Who are all these people in James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy cast photo?
You know Superman and Lois, but who are Eve, Metamorpho, and The Engineer? And is that Skyler Gisondo?
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Warner Bros. is launching production on Superman: Legacy, and to celebrate, director/co-head of DC Studios James Gunn recently shared a photo on Instagram of the cast having a good time and staring directly into the sun. Gunn captioned the photo with clockwise character names, specifically: Eve, Mr. Terrific, Superman/Clark, Otis, Lex, Jimmy, Metamorpho, Lois, Hawkgirl, Guy, and The Engineer, plus him and co-DC Studios boss Peter Safran. That’s a lot of names, and seeing as how Gunn’s digging pretty deep into DC lore for this film—which will be the official launch of his new DC universe—we thought it would be helpful to break down who the heck these people are and who they’re playing.
One person you won’t see in this photo, though, is House Of The Dragon’s Milly Alcock. She was just cast as the new DC universe’s Supergirl, and while she will reportedly make an appearance in something soonish, she won’t make her proper debut until the Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow solo movie (coming at some point in the future).
In the order that Gunn named them, here’s who’s who in the Superman: Legacy cast photo.
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I trust they won’t be irritating but I really wish Gunn didn’t feel the need to include the goofy side characters from the Reeve movies. The DCAU was smart to switch out Eve for Mercy Graves, and Otis is just what you get when you can’t afford to show Superman flying all day long so you have Gene Hackman doing a two stooges routine whenever possible. Just seeing that Otis is in this worries me that we’re getting yet another goofy yelling Lex with a real estate scam.
Why is it we can get a movie based on Madame Web of all people but a comic accurate Lex Luthor is still just a pipe dream?
Lex Luthor has yet to steal 40 cakes on film – and that’s terrible.
Since November 2016 (if not sooner) it’s been A LOT easier to swallow a billionaire stealing cakes he could easily afford.
Oh just waitLook it’s pretty common knowledge that the predations of capitalism are making the general public less profitable of a market, and at the same time the mass production of luxury goods is allowing even fairly poor folks to enjoy the superficial trappings of wealth – you may not be able to afford diabetes care, but a lavish home theater is within reach of anyone willing to accrue some debt.As this situation worsens we’re going to see the investor class resort to more and more bizarre ways of demonstrating their social standing over the common man. You think techbros shooting up their kids’ blood and doing mushrooms at Bohemian Grove with Jeffrey Epstein is nuts? In ten or twenty years we’re going to see some real comic book shit. I’m talking full Hellfire Club stuff, just teenage billionaires in purge masks hunting the homeless for sport, space casinos, scuba diver gladiator deathmatches, Gorilla Brothels, you name it. After all, the real point of money is power, but there’s only so much power to go around; everyone else is going to have to settle for just standing out.
Yeah, ditto this… I’m still hopeful this’ll be good with Gunn at the helm, but man, Otis and Miss Tessmacher are not encouraging inclusions.A formidable, legit-scary Lex Luthor wouldn’t surround himself with incompetents.
Why can’t somebody try making a Superman movie that isn’t either grimdark or retro camp. There’s other options out there guys.
“…Otisberg?” “Miss Tessmacherrrrrr!!!!” 50 year old dorks like me never forget and Gunn knows this.
and nicolas hoult, god bless him, is more suited to ‘funny yelling’ than ‘yelling yelling’
I think that’s pretty certain now. They’re overcorrecting from the Snyder-era and making another goofy ass Superman movie.
The man’s name is Nathan Fillion, and it’s about time James Gunn put him in a movie.He was in GOTG Vol 3
He was the voice of the big blue prison rape alien in the first one, too. But since he was the star of Slither I think we can safely say this was a joke.
I’m pretty sure Sam was being sarcastic, since Nathan Fillion has been in just about every James Gunn film. Slither, GoTG 1 and 3, The Suicide Squad, and Super.
Boy, do I feel stupider tha usual now.
Hey! Don’t feel stupid. We all have those moments from time to time.
yeah but the point of those moments is to feel stupid for a little bit.
no worse feeling than when snark backfires.
He was also going to have a cameo in GotG 2 on a movie poster, but the scene got cut.
This is the kind of joke youd throw in an article to catch out your nemeses
“Dat’s the joke”
Dammit!
Oh boy
One person you won’t see in this photo, though, is House Of The Dragon’s Milly Alcock. Back in the day, I would’ve made an “It’s an omission…of alCOCK!” joke, but those AVC days are long gone.
Where did that meme come from, anyway?
Either from Laurel Canyon or an accidental Spike Lee tweet.It can also be two things.
I know where those come from, but “of cock” remains a mystery to me.
I thought she was the sexiest tomboy beanpole. And if you get that reference then congratulations, you were using the internet over 20 years ago.
Why would you remind me of AICN?!?
😀
wtf is a keeper of the flame lol
Still haven’t gotten used to how much Rachel Brosnahan looks like Evan Rachel Wood.
Has anyone ever seen them in the same place at the same time?
Rachels chin is a micro longer. Other than that no difference
Just kidding, we know his name was Serenity on FireflyNo it wasn’t. It was Mal!
Nah, I’m pretty sure he played McCoy, the doctor
No he was the titular Firefly of Firefly fame.Edit: Sorry, I have been informed that I was mistaken. He was, in fact, becky.
Yes, Capt. Malloy Browncoat.
Weird that we are getting a reboot, but we car keeping side characters made up for the Reeves era movies.
It’s sort of distracting how much the new Superman actually looks like a skinnier Henry Cavill.
They nailed that Jimmy Olsen casting, though.
They really did!
It makes me want to go rewatch Sant Clarita Diet, in which he was delightful.
Yeah Jimmy is spot on.Otis isn’t bad as well!
Funnily enough, I saw him and immediately thought skinnier Tom Welling.
Snyder never nailed the casting with Henry Cavill. He was the most wooden, miserable Superman we’ve ever had.
Jimmy Olsen casting is perfect!
Has there ever been a face better suited to opening a door, panic-shrieking at what’s on the other side, and slamming it shut?
Nathan Fillian as Superhero? Missed crossover opportunity.
Looks fine. Just use John Williams’ music for God’s sake. You’re not going to top it, it’s a waste of time to try.
I wish they would do that. Or at least just use the old theme’s “fanfare” as part of the soundtrack. If James Bond can keep the same theme, why not Superman?
It’s timeless, and has become part of the character more than of a particular continuity. Much like how the Watts Spider-man movies stopped making cute little references to the old cartoon theme and just unironically incorporated it into the score.
I wish the Miss Teschmacher actress was playing Lois…she’s closer to comic book canon.
Too much devotion to the 1978 film, instead of the comics.Super-genius wrestling fan Mr. TerrificThat was an Arrowverse thing, that’s not part of the character
Brownie points for the “One punch!” reference!
Good to see this story isn’t overstuffed with characters with powers. *cough*