DC Studios CEO James Gunn has confirmed that a scene from one of the Superman trailers wasn’t included in the final cut of the upcoming DC Universe movie, currently slated to arrive in theaters on July 11, 2025.
“In his signature style, James Gunn takes on the original superhero in the newly imagined DC universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who’s driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind,” reads the synopsis.
What scene was cut from the Superman movie?
During a recent interview with EW, Gunn was asked about his thoughts regarding the heavily criticized scene from a Superman trailer that featured an awkward-looking CGI shot of David Corenswet’s Man of Steel flying. The filmmaker assured fans that the scene wasn’t included in the final cut of the DCU movie because he also didn’t love the shot. He explained that it was only featured in one of the TV spots because he sometimes forgets to look closely at commercials for his projects.
“No, I don’t think it was so much. It was a TV commercial and it wasn’t a finished visual effects shot. So the part of him flying, it was a photograph of his face and him flying,” Gunn shared. “It was a photograph of a drone flying in front of an actual background. So all the pieces were real, but it was incorporated in kind of a funky way. I didn’t love the shot, so it’s not even the shot that’s in the movie. Sometimes I’m pretty strict about when I’m going through a trailer and looking at each of the shots, but sometimes the commercials, I forget to look at this closely. So that one kind of got by me.”
Superman is written and directed by Gunn based on the DC characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The ensemble cast includes David Corenswet as Superman/Clark Kent, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor. Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, Wendell Pierce as Perry White, Mikaela Hoover as Cat Grant, Beck Bennett as Steve Lombard, María Gabriela de Faría as The Engineer, Sara Sampaio as Eve Teshmacher, Anthony Carrigan as Metarmorpho, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Edi Gathegi, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern, Pruitt Taylor Vince as Jonathan Kent, and Neva Howell as Martha Kent, along with Alan Tudyk, Michael Rooker, and Grace Chan.
Originally reported by Maggia Dela Paz on SuperHeroHype.
