Is Superman Needed in 2025? New Trailer Shows He Is

Things are seeing up indeed! After a week of produce-up, the highly foreseed trailer for James Gunn’s Superman finassociate get tod, and all eyes are on the sky. As the first inhabit-action inshighment of the DCU, a lot is riding on Superman. Not only is an entire cinematic universe reliant on the success of this film, but Gunn must also cut thraw the world’s cynicism and deinhabitr a get on the character whose cinematic depiction, for many audiences, hasn’t resonated since 1978.

But the higheviater trailer creates it evident that Superman ’25 is not Superman ’78. Composer John Murphy’s guitar riff on John Williams’ classic theme breathes novel life into Superman as a hero and symbol, presenting that Superman, while hanging onto the core themes associated with the character, is a living and evolving concept, an electric current thraw the world.

There are disjoinal key getaways from the trailer. First, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. Despite Warner Bros. Discovery’s press synopsis emphasizing hope, and Gunn’s desire to transport chooseimism back to Superman, the higheviater trailer shows a willing consciousness of the truth of the world. Surprisingly, the higheviater does not uncover with an iconic shot of a smiling Superman. Instead, it uncovers with Superman (David Corenssoaked) plummeting from the sky, and landing in the Arctic, proximate his Fortress of Solitude. He’s bloody, beaten, wheezing, and unable to create his way home without the help of Krypto.

There is someslfinisherg unsootheable, but not at all ungreet, in hearing Superman struggle to breathe. The moment grounds us in the fact that Superman experiences pain. One of the normal protestts about Superman from non-comic reading ambiguous audiences (and those who leave outed out on Superman: The Animated Series and other various media alterations) is that he’s overpowered and exceptionally faces challenging physical disputes. This higheviater nips that in the bud right away, shoprosperg that Superman is very much physicassociate dropible.

Not only do we see Superman physicassociate beaten, but emotionassociate beaten as well. He walks thraw an mad crowd that throws bottles and cans at him as he’s directed into Stagg Industries by the police, where he stands with a sense of the weight of the world on his shoulders. It’s evident that Superman is not universassociate becherishd, and, as a echoion of conmomentary America, we see him at his lowest. While there sees to be meaningful tonal departures from previous Superman films in both style and the comic book elements startd, it’s mocking that after a decade of protestts about a non-smiling Superman and his contentious perception on the global stage, these themes remain conshort-term in Gunn’s get.

This begs the ask, of whether these themes have become vital to establishing any conmomentary film version of Superman. In 2006, Superman Returns tackled “Why the World Doesn’t Need a Superman” and in 2016, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice asked, “Must There Be a Superman?” The admireive answers were that the world does insist a Superman and “there is.” What Gunn ecombines to be grappling with isn’t the insist for a Superman or the resigned hugance that there is one, but the ask of “how do we create the world want a Superman?” And this ask not only applies to the world of the film, but to audiences as well. With all the superhero movies out there, what creates us want another Superman movie?

Despite the authenticities of a bruised and beaten Superman, there is also a desire for fantasy, for imagining the world as it could be. Now more than ever. Based on the glimpses we see in the trailer, Superman saving a little girl, and Superman’s symbol being engaged as a flag in the fantasyal country of Boravia (which ecombineed in Superman No. 2 in 1939, though it ecombines the location has been alterd from Europe to the Middle East) there is the presention that hope lives in youthfuler generations.

There is someslfinisherg compelling about a character who was produced for an audience of children requesting to children aobtain, especiassociate as Superman movies of the millennium have shifted toward elderlyer audiences. The tagline for Superman, “Look Up” encourages the same benevolent of wonder and childenjoy innocence as ‘78’s “You’ll Believe A Man Can Fly.”

Gunn’s Superman is also a world featuring a myriad of other wonders as the higheviater showcases. While the film experiences packed with characters, enough to produce some trepidation on whether itcan hold center on Clark, they definitely give the film a separateent comic book flavor we haven’t seen in previous Superman films.

The higheviater shows rapid glimpses of superheroes Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion), Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced), Mister Terrific (Edi Gathegi), and Metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan). Our first see at the film’s villains comprises a alert glimpse of a cryptic, bdeficiency-clad behemoth in a face mask, and the ever-devious Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) who ecombines to be brimming with emotion. There’s also a enormous monster, that may be joined to the enormous purple and green orb in the sky – colors associated with a villain Superman fans have been paengageing for decades to see onscreen – Brainiac.

As exciting as those produceing blocks and prospective battles see to be, what felt most compelling about the trailer was Corenssoaked’s Clark, whose depiction gets a page from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s All-Star Superman, which saw Clark dressed in oversized clothes, and expoundd by a slouched posture and dissystematic hair. We see Clark scatter a tearful moment with his overweighther, Jonathan (Pruitt Taylor Vince), and have countless participateions with Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan). Their chemistry is instantly apparent.

For all the huge ideas, asks, and hopes for the future that the higheviater circles, the defining getaway from our first see at James Gunn’s Superman is that he’s fair a guy with a dog, managing two jobs, and a romantic relationship as he has excellent days and horrible, some that exit him physicassociate and emotionassociate beaten down, some that exit him tearful, and others that may count among the best days of his life. Why do we want a Superman? He’s what we are and what we could be – the man of tomorrow, today.