The suspense is already over: after several months of auditions and tests, James Gunn has chosen the interpreters of Clark Kent and Loïs Lane for his “Superman: Legacy”, a DC feature film scheduled for release on July 9, 2025 in France. .
It’s a bird ? Is it a plane? No, it’s the new Superman! And his name is David Corenswet. A few days before his 30th birthday, the actor seen in the series Hollywood and The Politician by Ryan Murphy triumphed over Nicholas Hoult and Tom Brittney, his main competitors for the role of the Man of Steel.
After several months of auditions and tests in a suit struck with the S, David Corenswet has therefore been chosen to succeed Henry Cavill, Brandon Routh and Christopher Reeves on the big screen. And his partner has also been found, with a little surprise in store.
While the latest rumors spoke of Emma Mackey as the only finalist for the role of Loïs Lane, it is ultimately Rachel Brosnahan who will play the famous journalist from the Daily Planet in the film directed by James Gunn and expected at home on 9 July 2025.
Netflix/Prime Video David Corenswet & Rachel Brosnahan
Revealed by House of Cards, the actress was above all the headliner of The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel, which lasted five seasons and earned her several awards including the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. And she succeeds Amy Adams, Kate Bosworth and Margot Kidder in the role.
Will David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan be featured in style (and in costume?) during San Diego Comic-Con next month? The convention would certainly have been the perfect theater for a revelation of this magnitude, but the presence of Warner is not yet confirmed.
And the threat of an actors’ strike led by the SAG-AFTRA union (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), which could take effect as early as midnight on June 30, has prompted the studio to speed things up to that everything is closed before.
A LESS GENERIC SUPERMAN?
Between the scriptwriters’ strike and that which the actors could lead, it is obviously not specified when the filming of Superman: Legacy will be able to begin. Nor if its release date will be maintained. But it will be the first brick of the new DC Universe that James Gunn is building with Peter Safran. And the director intends to dodge the current shortcomings of superhero films.
“We’ve gotten to this point where you’re like, ‘He’s a superhero, let’s make a movie about it!’ Then ‘Let’s do a sequel since the first one did pretty well'”laments James Gunn in the podcast Inside of You. “But they never say to themselves, ‘Why is this story special? What makes it different from others? What is its heart? Why is the character important? What makes the story quite different? to make people want to go see her at the cinema?'”
I like to see different stories, instead of seeing the same one told over and over again
“People have gotten lazy, there’s a lot of ‘bim, bam, boom’ in these movies and I watch third acts of superhero movies and don’t feel there’s a reason these things are happening. … I don’t care about the characters. They’ve become too generic.”
“I like very serious superhero films, and very comical ones as well. I like those where it’s about solving a murder, but with superheroes. I like to see different stories, instead of seeing the same story told over and over.” In what register will his Superman: Legacy be located, which he announced as more optimistic than Man of Steel? Answer, at the latest, in two years.