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James Gunn’s Superman movie has officially landed its two leads

We have a new Superman and Lois Lane for a new movie from director James Gunn.

Filmmaker James Gunn is ready to fly high with his picks for Superman and Lois Lane.

The Guardians of the Galaxy director has set actor David Corenswet to play Clark Kent/Superman in his upcoming Superman: Legacy, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Corenswet will be the fourth actor to portray the Man of Steel in a standalone film, following Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh and Henry Cavill.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actress Rachel Brosnahan will play Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane, long known as Kent’s romantic interest.

Gunn had been screen testing actors for some time now, with actors Nicholas Hoult and Tom Brittney also up for Superman and Phoebe Dynevor and Emma Mackey up for Lane.

The filmmaker confirmed the news on Tuesday of the castings.

Corenswet has primarily appeared on television with projects like HBO’s We Own This City and Netflix’s The Politician, House of Cards and Hollywood. He also appeared in the slasher film Pearl last fall and will appear in the 2024 Twister sequel, Twisters.

Brosnahan also appeared on House of Cards in a recurring role before her Emmy-winning breakout performance on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which just wrapped up its final season. She’s the fourth actress to portray Lane in a film, joining Margot Kidder, Kate Bosworth and Amy Adams.

Gunn took over DC’s film and television production output alongside producer Peter Safran, with the duo’s rebooted DC Universe kicking off theatrically with Superman: Legacy on July 11, 2025.

Per THR, the casting for the new Superman film will now move on to the hero’s archvillain, Lex Luthor, and to other heroes that are slated to appear.

And once the decisions on Kent and Lane are made, Gunn will quickly pull the trigger on the next wave. Sources say there is also a shortlist for villain Lex Luthor (siblings Alexander and Bill Skarsgard have been mentioned as being on it, and it’s not clear whether Hoult, who was initially wanted for the part before deciding to try for Kent/Superman, would put himself in the running again.) There are also other heroes to cast, such as members of a supergroup named the Authority (part of the new storyline is Superman joining a world in which superheroes already exist).

Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 concludes his tenure at Marvel after a decade of working with the studio, and he’ll also work on a second season of the Max series Peacemaker once Superman: Legacy is finished.

Yes, Peter Quill dropped the first [expletive] of the MCU in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Yes, Peter Quill dropped this major potty word in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

After 15 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally dropped a major swear word.

Actor Chris Pratt uttered the very first MCU f-bomb in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, making a major turn in what content is allowed in a Marvel film made by Disney.

The moment comes halfway through the film, with Pratt’s Peter Quill/Star-Lord tossing out an f-bomb in comedic frustration as he’s explaining to Nebula (Karen Gillan) how to open up a car door while on Counter-Earth.

Marvel films have included foul language before, but this latest Guardians of the Galaxy film has broken a barrier by including the harsher expletive.

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“That was not scripted, no,” Pratt told the Toronto Sun on if the f-bomb was in the script. “There’s a five or six-minute period of the film where we were trying to get a lot of laughs … I think [director James Gunn] told me to try saying that and I tried it and it made it in. But it’s not the first time I’ve tried to get an F word into the movies.”

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3: James Gunn leaves Marvel with a reminder of what the MCU could be

What We Learned from James Gunn’s DC Universe Announcement (Batman! Superman! Swamp Thing?!)

DC fans can rejoice that a new wave of film and television projects have been revealed.

After months of promising big changes, the DC universe has officially received its first official reset courtesy of filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran.

Gunn, a Marvel vet, came over to DC a few years ago to take on 2021’s The Suicide Squad and found a permanent home last fall as the comic book studio’s new film and television co-chief.

On Tuesday, Gunn made his grand reveal of the studio’s first steps in its new film and television plan. He led his announcement with a pretty honest assessment of how things have been going on the DC side of the fence for some time.

“As many of you know, DC has been disconnected in film and television for a long time,” Gunn said in the video. “It’s one of our jobs … to come in and make sure the [DC Universe] is connected in film, television, gaming and animation, that the characters are consistent, played by the same actors, and it works within one story.”

The first chapter of the “DCU” will reportedly be titled “Gods and Monsters.”

Gunn added that already established projects, like Matt Reeves’ The Batman universe and Todd Phillip’s Joker films, will get the branding of “DC Elseworlds,” meaning that they’ll veer away from the newly forming “DCU.”

Gunn teased a number of big DC projects and gave clarity on some others. Let’s break down below what the highlights were.