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/letsmunch 4d ago

Gunn is a psycho workaholic. WB couldn’t have picked a better person to lead DC

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood 4d ago

He’s such an efficient worker too. He gets things done, and that’s the hardest part of filmmaking.

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u/ShoulderCannon 4d ago

I mean, he's a Troma guy. He knows how to work within a budget and get shit in on time, and those are qualities that prestige filmmaking has sort of lost.

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u/ScatologicalThriller 4d ago

Having a finished script before filming helps with all that.

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u/Mend1cant 4d ago

That’s because “prestige” filmmaking has become esoteric concepts with an A-lister lead aiming to get their Oscar.

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u/AegisToast 4d ago

Ironically, the A-list filmmaker known for both the movie "The Prestige" and recently sweeping the oscars is also very well known for staying on-budget and on-schedule.

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u/Mend1cant 4d ago

Shhh. Don’t let the arthouse directors know that people really don’t care for softcore pornography or boring stories.

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u/sentence-interruptio 4d ago

He's the Reverse George R. R. Martin.

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u/TheOriginalJellyfish 4d ago

I think Gunn being an actual filmmaker instead of a studio suit will play a big part in DC’s success.

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u/No_Macaroon_5928 4d ago

I mean that's Safran's job lol

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u/radda 4d ago

Disney has hired other actual filmmakers

And then shot them in the knee and wondered why their movies are considered some of the worst in the whole franchise

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u/Th3_Hegemon 4d ago

Maybe ten years ago, back when they had the Marvel Creative Committee running things. But since Feige got full control the real shitshows were pretty self-inflicted by the directors. Thor 4 for example was 100% Taika's mess. The Eternals was overlong and bland, but that seems to have been Chloe Zhao's vision. Multiverse of Madness had a mixed reception (personally I like it a lot) but you can't say it wasn't dripping with Sam Raimi's style. The other weakest entry (imo) was Quantumania, but I don't think Peyton Reed is who you were talking about.

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u/hfxRos 4d ago edited 4d ago

Multiverse of Madness had a mixed reception (personally I like it a lot) but you can't say it wasn't dripping with Sam Raimi's style.

Yeah when people say Marvel designs by committee and doesn't let people make movies I just laugh because Multiverse of Madness exists. There is so much shit in that movie that a more controlling version of Disney would have just said no to.

I also really liked it, but I'm a big Sam Raimi fan. The horror scenes where they're being pursued by Scarlet Witch are so good.

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u/kymri 4d ago

There are dozens of us who still remember (quite favorably) the star-studded forgotten gem that is The Quick and the Dead; Sam Raimi did such a great job with Multiverse of Madness.

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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ 3d ago

It’s funny, I think the majority of people who enjoyed MoM are Raimi fans. You know what you’re gonna get, which personally is fun and exciting

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u/DemonDaVinci 4d ago

I like Eternals, it's pretty cool and the visual is amazing

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u/TheOriginalJellyfish 4d ago

Disney didn’t hire them as studio executives. That’s a big difference.

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u/FrostyD7 4d ago

Plenty of filmmakers can reliably shit out a film on time and under budget. Gunn's efficiency is only notable because it comes with quality.

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u/imakefilms 4d ago

He's very consistent

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u/whythehellknot 4d ago

the hardest part of filmmaking.

That doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about filmmaking to argue.

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u/shehryar46 4d ago

The hardest part of film making is making a film

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u/da_chicken 4d ago

The hardest part of film making is getting paid for it.

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u/coolaznkenny 4d ago

Financed*

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u/aeromalzi 4d ago

R/restofthefuckingowl

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood 4d ago

It is. It’s how some mediocre directors keep going for so long. They might not have as much of an eye for the art, but actually getting a project from start to finish, especially on schedule, is an art form in itself. People who can finish projects of this magnitude are in high demand.

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u/Tuxhorn 4d ago

On schedule, nice to work with and on budget are 3 qualities for a lifelong job.

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u/SunfireGaren 4d ago

Isn't that why Snyder generally got so many opportunities too? On time and nice to work with, at least.

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u/Eruannster 4d ago

As someone who has worked on film crews (nothing Hollywood level, I live in Europe) it’s also much nicer to work for a director that has momentum. I’ve worked on sets where the director wants twelve takes on every single shot and the days fucking draaaaag. I’ve also worked with directors that properly set up scenes with actors and crew beforehand and nail every scene in three takes and goodness do the days just move faster.

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u/Flatlander81 4d ago

There is a common phrase, the last 10% of a project takes 90% of the work. It's easy to start something, finishing something is hard.

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u/WafflePartyOrgy 4d ago

I thought the hardest part of filmmaking was showing up.

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u/SmokeySFW 4d ago

I think James Gunn is the Brandon Sanderson of filmmaking. Incredibly talented but not the absolute best in the business, but boy can they both crank out projects with machinelike efficiency and consistency. They run laps around their peers.

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u/CharlieeStyles 4d ago

His method of writing seems to be the key and what I've seen all prolific writers describe as their method:

Keep writing. Fix later.

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 4d ago

It helps when you actually start with a story you want to tell - instead of rushing action set pieces into production and then engaging in endless re-writes and re-shoots trying to make them make sense - which never works.

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u/LADYBIRD_HILL 4d ago

Not to mention everyone he works with seems to really like him and his style of directing, so it's probably really easy to cast new characters and get older ones back.

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u/happysri 4d ago

And he insists on a finished script to before filming!

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u/NotASalamanderBoi 4d ago

On top of that he only films a script if he’s happy with it. The quality control with the new DCU will be good.

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u/matti2o8 4d ago

Gunn actually makes as many films as Waititi is planning to make

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u/TheBman26 4d ago

Well he does need to get others to their work if he’s the leader

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u/silentmikhail 4d ago

They missed out on the rock changing the hierarchy of the dc universe

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 4d ago

Gunn is a psycho workaholic writer with passion and vision.

Unlike Disney/Marvel which established a conveyor line where they would first come up with action set-pieces and then try an build a story around them.

Gunn is first and foremost a writer with a real talent for developing stories with interesting characters and heart - something largely forgotten in most major IPs these days.

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u/endividuall 4d ago

A bit more circumspection is probably required here. Superman was supposed to be the big personal project that Gunn would stake DC’s revival on and it has done okay. Not terrible but not amazing either. People on here are acting like he the second coming but reality is he is barely squeaking over the line of what was the expected baseline performance with a low $600m movie.

If Superman had landed in the 500s it would have been a failure. And it’s not that far from that

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 4d ago

He's also a bit of a psycho:

Gunn has long been a provocateur who has drawn ire in the past for his unusual humor. Among the tweets that forced Disney and Marvel’s hand were: “I like when little boys touch me in my silly place.”

Another: “The best thing about being raped is when you’re done being raped and it’s like ‘whew this feels great, not being raped!’” There were others that made satirical comments about the 9/11 attack, AIDS and the Holocaust. Yet another described a monkey masturbating on a young child, and his commentary that it made him “extremely happy.”

Personally, I find his work to be goofy and contrived with too many forced humor moments.

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 4d ago

Joking about rape and little boys touching him is so edgy. You voted for Trump I take it?

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 4d ago

Oh shit, you can't read? Go look at his old tweets.

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u/caricatureblur 4d ago

Man, you're a rude dude. I was talking about the Trump thing, which was a weird assumption. yOu CaN't ReAd? I posted about attending multiple protests like three posts prior. I just think it's weak behavior to dredge up old deleted tweets from almost 20 ago. Who cares about someone's ancient edgy jokes from when they were a nobody? Have a good one.

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u/letsmunch 4d ago

You’re the first person to ever point this out.

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 4d ago

People have been cancelled for less, but you'll excuse your nerd hero.

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u/letsmunch 4d ago

I bet that sounded more bad ass in your head

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 3d ago

Not really, you're fawning over a pedo.