It’s on. Now the Hollywood writers’ strike is finally over, reports are beginning to percolate about various long-awaited projects. Chief among them is James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy, which according to Variety is now due to begin shooting in spring 2024. That means we can expect to hear the main cast moving into position in the coming months. David Corenswet has already been hired to play a younger man of steel, while Rachel Brosnahan will pick up Lois Lane’s Pulitzer-winning pen.
But what about other stalwarts of Superman’s world such as Lex Luthor, Martha and Jonathan Kent, Daily Planet editor Perry White and perhaps even Jimmy Olsen? How Gunn handles these characters will define how Legacy reimagines Metropolis and Smallville, and hopefully fuels the growth of the new DC Universe. One of the reasons fans initially gave Zack Snyder’s DCEU the time of day was that 2013’s Man of Steel offered a genuinely enticing vision of the most important superhero in the DC pantheon. Gunn now needs to repeat that trick, while avoiding the obvious failings of his predecessor when expanding into a spiderwebbed tapestry of interconnected superhero films.
