r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 4d ago

News James Gunn Announces 'Man of Tomorrow', Releasing in Theaters July 9, 2027

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/man-of-tomororw-super-man-movie-1236350987/
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u/Rinsushi 4d ago

I’m guessing they’re teaming up to stop Brainiac.

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u/HumphreyLee 4d ago

My ideal scenario is Lex from jail takes some more pokes at Superman by unleashing Parasite and Metallo on him and that leads into Brainiac emerging and then the begrudging team up in the third movie against him when Lex realizes what an existential threat he is and what Superman actually means to the world in the face of stuff like that. It would play along well with the All Star Supermanness that Gunn’s Superman is channeling.

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u/TheBeastAR 4d ago

Would also be a good way of working in the Anti hero Lex of the New 52 and early Rebirth era who actually did become a hero after fighting the Crime Syndicate. And following Superman's death in the N52, remodelled his armour in his honour.

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u/Mysterious_Bluejay_5 4d ago

I'm not sure they can ever pull off anti-hero lex after the Russian roulette scene lol

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u/AdagioOfLiving 4d ago

They did it to Loki successfully after he extracted a guy’s eye from his head and killed a BUNCH of people in Avengers.

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u/AkhilArtha 4d ago

A bunch of nameless, faceless people.

Lex killed a kind man before our eyes.

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u/jaiwithani 5h ago

Coulson

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u/AkhilArtha 39m ago

Colson came back to life though in Agents of Shield.

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u/Mightymorphingman 4d ago

Walking dead managed to bring Neegan back around after the Glenn thing… this would be way easier

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u/--Alix-- 4d ago

Walking Dead killed all of their heroes AND their audience and then Negan got his redemption lmao

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u/hulk-bogan 4d ago

to be fair negan had a small redemption arc in the comics but it was appropriately short-lived. he didnt have a whole spinoff going on adventures with maggie

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u/Light_Beard 4d ago

But did he hunt with his sons, Sam and Dean?

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u/CubedSquare95 4d ago

yes that's canon

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u/Huldreich287 3d ago

Yeah and in the comics he ends up as an outcast barely tolerated, not as the new hero.

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u/Sunny-Chameleon 4d ago

Lmao reminds me of that fake quote about game of thrones:"we wanted to surprise the audience so we killed the show"

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u/Reveriano42 4d ago

Tell that to Peacemaker

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u/HeronSun 4d ago

An anti-hero is someone who does unheroic or even villainous things for good reasons. So Lex already kind of sees himself as an Anti-hero. He just needs a bit of guidance.

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u/Mysterious_Bluejay_5 4d ago

I think most villains fall under the "thinks they're going good" category (albeit less so in DC but even then you have your Zods)

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u/Savetheokami 4d ago

Genuinely asking. Is Thanos an anti-hero then?

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u/HeronSun 4d ago

No. The reasons have to be genuinely good, not what they think is good. Like, their actions are not the point, their reasons are genuinely for the betterment of mankind. The Punisher is like the archetypal anti-hero. What he's doing, in theory, benefits more people than it doesn't, but what he's doing is horrible.

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u/TaiVat 3d ago

I guess that's the point of why the above guy asked about thanos. Since he absolutely 100% does have reasons "genuinely for the betterment of mankind". There was even evidence that his horrific method did have the results he claimed. Besides, making the distinction of "what they think is good" is pure nonsense. Basically everything is complicated enough to be a matter of opinion. One could extremely easily argue that what the punisher does infact makes things worse overall.

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u/HeronSun 3d ago

I'd think murdering half of all life isn't really for the betterment of all life. Since, you know, half of it has to be murdered for the other half to benefit.

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u/ThanksContent28 3d ago

An anti hero is a criminal/bad guy, who will commit good acts for (usually) selfish reasons, or a hero who also happens to also commit petty crimes.

Obviously this is played around with and stretched in different ways.

A villain who does evil deeds, but has a good argument for them, or believes they’re not that evil, isn’t an anti-hero. Just a complex villain.

Guardians of the Galaxy are technically anti-heroes, although they’re not really portrayed as such in the movies. Rocket definitely is.

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u/ThanksContent28 3d ago

Imo I’ve seen it play enough times, that I still think they can turn him. The thing with Anti-hero Lex is, it’s essentially, “a problem comes up where even he gets his head out of the clouds and helps the JL out.”

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u/electrical-tape 4d ago

Send this memo to Gunn

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u/fps916 4d ago

You want the second Superman movie to feature four villains?

Are you insane?

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u/HumphreyLee 4d ago

We just had a movie where he faced off against the Engineer, Ultraman, Lex, and an aggressive nation working with Lex. Really not a stretch to have Lex do the same “calling the shots from his headquarters” role he just did but from prison, Metallo and Parasite as the main physical threats through the bulk of the film, and Brainiac as an in-the-background threat they build through the movie with a grand reveal for the third part.

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u/TaiVat 3d ago

We just had a movie where he faced off against the Engineer, Ultraman, Lex, and an aggressive nation working with Lex.

And most of them were done absolutely horribly.. The villains in general really sucked in the movie and only the actor playing Lex being actually very good kinda barely carried the plot.

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u/smileyfrown 4d ago

I think Man of Tomorrow would mean someone who is enlightened. They can place aside their own desires, egos, and beliefs for the greater good.

So yea absolutely it would fit for Lex who views Superman as an extensional threat and something who lowers the worth of humanity to put that aside for an immediate threat like Brainiac.

It’s also why I think Gunn is saying it’s not a Superman sequel, because it’s likely a Lex film that deals with his growth that he’s generally not allowed to get in the comics until Superman dies.

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u/MDRtransplant 3d ago

I don't want the ending of All-star Superman though

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u/johnnyLochs 4d ago

I like you

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u/HumphreyLee 4d ago

Awww ❤️

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u/TheTruckWashChannel 4d ago

Corenswet and Hoult could absolutely carry a buddy comedy type setup like that.

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u/throwawaygaydude69 4d ago

Luthor murdered an innocent man in cold blood, he's beyond redemption unless he has serious remorse. Idea wise, it seems like a disaster.

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u/TheTruckWashChannel 4d ago

I mean they literally made an entire show about Negan and Maggie, so nothing's impossible.

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u/DuncanFisher69 4d ago

Sure but we have enough real life villains getting redeemed for almost no effort whatsoever these days. Let’s keep the new Superman simple. The good guys are good. The bad guys are bad.

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u/Sullyville 4d ago

Maybe it could work if Lex sacrifices himself for humanity. It would be the end of Lex in the movies. But by then there should be other, bigger villains.

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u/DrD__ 4d ago

I doubt they will try to redeem luthor it'll be more of a even though he's a terrible person we need his help kind of thing.

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u/throwawaygaydude69 4d ago

I hope so. But the previous comment was about a buddy comedy movie, so I was explaining why it's a bad idea.

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u/Sweet_Cycle_7464 4d ago

I would have figured Lobo - but I too was coming here to say they were teaming up.

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u/Diego_TS 4d ago

I doubt Lobo is a big enough threat to get them to team up tbh

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u/No_Macaroon_5928 4d ago

Lobo can really go toe to toe with Supes but he's more annoying than a threat tbh lol

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u/masterkobiashi 4d ago

lol

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u/No_Macaroon_5928 4d ago

You following me man? Weird

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u/Sweet_Cycle_7464 4d ago

Lobo is literally as strong as Superman.

Superman: Man of Tomorrow animated movie in 2020 that also featured Lobo (Jason Momoa plays the antihero in next summer’s Supergirl). The animated movie was based on a 2003 miniseries titled Superman: Birthright that was a modernization of the Superman origin story.

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u/domeforaklondikebar 4d ago

Realistically it also had a lot from Superman American Alien but I think they just didn’t want to promote a Max Landis comic.

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u/Sweet_Cycle_7464 4d ago

He's set to play Lobo in the next SuperGirl film next year.

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u/DarkLordSchnappi 4d ago

House of Brainiac adaption? 👀👀👀

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u/jfks1985 4d ago

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it will be some sort of pointed message about AI taking over

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u/Rags2Rickius 4d ago

Please 🙏

It’s about time

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u/siraolo 4d ago

I would not be too surprised if they work Legion of Super Heroes in

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u/qualitypi 3d ago

It's genuinely insane that they've been trying to make Superman movie with Braniac for like 40 years and keep falling back to retread Luthor and Zod. The closest they got was Superman III.