James Gunn Reveals the Surprising Jor-El Casting for 'Superman'
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey gets its first poster. Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton are set up for a new sea monster drama at Netflix. Plus, filming has wrapped on the final season of The Boys. Spoilers now!
Deadline reports David Dastmalchian has been cast as M. Bison in Legendary’s live-action Street Fighter movie.
A new poster has been released for Chris Nolan’s Greek epic.
A film by Christopher Nolan. Shot entirely with IMAX film cameras. In theaters 7 17 26. #TheOdysseyMovie pic.twitter.com/lizYuc3Mu7
— odysseymovie (@odysseymovie) July 2, 2025
During a recent interview with Jake’s Takes (via Comic Book), James Gunn revealed Bradley Cooper plays Jor-El in Superman.
Really, Bradley’s just doing me a favor. He’s a friend. We’ve stayed in close contact since the Guardians movies, and I admire him greatly as an actor and as a director.
I just said, ‘Hey, will you do me a favor? Come down, go to England, we’re going to shoot you in a 3D environment, make a hologram of you, and you can play Jor-El. He was like, ‘Okay.’
During another recent interview with Screen Rant, James Gunn also stated his Superman is “about a person who thinks of himself in a certain way, finds out that isn’t true, and has to recontextualize who he is in the face of that.”
This is about his interior life. At the core of the story – it’s surrounded by pyrotechnics and flying dogs and robots – but at the core of the story it’s about a person who thinks of himself in a certain way, finds out that isn’t true, and has to recontextualize who he is in the face of that. That isn’t really what your normal Superman story is, nor any hero’s story, for the most part. So I think that’s a difference. He’s more vulnerable in that way.
And then physically – I mean, listen, he’s fighting an equal and opposite force. So, in some ways, it’s no different than when Superman was fighting the bad guys in Superman II, in Donner’s film.
But we do see him bleed, which is different. He can’t make the world go backwards in time through spinning around it. So I kind of took a Superman that was a mix of different Supermans throughout the comics in terms of his power set.
Warner Bros. has released a trailer for its new Cat in the Hat movie starring the voices of Bill Hader, Xochitl Gomez, Matt Berry, Quinta Brunson, Paula Pell, Tiago Martinez, Giancarlo Esposito, America Ferrera, Bowen Yang, and Tituss Burgess.
Charlize Theron, Uma Thurman and Kiki Layne recap the events of the first Old Guard ahead of the sequel releasing today on Netflix.
According to The Playlist, Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton will star alongside Josh Hartnett in upcoming, currently untitled limited series at Netflix about a sea monster terrorizing Newfoundland.
Finally, filming has officially wrapped on the final season of The Boys, according to Eric Kripke on Twitter.
This is the last time I'll ever be on this set. It'll be torn down soon. It's bittersweet, but my primary feeling is gratitude. To #TheBoys family: I love you. To the fans: can't wait for you to see the grand finale. That's a wrap. (Pic by @karenfukuhara). @theboystv @primevideo pic.twitter.com/gSGVJAdR08
— Eric Kripke (@therealKripke) July 2, 2025
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