{"id":9447,"date":"2025-07-20T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9447\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:12:08","slug":"james-gunn-says-it-was-terrible-telling-henry-cavill-he-wasnt-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9447\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Says it Was Terrible Telling Henry Cavill He Wasn’t Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJames Gunn<\/a> is opening up about letting Henry Cavill<\/a> go from the DCU.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a recent appearance on the \u201cHappy Sad Confused<\/a>\u201d podcast, the \u201cSuperman<\/a>\u201d director explained that as his deal to take over DC Studios closed, it was announced that Cavill would reprise his role as the Man of Steel. However, according to Gunn, it was already on paper that he would helm a new Superman film with a new actor, which created an \u201cunfair\u201d situation for Cavill.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe day our [DC] deal closed, all of a sudden, they were announcing that Henry was back,\u201d Gunn said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, \u2018What is going on?\u2019 We know what the plan is. The plan was to come in and do \u2018Superman.\u2019 So it was really unfair to him and a total bummer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGunn added that the miscommunication was due to a sector of the studio trying to \u201cforce\u201d their own vision of DC, which was \u201cnever part of the equation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat was really unfortunate,\u201d Gunn continued. \u201cSo Peter and I [thought] the right thing to do was to sit down with [Cavill] and talk to him. And we sat down and we talked to him. He was an absolute gentleman, a great guy about it. He said, \u2018The only thing I ask is that I\u2019m able to reveal it myself as opposed to it coming from you guys.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked by host Josh Horowitz if it would be \u201ctoo confusing\u201d to cast Cavill in another DCU role, Gunn said, \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI talked to him about it on that day,\u201d Gunn added. \u201cI would love to put Henry in something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Cavill starred as the Man of Steel across three DC films from 2013 to 2017, David Corenswet took over the role for Gunn\u2019s DCU debut feature \u201cSuperman,\u201d which released July 11. Other cast members for that film include Nicholas Hoult (Lex Luthor), Rachel Brosnahan (Lois Lane), Skyler Gisondo (Jimmy Olsen), Anthony Carrigan (Metamorpho), Edi Gathegi (Mister Terrific), Nathan Fillon (Guy Gardner) and Isabela Merced (Hawkgirl).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn is opening up about letting Henry Cavill go from the DCU. During a recent appearance on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,7819,867,337,5769],"class_list":["post-9447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-henry-cavill","tag-james-gunn","tag-movies","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447","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=9447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}