New Superman Movie Directed By James Gunn

A new trailer for the upcoming Superman movie just dropped and it looks amaze-balls from what I've seen. Directed by James Gunn who you may know from all three Guardians of the Galaxy movies, which he directed as well as The Suicide Squad.

The movie opens July 11, 2025 and will be available in IMAX and stars David Corenswet as the man of steel (and Clark Kent, natch) and I have to say I'm liking the visual aspect of Gunn's version of Superman. Not the staid, kinda static look we usually seem to get but a hectic, herky-jerky, manic movement action star.

The action parts in the trailer roped me in and crushed the rather stoic, slow-moving expectation I had and Corenswet has the look for the roll.

But you're not on this blog post just to read me fanboying, so take a peek for yourself.

Loving the action scenes and odd, off-kilter perspectives which sort of play up Superman's strength and innate power. Plus we get a deeper reveal of arch super villain, Lex Luther, played with a mercurial energy by Nicholas Hoult and wasn't that Nathan Fillion on that screen for a hot second?

The Luther character seems to exude almost a gleeful malice in this, threatening everyone Superman ever knew, from his Kent foster parents to Lois Lane and beyond. Not going to lie, that spin-a-rama scene where he toasts multiple bad guys with his heat vision looks epic. A lot to take in, in one short 2 minute trailer.

Want some more? Here's the first trailer (released May 14th 2025).

In this one, we get to see more of his initial steps in his relationship with Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) as she interviews this new super powered enigma that just saved Metropolis. Also we see Krypto, his super dog. And a bit of Lex Luther, but the other one has more of the action and fleshes Luther out more, character-wise.

Like I mentioned at the start, this is a James Gunn joint, from top to bottom really. Not only does Gunn direct, he wrote the screenplay, he's involved in producing the film and he's a Big Kahuna at DC Studios as one of the two CEOs (along with Peter Safran, so Gunn's wearing a lot of hats on this one.

Just have to wait until mid-July to sit down in the theater to see it.