Gunn’s Superman Has To Compete With 3 Other Versions (Not Just Snyder’s)

James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy, DC’s Superman reboot, has to compete with three other Superman iterations, not just Zack Snyder’s version. The first DC Studios project to be announced, Superman: Legacy will be written and directed by James Gunn, serving as the first movie entry in the new DC Universe. Who will play Superman in Superman: Legacy has yet to be revealed, and the film is set to arrive on July 11, 2025.
The upcoming DC Universe movies and shows reveal a bold, ambitious slate that could shape up an MCU-level franchise if successful. Still, as the virtual beginning of this new franchise, the pressure is all on Superman: Legacy. James Gunn’s Superman reboot will set the tone for the rest of DC’s Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters, and the film’s box office results will show whether a new interconnected DC Universe can work in the same way as the MCU, for example. Superman: Legacy has to be a solid starting point for the DC Universe, but it must also be a good Superman adaptation in its own right.
No Superman Movie Can Escape The Richard Donner Comparisons Richard Donner’s Superman (1978) will be 47 years old by the time Superman: Legacy premiers. Still, no matter how much time has passed since the first Superman movie, every live-action Superman adaptation is bound to be compared to the Donner films. Christopher Reeve brought Superman and Clark Kent to the big screen in a way that changed comic book adaptations forever, setting the stage for multiple other superhero films from Marvel and DC. More than ten years before Tim Burton and Michael Keaton made Batman into a movie star, Richard Donner and Christopher Reeve made audiences believe a person could fly.
Superman and Superman II nailed key aspects of the character, but most important, they manage to translate Superman’s mythos to the movie media. Donner’s Superman was not necessarily a copy of any particular comic book Superman run, and Christopher Reeve’s Superman is now often referred to as the ideal Superman version from which every other iteration should borrow at least something. Superman Returns tried to recreate what had worked for Superman and Superman II by ignoring the events of Superman III and IV, but the result was an uninspired film. Man of Steel, Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, went for a vastly different approach.
By distancing itself so much from the great Richard Donner Superman movies and diving into the sci-fi aspect of the character inspired by John Byrne’s Superman run, Man of Steel set itself a difficult challenge. Unlike Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, which sort of went back to the dark, gritty take of the Burton Batman films and added in more realism, Man of Steel had very little to do with Donner's Superman or Superman II. Henry Cavill’s Superman was compared to Christopher Reeve’s Superman from the start, even though they were supposed to be very different versions. Like Man of Steel, Superman: Legacy cannot escape the Donner Superman comparisons.
Zack Snyder’s Superman Is Still Fresh In Audiences’ Minds In addition to being compared to the classic Superman movies, James Gunn’s Superman reboot will have to compete with Zack Snyder’s Superman – even if indirectly. Henry Cavill is no longer Superman, and the DCEU that began with Snyder’s Man of Steel essentially ends in 2023. Still, only two years will separate the end of the DCEU and Superman: Legacy’s release date, meaning that Cavill’s Superman will still be fresh in mind by the time the reboot hits the screen. Though Cavill’s Superman status remained up in the air for quite a while after Justice League, the DCEU’s Superman has been the only cinematic version of the character since 2016.


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