Hollywood: James Gunn is filming a new “Superman” movie.

Filmmaker James Gunn (57, “Suicide Squad”) thanked everyone involved after filming on his new movie “Superman” ended. The actors and the crew shared both struggles and funny moments, emotions, ideas and magic with each other on the set – he is “forever grateful” for that, the director wrote on Instagram and in the first week of filming on the Spitsbergen islands in northern Norway. (Svalbard). The cinema release is scheduled for July 2025.

Gunn is responsible for a new “Man of Steel”: David Corenswet (31) dons the legendary blue and red suit for the first time. The American actor, who starred in TV series such as “The Politician” and “Hollywood”, replaces Briton Henry Cavill, who played the DC hero in “Man of Steel” (2013). , “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” (2016) and “Justice League” (2017). Rachel Brosnahan (“House of Cards”) becomes Superman’s girlfriend Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult appears as his enemy Lex Luthor.

The new episode will be dedicated to the origin of the superhero, and his parents send him to Earth from the planet Krypton. There he is found with a childless couple in the US state of Kansas and he grows up as Clark Kent. Before Corenswet and Cahill, Christopher Reeve and Brandon Routh appeared on the big screen in the long history of Superman adaptations.

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