Kal-El no: James Gunn debunks Jacob Elordi Superman casting rumors
The Guardians Of The Galaxy filmmaker and DC Studios co-head Peter Safran are currently at work reimagining the comic book universe for the screen
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Following the announcement that the next DC Superman movie would follow a younger version of the hero rather than Henry Cavill’s iteration, writer and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has taken to Twitter to offer an update on the project. The director of The Suicide Squad was quick to debunk a fan rumor that Jacob Elordi of Euphoria fame would take up the cape.
“Casting, as is almost always the case with me, will happen after the script is finished or close to finished, and it isn’t,” Gunn writes. “We’ll announce a few things in not too long, but the casting of Superman won’t be one of them.”
Known for directing the Guardians Of The Galaxy movies, Gunn took the lead at the newly-minted DC Studios last November along with co-head Peter Safran to begin working on the next roadmap for bringing the comic book universe to the screen. The next Superman was first teased by the filmmaker in December, noted as being “a huge priority, if not the biggest priority.” Days later, Cavill confirmed that he would not be returning to the role he had been playing since 2013's Man Of Steel, despite having just been seen in Black Adam.
Gunn previously promised that there would be some concrete news about the future of DC onscreen “at the beginning of the new year,” which does sound like it should be any day now. Whatever does get announced, it won’t include Wonder Woman 3, Black Adam squaring off against Superman, or Elordi as the last son of Krypton.
Of course, with season three of Euphoria on the way, the actor can still look forward to a nice check from Warner Bros. Discovery. Elordi also recently completed filming on Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley biopic, in which he plays Elvis.
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his team is working hard. they put out word that he’s up for bond and now superman. he’s playing elvis in a biopic that’s filming right now. his team is working very hard…..
“HOW HARD IS HIS TEAM WORKIIIING?!”
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It’s Jacob El-Ordi! Get an editor fluent in Kryptonese, A.V. Club!
After some hit movies and TV shows, as well as taking the helm of a major IP, I have to imagine Gunn has a little bit of money pocketed away. I wonder why he doesn’t get a few more photos taken, maybe even splurge on some Glamour Shots, so that the AV Club can have different pictures of him to use in articles involving him.
I miss the one of James Franco making out with himself and the one of Brett Ratner with the Big Butt Book…but I’m also glad there are no longer articles about those two twats
I’ve only seen him in Euphoria, and maybe part of it is because his character is supposed to be a douchebag and part of it his doing an American accent, but he seems like a really flat and bland terrible actor.
Yeah hard to say. Nate is basically a numb sociopath and I’ve also never seen him in anything else.
like with Paul Mescal people just think he’s really hot so they are going nuts over trying to say he’s a good actor enough times so that it changes the very nature of reality itselfunfortunately it sounds like Mescal actually is a good actor, you can’t win ‘em all
Why would anyone cast a guy with such a weird little triangular jaw and beady eyes as Superman? That was the first giveaway that it was a hoax, that we know Gunn isn’t stupid. Gunn”s Twitter threads are always such an absurd swarm of SnyderBots & trolls that you’ve gotta wonder what they think they’re accomplishing. Do they believe if he sees them post the same comment 12000 times instead of 10000, he’ll suddenly acquiesce…?