{"id":12345,"date":"2025-07-21T07:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12345\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:01:09","slug":"james-gunn-says-replacing-henry-cavill-as-superman-was-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12345\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn says replacing Henry Cavill as ‘Superman’ was “unfair”"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Gunn<\/a> has admitted that having to tell Henry Cavill<\/a> that he was being replaced as Superman<\/a> was \u201cunfair\u201d and and a \u201ctotal bummer\u201d.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0\u2018Superman\u2019 review: James Gunn puts some pep back in Clark Kent\u2019s pants<\/a><\/p>\n

Cavill played the DC<\/a> character in Man Of Steel, 2016\u2019s Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice<\/a>\u00a0and 2017\u2019s\u00a0Justice League<\/a>.\u00a0He also made a cameo at the end of\u00a0Black Adam in 2022 before Cavill confirmed he would no longer be involved in Gunn\u2019s vision of the DC Universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now speaking on the Happy Sad Confused<\/a> podcast, Gunn opened up about how he broke the news to Cavill that he wouldn\u2019t be returning to the role after he became the co-chairman and co-CEO of DC Studios alongside Peter Safran.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were dealing with trying to figure out if we could take the job at DC Studios, and we\u2019re talking to David Zaslav and all the legal people there, and figuring out what our deals would be,\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd the day our deal closed, all of a sudden they were announcing that Henry was back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Superman (David Corenswet) in \u2018Superman\u2019. CREDIT: Warner Bros. Entertainment<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m like, what is going on? Like, we know what the plan is, the plan was to come in and do Superman,\u201d he said, referring to the new 2025 film that sees David Corenswet take on the titular role.<\/p>\n

Gunn added: \u201cThat was really unfortunate, I\u2019m like, this poor guy. And so Peter [Safran] and I [knew] the right thing to do is to sit down with [Cavill] and talk to him. And we sat down, 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.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardians Of The Galaxy<\/a> director went on to say \u201cit was really unfair to him [Cavill] and was a total bummer,\u201d but there were outside influences who \u201cwanted to take on what they wanted to do at DC and were trying to force their way and it just was never a part of the equation.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if it would be \u201ctoo confusing\u201d to cast Cavill in another DCU<\/a> role, Gunn said: \u201cAbsolutely not. I talked to him about it on that day. I would love to put Henry in something.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments come after he previously denied sacking Cavill from the role and said he simply wasn\u2019t hired for future projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

More recently, Gunn discussed why he turned down the opportunity to direct Cavill in Man Of Steel 2 in 2018 as part of the previous DC timeline.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a three-star review<\/a>,\u00a0NME\u00a0wrote of the new Superman film: \u201cTo give Gunn his due, he crafts a world that\u2019s as close to the DC Comics Superman that we\u2019ve ever seen, with characters like the shapeshifting Metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan) adding real texture. It\u2019s a promising start-point to his plans for the DC Universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd while the good-versus-evil plot does little to push the envelope, the idea of Superman being an alien peacekeeper is surely going to stir up political controversies back in Gunn\u2019s MAGA-homeland. Mainly, though, just give us more Krypto \u2013 this canine really is super.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn has admitted that having to tell Henry Cavill that he was being replaced as Superman was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[947,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-12345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dc","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}