It’s just like starting over: James Gunn’s Superman
At this point, I think we best look at James Gunn’s DC Universe’s (DCU, as opposed to the DCEU under Zack Snyder) fresh start. I was wondering how he was going to take on Kal-el/Clark/Supes and wondered how much of the traditional Gunn irreverence and weirdness would be preserved or would it be one of those properties where we’d see an independent filmmaker have to struggle with what the suits want (think Sam Raimi in Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness ). I mean, hell, his Suicide Club is a thing of twisted beauty and to be sure, Warners seems less fretful over what a director is going to do than Marvel/Disney. That said, my eyebrow was highly arched when I found out Gunn himself would be directing Superman . And when one eyebrow got tired, I just moved over to the other one. In a nutshell, I enjoyed the hell out of it. I really, really did and if I felt like Cavill got shortchanged (irrespective of how I feel about the Snyderverse, Cavill struck me as...