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Everybody has been ready for James Gunn to substantiate that he’s directing Superman: Legacy, and the actual fact he’s ended his temporary social media silence with out addressing the elephant within the room solely makes it all of the extra inevitable.
Not that anybody will likely be notably shocked when The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker creator has at all times been the primary front-runner to name the photographs from behind the digicam, however whereas he hasn’t acknowledged Tom King spilling the beans in an interview that’s since been made non-public on YouTube, he’ll debunk a rumor from his on-line arch-nemesis Grace Randolph.
Gunn has been more than pleased to interact in a number of Twitter back-and-forths with the polarizing character over time, with one of many Past the Trailer host’s newest “inside scoops” intimating {that a} casting name has been despatched out for the roles of Superman and Lois Lane with an age vary of 20-30, with the DC Studios co-CEO listed because the director on the doc in query.
After being requested immediately if that was the case, Gunn didn’t waste any time in pouring chilly water on yet one more unfounded snippet of Superman: Legacy scuttlebutt.
No. A casting director hasn’t even been employed.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) March 11, 2023
In fact, its much more telling that although his feed has change into totally swamped with individuals demanding he anoint himself because the director of the superhero reboot in a public discussion board, he’s determined to disregard all of the noise in favor of reigniting his ongoing conflict of attrition with Randolph. Relaxation assured, with a decade of DCU content material within the pipeline, that is going to be removed from the final time we discover the 2 at odds with regards to separating reality from fiction.