James Gunn is shutting down a fan conspiracy concept that he all the time deliberate to take away Henry Cavill from the DCEU.
Amid the taking pictures 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 might be launched in 2025.
“We had been truly on the premiere social gathering 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] let you know what we’ve received for you subsequent?’ I stated, ‘No, he hasn’t stated.’ He seemed round like somebody was gonna be listening. We had 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 yr earlier than he and Peter Safran had 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 through the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 premiere social gathering.
Gunn went on to make clear the rumor that he all the time meant to interchange Cavill as Superman since he helmed The Suicide Squad.
“I don’t fairly perceive how that matches,” he shared on Threads. “Apart from the very fact I had no real interest in working DC till Peter determined to do it with me so he may do the exec stuff & I may give attention to artistic, after I was employed to put in writing 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 explicit conspiracy concept 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 contains Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, Sean Gunn, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Isabel Merced and Fillion.
