21 h. ago James Gunn explains ‘complicated’ reason behind Superman’s quick streaming release

‘There were a lot of things that are beyond our control,’ said the director

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42 h. ago James Gunn reveals which Suicide Squad star he wants to bring back

Robbie has played the Joker henchwoman in three DC films already

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6 d. ago James Gunn pushes back on popular character appearing in The Batman sequel

‘No one knows anything about The Batman 2,’ said the DC Studios co-CEO

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7 d. ago The more James Gunn’s Superman is a hit, the more the right will want its own Dean Cain of steel

The star of 90s TV series Lois & Clark and wannabe Ice agent has expressed his horror at Gunn’s ‘woke’ hero. Is there a market for Superman: Border Patrol? It’s almost impossible to divide superheroes along political lines. Captain America might seem like a patriotic, commie-bashing lunatic, as he was in the 1950s comics during the McCarthy era, until you remember that he has also spent much of his fictional career telling corrupt government agencies to shove it. And, in the Marvel Comic Universe, at least, he went on the run rather than sign up for an authoritarian superhero registry. Superman was once the square-jawed poster boy for US exceptionalism, cheerfully posing on propaganda comic covers urging readers to buy war bonds, but he’s also been written as a Kansas farm boy so suspicious of concentrated power that in one storyline he renounced his citizenship to avoid being used as a pawn of US foreign policy.Bar a few outliers – Iron Man cheerleading the military-industrial ...

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3 w. ago ‘Superman’ flexes its might in second weekend with $57.3 million

James Gunn’s “Superman” continues to top the box office charts in its second weekend in theaters

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3 w. ago What the culture war over Superman gets wrong | Noel Ransome

Rightwing commentators are furious over the superhero’s positioning as an immigrant. But his story was crafted to cushion uneaseWe’ve entered the era of the superhero movie as sermon. No longer content with saving the world, spandex saviors are now being used to explain, moralize and therapize it. And a being from Krypton has shown up once again in a debate about real life; about borders, race and who gets to belong. Superman. Of all symbols.I’ve read reactionary thinkpieces, rage-filled quote tweets and screeds about the legal status of a fictional alien – enough to lose count. This particular episode of American Fragility kicked off because James Gunn had the audacity to call Superman “the story of America”. An immigrant, by definition, as he was always meant to be.Noel Ransome is a Toronto-based freelance writer Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Superman director James Gunn reveals 'terrible' way Henry Cavill was fired from DC

Superman director James Gunn recalled the 'terrible' way Henry Cavill was fired from his role as iconic superhero, Clark Kent

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3 w. ago Superman director says Henry Cavill was fired from DC in ‘terrible’ way

‘It was really unfair to him,’ director and co-DC boss said

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4 w. ago Superman director speaks out about debate over whether film is about the war in Palestine

Superman director James Gunn has now weighed in on the debate on social media, which sees fan drawing parallels between the blockbuster and the Israel war on Palestine

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