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Screen Brief attended an exclusive Q&A with James Gunn at the Superman teaser press launch for Asia Pacific and Australia.
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What can we expect from the new Superman?
We can expect a Superman who is about the compassion of the human spirit, a Superman who is about kindness, love and compassion, while also being a very strong character. He is the best of humanity, even though he is an alien from outer space.
How does David Corenswet Superman differ from the previous versions of Superman?
I really loved working with David Corenswet. David both has that optimistic boy scout quality that Superman has, both on screen and in real life, frankly, and a real down to earth-ness.
Besides the fact that he’s this incredibly good-looking guy, he doesn’t have any sort of arrogance or ego in that way. But he is a really phenomenally trained actor who went to school at Juilliard and is just one of the best actors I’ve ever worked with. He’s incredibly nuanced, incredibly questioning all the time, figuring out how he can give the best performance.
And there’s never a take that I look at after the dailies, and think he isn’t fully authentically Superman. He is Superman every moment he’s in the movie. And even the stuff where I’m cutting together the best performance is possible, his worst take is still great.
In this film, Superman fights Lex Luthor. What kind of conflict structure will be depicted in their battles and relationship?
One of the things that was important to me was to make a Lex Luthor who was absolutely Superman’s equal. Maybe more that. You’ve got to be scared, and
this Lex is scary. And it’s not just because he is a bad guy—because he’s pretty bad—but he has his reasons for thinking what he thinks, which we get into. And it’s a lot of ideological things about what Superman represents versus what he represents as the world’s most intelligent man.