{"id":146989,"date":"2025-07-19T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T08:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/james-gunn-recalls-henry-cavills-reaction-to-superman-re-casting\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T08:02:18","slug":"james-gunn-recalls-henry-cavills-reaction-to-superman-re-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/james-gunn-recalls-henry-cavills-reaction-to-superman-re-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Recalls Henry Cavill’s Reaction To ‘Superman’ Re-Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAs David Corenswet<\/a> takes on the pink cape for James Gunn<\/a>\u2018s Superman<\/a><\/em>, DCU<\/a> followers might nonetheless see Henry Cavill<\/a> return in one other function.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe DC Studios<\/a> boss lately stated he \u201cwould love\u201d to forged Cavill in his DCU as he recounted how he and co-chair Peter Safran<\/a> broke the information to the \u201cabsolute gentleman\u201d of an actor that he would not be enjoying Clark Kent within the franchise.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s terrible. Believe it or not, the day we were dealing with trying to figure out if we could take the job at DC Studios,\u201d recalled Gunn on the Happy Sad Confused<\/a><\/em> podcast. \u201cThe day the deal closed, all of a sudden, they were announcing that Henry was back<\/a>. And I was like, \u2018What is going on? We know what the plan is. The plan was to come in and do Superman<\/em>.\u2019 It was really unfair to him and a total bummer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen he and Safran had been tapped to co-head DC Studios in 2022, Gunn stated, \u201cThere was a vacuum at the time and a lot of people were\u2026 They had a take on what they wanted to do at DC and they were trying to force their way and it was just never part of the equation for [WBD CEO] David Zaslav. We came in, and that was really unfortunate. I\u2019m like, \u2018This poor guy.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGunn and Safran then \u201csat down\u201d with Cavill to interrupt the information. \u201cHe was an absolute gentleman and a great guy about it,\u201d recalled Gunn. \u201cHe said, \u2018The only thing I ask is that I\u2019m able to reveal it myself<\/a> as opposed to coming from you guys.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018That\u2019s a class act.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tAnd though Corenswet has taken over because the Man of Steel, Cavill might nonetheless pop up within the new DCU. \u201cI talked to him about it on that day. I would love to put Henry in something,\u201d stated Gunn.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince taking up DC Studios with Safran, Superman<\/em> marks the primary entry in his new DCU franchise, which begins with the \u2018Gods and Monsters\u2019 part.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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[ad_1] As David Corenswet takes on the pink cape for James Gunn\u2018s Superman, DCU followers might nonetheless see Henry Cavill return in one other function. The DC Studios boss lately stated he \u201cwould love\u201d to forged Cavill in his DCU as he recounted how he and co-chair Peter Safran broke the information to the \u201cabsolute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[12439,1484,647,457,1809,1022,12440,733],"class_list":{"0":"post-146989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cavills","9":"tag-gunn","10":"tag-henry","11":"tag-james","12":"tag-reaction","13":"tag-recalls","14":"tag-recasting","15":"tag-superman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}