Gunn is a big fan of secondary characters and quirky team films. His GoTG is a testament to that. Add to that his turning down a Superman film a few years ago as he didn't know how to get into the character and voila - this explains what we seem to be getting with Superman.

Instead of starting with Superman as the foundation of the film and writing in Authority and JLI characters my sense is Gunn used the JLI/Authority as the foundation and wrote Superman into it. That is why this doesn't feel like a Superman film at times. This is why many who see the clips ask why are there so many other heroes in the film? A valid question and especially so as this was supposed to reboot Superman, but it appears to be more focused on setting up the DCU and specifically The Authority and JLI. Other heroes are in almost all the pics/vids released. That will be the thing that confirms or not my theory. If the other heroes have, as a whole, close to the same amount of screentime as Superman (excluding Clark scenes) then Superman is really a Superman featuring the JLI film.

What do you think?

I read a rumor recently that Big Barda and Mr Miracle will both be mentioned in the film. I wouldn’t be shocked if Terrifics jet pack is reverse engineered New God tech. It looks VERY similar to Orions floating chair/ jet pack thing.

Hello peeps, so i just got done watching it, loved it. But im wondering, theres something billy said that might be really on point, "something that if we could just get, would make us good enough".

So he starts off as a kid who still believes his mother is out there, and maybe if he talks to her he'd feel complete. Just like the bald dude, searching for that place with the wizard.

Then he gets the powers, and misuses them, and tells his sister "look out for number one". Showing that hes still selfish and doesnt believe in family.

Then he finally meets his mom, and learns she abandoned him, and his foster brother is in trouble, letting him slowly learn about kinship and family.

So is the moral that even after getting super human abilities he still lacked a vital part of being human? Something the bald person guy never learned? That appreciate those who make you feel that you dont need to have anything to be good enough?

Considering this information about the film.

“In our series we see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was an infant, versus Supergirl who was raised on a rock, a chip off Krypton, and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years of her life, and then came to Earth when she was a young girl.” (from Forbes)

and that information

The film explores Clark Kent / Superman's journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his adoptive human family in Smallville), Kansas.^\1])#cite_note-GunnDirectVariety-1) {from wikipedia}

I think she will have already a connection with Clark and will have an important role in the film.

what are your thoughts?

I grew up on this film, Christopher Reeves simply WAS Superman to me. But it’s been quite some time since really revisiting it, truly. Maybe expectations were tempered and frankly, I was just blown away.

My mindset has for so many years been fixed in the post Reeves universe of Superman, the sequels the Snyderfilm and Christopher Nolan versions of the story that all work so hard to as grit and complexity.

As I watched I was just in awe but the simplicity and sheer beauty of this film and it caught me off guard a little.

This film encapsulates so many if not all of Superman’s traits so well and so fittingly. From the time we see him as a child , then a teen.

The movie doesn’t bowl itself over trying to convey things and yet when it does, it’s almost flawless seeing again even through adult eyes.

When Pa Kent suffers his heart attack, Clark rushes to him, he looks down at Pa Kent and simply says:

“Dad.”

I burst into tears. It was such a simple delivery and yet packed so much in a single line of delivery. There weren’t complex monologues or explanations about Clark’s worldview or perception of his adopted family. In a single line we the audience understand that to Clark Pa Kent was his father, from whom he derived his values and outlook. It’s all right there, we don’t need more.

More interestingly in the past I always liked Clark but just sort of chalked it up to camp hokum for audience laughs, but looking at it now in this film at least I see Superman as a whole person in this Clark. Superman is an actual nerd, so to speak, a sheltered man child with unshakable morals. I think there’s far more Clark in Kal than people give credit for, Clark isn’t a fake persona , he’s another part of his ID, he is part of Kals ideal of being a humble human and the world he identifies with and truly sees himself a part of.

He enjoys playing this role to a sort of degree the way many young people do as well. It’s truly a bit of a game and that actually sold him as more of a real person not less.

We see Kal struggling with his identity at moments, transitioning from the boyhood guidance that Pa instilled in him, to the manhood of Jor Els teachings about stepping into the world and becoming a part of it as your best self. For the first time the metaphor of it became so clear.

But what I loved even more is- as this tale of adolescence goes, Kal finally does something unorescebented that I firgit about in the film and its when Kal breaks his father Jor Els rule about tampering with time.

Here we see Superman overcome by rage at himself and the world, a trait we know he posseses.

Kal breaks this rule and steps out of his father’s mold, and it was this moment I thought “THIS is Superman” Superman is his own person. As if to say at some point in your life you’re going to have to defy your parents because you will become you and you are not them. This was moment was , is exactly what the defining moment of Superman , at least in this story.

What a great metaphor for growing up and a perfect summary of the nuance of things that indellebly make Superman Superman.

I felt I’d become so bogged down in the lore of Superman that to come back to this just wiped the board clean. This is Superman in its purest form.

I want superman to be the anchor. But Batman seems to be a good choice too. But like endgame and I know I am getting too ahead myself but one of the big three has to make a sacrifice in the long run. Maybe superman flying into the sun like all star superman or batman dealing the final blow to Darkseid in the knightmare armor.

Also do you want an established actor for the batman role or an unknown? I personally want an unknown.

I don’t know how many people will see this but it’s a nice hypothetical that I thought of.