Threads<\/a> to decry the report as “shoddy [and]\u00a0incorrect,” the DC Studios co-CEO also described the story as\u00a0“bullshit,” and adds,\u00a0“I’ve been friends with Adria a long time since I cast her in the Belko Experiment. I’m a fan of both Marisa and Ella, but I’ve never met either of them. Crazy.”<\/p>\n
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It’s rare for the Hollywood trades (Deadline, Variety, and The Wrap) to share incorrect information, so we now await their response.<\/p>\n
Regardless, Maxima’s powers include superhuman strength, durability, speed, flight, telekinesis, telepathy, mind control, energy projection, force fields, and teleportation. After Superman’s big reveal that Kal-El was sent to Earth to form a harem and breed a superpowered master race, perhaps Gunn intends to expand on that with this debut?<\/p>\n
During the “Panic in the Sky” storyline,\u00a0a 1992 crossover event in the four monthly\u00a0Superman\u00a0comic book series (featuring the hero leading Earth’s superheroes against an alien invasion led by Brainiac), Maxima fought alongside\u00a0Brainiac. That came after he conquered\u00a0Almerac and coerced her into helping him.<\/p>\n
Maxima is an interesting pick on Gunn’s part, but the filmmaker has shown he has an interest in relatively obscure heroes and villains from the comics. The character was previously portrayed by ex-professional wrestler\u00a0Eve Torres Gracie in The CW’s\u00a0Supergirl.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0Man of Tomorrow, Superman will be forced to team up with Lex Luthor to battle Brainiac, a threat not just to Metropolis but the entire world.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Written and directed by James Gunn, the movie stars\u00a0David Corenswet as Clark Kent\/Superman, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Isabela Merced as Kendra Saunders\/Hawkgirl, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag, Sr.,\u00a0Sara Sampaio as Eve Teschmacher, Lars Eidinger as Brainiac, and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart.<\/p>\n
Man of Tomorrow\u00a0arrives in theaters on\u00a0July 9, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Deadline has hit back at Gunn, writing, “Deadline went through its normal editorial process in the newsgathering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,67308],"class_list":["post-590768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-man-of-tomorrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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