{"id":308725,"date":"2026-02-20T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308725\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:16:07","slug":"james-gunn-debunks-man-of-tomorrow-title-change-rumor-addresses-dcu-batman-paradise-lost-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308725\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Debunks MAN OF TOMORROW Title Change Rumor; Addresses DCU Batman, PARADISE LOST Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has returned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@jamesgunn\/replies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>, and he&#8217;s wasted no time in shooting down rumours about Man of Tomorrow, The Brave and the Bold, Paradise Lost, and more.<\/p>\n<p>As always, what Gunn doesn&#8217;t say is just as interesting as what he does; for example, the Superman director has remained silent on reports that Maxima will make her DCU debut in Man of Tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, Gunn started by debunking reports that the movie&#8217;s title has been changed to Superman: Man of Tomorrow. Explaining that Variety made a &#8220;mistake,&#8221; the filmmaker said, &#8220;I try to avoid the colons,&#8221; likely explaining why Superman: Legacy became plain old Superman.<\/p>\n<p>He also reminded fans that Man of Tomorrow &#8220;[is]\u00a0not just a Superman movie,&#8221; referring to Lex Luthor being the sequel&#8217;s co-lead.<\/p>\n<p>Gunn denied that he&#8217;s waiting for The Batman 3 to be released before moving forward with The Brave and the Bold, hitting back at claims he&#8217;s attempting to fast-track Matt Reeves&#8217; threequel to introduce the DCU&#8217;s Caped Crusader. &#8220;I&#8217;m not fast-tracking anything other than our scripts, currently getting ready to go into production,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The DC Studios co-CEO called the reports about him not wanting two Batmen on screen at the\u00a0same time &#8220;incorrect,&#8221; reiterating that we will get The Brave and the Bold before Reeves is finished with The Batman franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked if it&#8217;s true that Paradise Lost has been shelved, the frustrated filmmaker declared, &#8220;Definitely not. Jesus, I go on Threads for the first time in weeks and it&#8217;s just one insanely wrong thing after the other. What is going on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taking a break from debunking rumours for a moment, Gunn said of Man of Tomorrow, &#8220;A couple months out and I&#8217;ve already storyboarded almost the entire film. All the real work is now, before starting production. The more I do now, the less I have to do shooting and in post!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by James Gunn,\u00a0Man of Tomorrow\u00a0stars\u00a0David Corenswet as Clark Kent\/Superman, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Isabela Merced as Kendra Saunders\/Hawkgirl, and Frank Grillo as Rick Flag, Sr. We recently learned that\u00a0Lars Eidinger will play the movie&#8217;s big bad, Brainiac.<\/p>\n<p>Several actors and characters are rumoured to appear, including Aaron Pierre&#8217;s John Stewart\/Green Lantern and John Cena&#8217;s Peacemaker.<\/p>\n<p>Man of Tomorrow\u00a0arrives in theaters on\u00a0July 9, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has returned to Threads, and he&#8217;s wasted no time in shooting down rumours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4204,16179,93,61,60,4208,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-308725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-dc-studios","9":"tag-dcu","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-james-gunn","14":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}