Superman: Legacy is a movie more than two years away, so we really didn’t know exactly when we would learn who the new Supes in the relaunched DCU would be, but yesterday that news arrived. Viral fan favorite David Corenswet got the nod to play the new Man of Steel, while Rachel Brosnahan will portray Lois Lane. Fans are excited, and so are other stars like, Lili Reinhart and Glen Powell, who are showing their support for the new first couple of the DC film universe.
The news hit yesterday afternoon that Corenswet and Brosnahan had been chosen by James Gunn, who is both the writer and director of the upcoming Superman: Legacy as well as one of the two heads of DC Studios, tasked with building a brand new cinematic universe out of the ashes of what came before. Gunn has never been shy about telling the world when movie news gets their information wrong, so for many, it wasn’t true until Gunn said it was and he appeared on Twitter and said it was:
