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Former Superman histrion Dean Cain has questioned caller comments from writer and manager James Gunn, who had discussed his caller instrumentality connected Superman successful narration to the character’s presumption arsenic an immigrant.
In a illustration portion successful The Times, Gunn said helium was good alert immoderate radical would instrumentality discourtesy astatine his caller Superman movie "just due to the fact that it is astir kindness."
Superman, which launches today, July 11 and kickstarts the rebooted DC Universe, comes retired "at a peculiar clip erstwhile radical are feeling a nonaccomplishment of anticipation successful different people's goodness," Gunn said.
"I'm telling a communicative astir a feline who is uniquely good, and that feels needed present due to the fact that determination is simply a meanness that has emerged owed to taste figures being mean online."
The DCU steward added: "And I see myself successful this. It is advertisement infinitum, millions of radical having tantrums online. How are we expected to get anyplace arsenic a culture? We don't cognize what's real, and that is simply a truly hard spot for the quality encephalon to be. If I could property a fastener to marque the net vanish I'd see it. And, no, I don't marque films to alteration the world, but if a fewer radical could beryllium conscionable a spot nicer aft this it would marque maine happy."
But it was Gunn’s remark connected Superman successful narration to the quality being an migrant that sparked thing of a blimpish backlash. With immoderate MAGA supporters present calling Superman “SuperWoke,” Fox News anchor Kellyanne Conway weighed in: “We don’t spell to the movie theatre to beryllium lectured to and to person idiosyncratic propulsion their ideology onto us. I wonderment if it volition beryllium successful.”
What did Gunn say, exactly, to substance specified a vociferous response? The communicative of Superman is "the communicative of America," Gunn said successful The Times profile, adding: "Superman himself is "an migrant that came from different places and populated the country, but for maine it is mostly a communicative that says basal quality kindness is simply a worth and is thing we person lost."
Gunn past admitted his caller Superman movie "plays differently" successful antithetic parts of the United States (The Times interviewer wondered however antithetic it volition play successful New York and Kansas, for example). Gunn concluded that helium expects immoderate radical volition find his caller Superman offensive, but helium dismissed that reaction.
"But it's astir quality kindness and evidently determination volition beryllium jerks retired determination who are conscionable not benignant and volition instrumentality it arsenic violative conscionable due to the fact that it is astir kindness. But screw them."
That was capable to acceptable disconnected Dean Cain, who played Superman successful ABC amusement Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997. In an interrogation with TMZ, Cain said: “I deliberation bringing Superman into it… I deliberation that was a mistake by James Gunn to accidental it’s an migrant thing, and I deliberation it’s going to wounded the numbers connected the movie. I was excited for the film. I americium excited to spot what it is due to the fact that James Gunn seems to person a consciousness of humor, and the past iterations of Superman didn't person overmuch humor, and I emotion the wit successful Superman. So I’m rooting for it to beryllium a success, but I don’t similar that past governmental comment.”
Cain besides leaned into this thought that Gunn’s Superman is "woke," accusing Disney of "changing beloved characters" and referencing the container bureau bomb, Snow White.
"How woke is Hollywood going to marque this character?" Cain said. “How overmuch is Disney going to alteration their Snow White? Why are they going to alteration these characters that beryllium for the times? For Superman, it was, 'Truth, justice, and the American way.' Well, they dropped that. In information they fto it go, they fto that trademark connected that go, truthful it's retired there. And they came up with, 'Truth, justice, and a amended tomorrow.' Changing beloved characters I don’t deliberation is simply a large idea. If you privation to make a caller quality spell up and bash that.
“But for me, Superman has ever stood for, 'Truth, justness and the American way,' and the 'American way' is migrant friendly, tremendously migrant friendly,” Cain continued.
It’s worthy pointing retired that Superman has ever been an migrant successful America, successful that helium is virtually an "illegal" alien. Indeed, Superman stories implicit the years person touched connected this fact, which is cardinal to the character’s backstory.
— Mischief (@MischiefsYT) July 6, 2025superman taking his amerciable migrant relative buying to assistance her assimilate to earth: https://t.co/hoODu1whmR pic.twitter.com/QCVEHy123d
— JOLLY J✨ (@DynamoSuperX) June 10, 2025The blimpish backlash to Gunn’s comments were a blistery taxable connected the Superman reddish carpet earlier this week, wherever Variety asked Gunn straight for a response. “This movie’s for everybody,” Gunn insisted. “I’m not present to justice people. I deliberation this is simply a movie astir kindness and I deliberation that’s thing everyone tin subordinate to.”
Similarly, Guy Gardner histrion Nathan Fillion shrugged disconnected the reaction, saying: “Aw, idiosyncratic needs a hug. Just a movie, guys.”
Nathan Fillion connected MAGA backlash to James Gunn calling Superman an immigrant: "Somebody needs a hug. It's conscionable a movie guys." pic.twitter.com/MzVNZMKZ72
— Variety (@Variety) July 8, 2025Sean Gunn, James Gunn’s member and long-standing collaborator who plays Maxwell Lord successful Superman, offered stronger comments, however. "My absorption to [the backlash] is that it is precisely what the movie is about,” helium told Variety.
“We enactment our people, you know? We emotion our immigrants. Yes, Superman is an immigrant, and yes, the radical that we enactment successful this state are immigrants and if you don’t similar that, past you’re not American. People who accidental nary to immigrants are against the American way. They're against what the American imagination is each about."
Sean Gunn connected the MAGA backlash to Superman being called an immigrant: "People who accidental nary to immigrants are against the American way." pic.twitter.com/XgivaD34PE
— Variety (@Variety) July 8, 2025Cain’s proposition that Gunn’s comments whitethorn wounded Superman’s container bureau deed conscionable days earlier the movie launched successful theaters. With Superman acceptable to footwear disconnected the rebooted DC Universe for Warner Bros., intelligibly determination is simply a batch riding connected its performance, truthful Hollywood volition beryllium watching intimately to spot if the blimpish backlash has makes immoderate meaningful interaction connected the numbers.
But Gunn has said rumors surrounding precisely however overmuch wealth Superman needs to marque successful bid to beryllium considered palmy are wide of the mark. In a illustration of Superman histrion David Corenswet published connected GQ, Gunn downplayed the container bureau unit connected the movie. “This is not the riskiest endeavor successful the world,” Gunn insisted.
Gunn past called the $700 cardinal fig that has been touted online arsenic the minimum Superman needs to marque during its theatrical tally to debar flop presumption arsenic “just implicit and utter nonsense,” but admitted determination is of people immoderate unit connected the movie to present for Warner Bros.
“Is determination thing riding connected it? Yeah, but it’s not arsenic large arsenic radical marque it retired to be,” Gunn said. “They perceive these numbers that the movie’s lone going to beryllium palmy if it makes 700 cardinal oregon thing and it’s conscionable implicit and utter nonsense. It doesn’t request to beryllium arsenic large of a concern arsenic radical are saying.”
This blimpish backlash isn’t the lone unit pushing against Superman. Last month, mods looking aft the SnyderCut subreddit deleted a station calling connected fans to reappraisal weaponry the Superman movie and issued a connection to their assemblage members.
Gunn had responded to the post, which issued a telephone to arms to “stand up and combat for SnyderVerse connected July 11” (the merchandise day of Superman). “Gunn fired the archetypal changeable and killed the SnyderVerse and present is our accidental to instrumentality the combat backmost to him,” the station said.
After a Threads idiosyncratic brought the station to Gunn’s attention, helium replied to disregard its interaction connected Superman’s imaginable success. “Lol I deliberation we'll survive,” helium said. “I'm not definite the 8 radical that perceive to that feline (I'm going to spell retired connected a limb and conjecture it's a guy) are going to interaction the people of events.”
Be definite to cheque retired our article, Superman and Why the Battle for Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow Is Never-Ending, to find retired much astir the character's history.
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