James Gunn is shutting down a fan conspiracy idea that he all the time deliberate to take away Henry Cavill from the DCEU.
Amid the capturing of the brand new Superman movie and the second season of Peacemaker, Gunn finds time to reply fan inquiries on social media.
A fan shared a quote from Nathan Fillion about how he came upon he was forged as Inexperienced Lantern within the new DC movie, which will probably be launched in 2025.
“We have been really on the premiere celebration after Suicide Squad and he [Gunn] was in an enormous crowd of individuals,” Fillion stated in an interview with Collider. “…He goes, ‘Hey, did Peter [Safran] inform you what we’ve acquired for you subsequent?’ I stated, ‘No, he hasn’t stated.’ He seemed round like somebody was gonna be listening. We have been in a throng of individuals, however he leaned over and stated, ‘You’re gonna be Man Gardner.’”
DC followers took Fillion’s phrases as Gunn already engaged on the reboot of the DCEU for the reason that launch of The Suicide Squad in 2021, greater than a 12 months earlier than he and Peter Safran have been named co-CEOs of DC Studios in October 2022.
Nonetheless, Gunn clarified on Threads that Fillion misspoke, which meant he came upon about his Inexperienced Lantern casting in the course of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 premiere celebration.
Gunn went on to make clear the rumor that he all the time meant to switch Cavill as Superman since he helmed The Suicide Squad.
“I don’t fairly perceive how that matches,” he shared on Threads. “Except for the actual fact I had no real interest in operating DC till Peter determined to do it with me so he may do the exec stuff & I may concentrate on artistic, after I was employed to write down Superman it was all the time meant as & pitched as a brand new Superman story, so why would I lie about not planning that on the Squad premiere which might have amounted to the identical factor on the finish of the day? How does this specific conspiracy idea make sense?”
Amid the DC Studios government shakeup, Cavill reprised his function as Superman in an finish credit scene from 2022’s Black Adam. Nonetheless, when Gunn and Safran took over DC and deliberate to reboot the universe, they introduced they’d be recasting Superman.
David Corenswet was forged as the brand new Superman, with filming already underway. The movie additionally stars Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor and María Gabriela de Faría as The Engineer. The ensemble consists of Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, Sean Gunn, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Isabel Merced and Fillion.