is fuming that James Gunn’s new Man of Steel might stand for kindness

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38 h. ago Sorry, Dean Cain – of course Superman is woke, he fights injustice

James Gunn’s latest Man of Steel has copped flak from some predictable quarters, but the truth is, superheroes have been subverting the powerful, sticking up for the underdogs, and punching moral cowardice since the 1930sDean Cain, you may have read, is very upset with the new Superman. The erstwhile Man of Steel, who played the last son of Krypton on TV in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997, thinks James Gunn has gone too far with his description of Kal-El as an “immigrant that came from other places and populated the country” in the new DC film.Speaking to TMZ, Cain pondered: “How woke is Hollywood going to make this character? How much is Disney going to change their Snow White? Why are they going to change these characters [to] exist for the times?” Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Superman fans left conflicted about controversial plot twist in new movie

‘I’m really not sure what James Gunn was thinking during that stuff’ said one disgruntled fan

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57 h. ago Superman’s huge Rotten Tomatoes score doesn’t match what critics are really saying

James Gunn’s reboot is flying high, but dig a little deeper and the truth about those reviews looks very different

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59 h. ago Superman star says new movie is 'too woke' and could make society 'fail'

Lois + Clark star Dean Cain has hit out at 'woke Hollywood' and warned that James Gunn's new Superman movie has to have limits and moving away from 'The American Way'

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64 h. ago Superman star David Corenswet reveals why director James Gunn told him to ‘shut up’ on set

Actor didn’t take director James Gunn’s bluntness ‘personally’

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66 h. ago David Corenswet's 'flawless' movies that prove he's right for Superman are currently streaming

David Corenswet is set to take the world by storm as Superman in James Gunn's new DC Universe reboot, but two of his movies are already available to stream

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4 d. ago Superman director called 'Superwoke' as he faces backlash for calling the Man of Steel an 'immigrant'

Gunn, 58, said that he felt the character - played by David Corenswet, 32, in the new movie - had a lot in common with immigrants who come to the America in search of a better life.

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4 d. ago From ‘Mistake by the Lake’ to Metropolis: Here are some of the most iconic Superman filming locations across Cleveland

To honor Cleveland’s legacy as the birthplace of Superman’s creators, director James Gunn transformed the city into Metropolis for his new movie

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4 d. ago Superman review – is it a bust? Is it a pain? James Gunn’s dim reboot is both

The Man of Steel – played with square-faced soullessness by David Corenswet – has an uninteresting crisis of confidence in Gunn’s cluttered, pointless franchise restarterHere is a film occupying the heartsinking Venn diagram overlap between franchise exhaustion and AI soullessness: a film fatally unconvinced of the reason for its own existence. We’d all hoped that writer-director James Gunn, who was in charge of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie series, might put some wind back beneath Superman’s wings – or in his cape, or under his boots, or at any rate somewhere near his costumed person. The Man of Steel needed a fresh start after his self-cancelling contest in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, and getting muddled together with a lot of other utility superheroes in Justice League a year later – though I will admit to enjoying the pure hubristic craziness of the lengthy Zack Snyder cut of that movie when it saw the light of day.But this? If it was to be a reboot then...

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4 d. ago James Gunn’s Superman reboot will make you believe in superhero movies again

David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult lead a movie that doesn’t just serve as a referendum for superhero films, but for the cinematic future of DC as a whole

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4 d. ago First Superman reviews as James Gunn's 'convoluted mess' leaves people divided

James Gunn's Superman has finally been seen by a select number of people in the media, and while some have praised the movie, others haven't been too kind

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4 d. ago Who needs kryptonite when the reviews are this bad? Woke Superman reboot is savaged in brutal early review as hard

The new film - directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as the fictional superhero, with Rachel Brosnahan as precocious reporter Lois Lane - will go on general release from July 11.

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4 d. ago James Gunn responds to criticism over ‘immigrant’ Superman: ‘It’s about kindness’

Online commentators have called director’s comments about forthcoming film too ‘woke’

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5 d. ago James Gunn names the three things he never wants to see in a superhero film again

‘We have watched a million movies with characters who don’t have their upbringing explained,’ complained the Superman director

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5 d. ago James Gunn confirms Superman is about an ‘immigrant’: ‘Yes, it’s about politics’

Superman will be released in cinemas on 11 July 2025

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