James Gunn took to Twitter to formally announce that he’ll be directing Superman: Legacy which can unlock on July 11, 2025.

James can also be penning the script of the impending characteristic, which he started ahead of he assumed the location of co-head on the DC Studios in November. “It makes a speciality of Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage along with his human upbringing. He’s the embodiment of fact, justice and the American method. He’s kindness in an international that thinks that kindness is outdated,” Peter Safran, co-head of DC Studios, had mentioned previous, as in step with The Hollywood Reporter.

In a protracted thread on Twitter, James shared how he didn’t realise that the movie’s unlock date will coincide along with his father’s birthday, who he misplaced 3 years in the past. “It’s been a protracted highway so far. I used to be introduced Superman years in the past – I to begin with mentioned no as a result of I didn’t have some way in that felt distinctive and amusing and emotional that gave Superman the honour he deserved,” he wrote.

He persisted that alternatively rather less than a 12 months in the past, he may just see “some way in” which might centre at the Superman’s heritage and in the end selected to put in writing the script. Whilst he was once to begin with hesitant to direct, Peter had coerced him into doing it. “Simply because I write one thing doesn’t imply I believe it in my bones, visually and emotionally, sufficient to spend over two years directing it, particularly now not one thing of this magnitude. However, the lengthy and the quick of it’s, I like this script, and I’m extremely excited as we commence this adventure,” James wrote.

Then again it’s to be famous that Superman may not be performed by way of Henry Cavill who portrayed the nature in Guy of Metal, Batman v Superman: Break of day of Justice and Justice League.