DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

[TREK_GOD_1]

Maybe that budget includes hidden figures that may not go directly to production, but rather things like promotion?

Usually, when media reports on a film's budget, they're likely talking about the production budget alone, not the marketing budget. That said, if this movie's costing $364 million, one can only imagine what the marketing budget will be for the film that's supposed to reboot a film universe. Its an understatement to say there's much riding on this movie.

 

[Set Harth]

Maybe that budget includes hidden figures

But that only cost 25 million!

 

[Captaindemotion]

I can’t find an official link but there are lots of accounts on Twitter claiming that Superman Legacy is now just called Superman. A glimpse of a costume is doing the rounds too.

edit: yes, it’s definitely official
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/...e-james-gunn-first-day-of-filming-1235927037/

 

[Tuskin38]

 

[Tuskin38]

Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill will voice Batman and the Joker in the Animated COIE Part 3

https://www.ign.com/articles/mark-h...stice-league-crisis-on-infinite-earths-part-3

Well at least Conroy's final Batman role won't be that shitty Suicide Squad game.

 

[The Realist]

More from Gunn:

When I finished the first draft of the script, I called the film Superman: Legacy. By the time I locked the final draft, it was clear the title was SUPERMAN. Making our way to you July 2025. Happy Birthday, Clark! UpUpAndAway

https://www.threads.net/@jamesgunn

Kinda cool that the official title is simply Superman, which was also the actual onscreen title of Donner's classic -- only marketing material and such dubbed it Superman: The Movie.

From what little we can see of the costume, I like it fine -- I'd personally prefer a more traditional "S," but the yellow is nice. I suppose the modern basketball texturing was inevitable, since apparently the universe would collapse and swallow itself if Superman or any other superhero ever wore smooth fabric in live-action again (at least for the major hero suit -- they went smooth for Hoechlin's Fleischer suit on S&L, and it looked much better than the heavily-textured ones they've given him in the show's present-day).

But as I've said many times, while I'll certainly have opinions on costuming and such, ultimately that kind of thing matters much, much less to me than character, performance, story, theme, tone, romance, humor ... the things that, to me, make a film live and breathe and sing. And I really can't wait to see what Gunn brings to the screen for my favorite characters in Superman '25.

 

[JD]

I'm curious how they're going to differentiate it from the first Donner/Reeve movie, will be Superman '78 and Superman '24?

 

[Noname Given]

Maybe that budget includes hidden figures that may not go directly to production, but rather things like promotion?

Or past production costs for Superman films that never made it out of 'development hell'.

(Still it's surprising IF that's the production budget as they seem to be setting themselves up to fail out of the gate as it's a HUGE Box Office hurdle to clear. Again looks like someone at WB just thinks "If it's Superman, EVERYONE will come/pay to see it in a theatre."

 

[wayoung]

Or past production costs for Superman films that never made it out of 'development hell'.

That is a strong possibility. Inflates the budget for bigger tax credits and less profit on the books for payouts.

 

[Christopher]

Kinda cool that the official title is simply Superman, which was also the actual onscreen title of Donner's classic -- only marketing material and such dubbed it Superman: The Movie.

Whereas I find it annoying when two films have the same title. I like titles that are individual and relevant to the specific story.

As far as onscreen titles go, I've always found it interesting that neither the 1988 Ruby-Spears Superman animated series nor Bruce Timm's Superman: TAS actually showed the title "Superman" in its main title sequence, just using the Superman logo (although the former did use the classic voiceover narration and thus had the name spoken aloud several times). For that matter, Batman: TAS also had a main title sequence without written text, and the title card of Batman Forever, IIRC, just had "Forever" over the Batman logo. It's as if the Superman and Batman logos were being used as pictographs for the names themselves.

 

[Tuskin38]

nor Bruce Timm's Superman: TAS actually showed the title "Superman" in its main title sequence

I never noticed that

 

[The Realist]

I think calling it simply Superman suggests a desire to make the film as defining for the character in this century as Donner's masterpiece was in the last. Here's hoping Gunn can pull it off.

 

[Samurai8472]

Potential set photo of David Corenswet in Superman costume

 

[wayoung]

I'm curious if he has the same "no PEDs" clause in his contact Henry Cavill had.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Potential set photo of David Corenswet in Superman costume

 

[The Realist]

Potential set photo of David Corenswet in Superman costume

Gunn already debunked this.

 

[Tosk]

Gunn already debunked this.

Good, because my first reaction to it was that it was a photoshop/A.I. combo job. Just seems off somehow.

 

[The Realist]

Comics artist Clay Mann (THE definitive modern Lois Lane artist, IMO) posted this tonight on his Twitter:

It's a reworking of this older piece, replacing the original S-shield with Gunn's newly revealed version (as well as changing the TV image, obviously):

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Whereas I find it annoying when two films have the same title. I like titles that are individual and relevant to the specific story.

It's not as if the 1978 film staked out anything intrinsically unique to it with its title, however appropriate it was to the epic classic; therefore a following artist should not feel that the title's off limits. Simply call the first one Superman (1978), problem solved.

 

[The Realist]

Here's a really delightful video Rachel Brosnahan just posted:

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Apparently, she captioned the original TikTok version of the clip, "A supervillain, a journalist and an alien walk into a bar .…"

(Thanks to M'Sharak for teaching me how to embed YouTube "Shorts" a while back.)