This has been a roller coaster of a week for DC fans now that the company is once again under new leadership and seemingly headed in a different creative direction. News broke on Monday that James Gunn and Peter Safran are out as the co-CEOs of DC Studios, with former Marvel Studios producer Jeremy Latcham in line to take their place as the new creative head of the studio. This news comes while Gunn is still hard at work in the post-production phase of his first Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, which is due in theaters on July 9, 2027. In addition to David Corenswet, who was back as Superman for the third time during his DCU tenure, the film is also set to star Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, Milly Alcock as Supergirl, and Adria Arjona.
David Corenswet took over the role of Clark Kent from Henry Cavill, who last played the character in the 2022 Dwayne Johnson-led blockbuster, Black Adam. Fans were led to believe after the ending of Black Adam that Henry Cavill was returning as Superman for at least another project, but when Gunn and Safran took over, one of their first announcements was that a new actor would take over the role. Cavill has been busy in the last few years with other movies like Enola Holmes 3 and In The Grey, but fans would still welcome him back into the DCU as Superman with open arms. During a recent sit down with Inverse, Cavill was asked about the potential of coming back to play Superman in the future now that the DCU is under new leadership, and his answer might surprise you:
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 MinutesWhich Superhero Team Should You Join?Avengers · X-Men · Teen Titans · The BoysEvery team is a personality test with a uniform. One saves the world and argues about it the whole way home. One has been fighting for the right to exist since the day it formed. One is still working out who it is while the fighting happens. And one has no powers at all, plus no intention of playing fair. Eight questions decide where you actually belong.
🛡️Avengers(Marvel Studios)
🧬X-Men(Marvel)
🐦Teen Titans(DC)
💊The Boys(Prime Video)
FIND YOUR TEAM →
01
What kind of power would you actually want?The power matters less than what you would be willing to do with it.
ASomething enormous and obvious. I would not hide it.
BSomething I was born with, whether I wanted it or not.
CSomething still growing that I cannot quite control.
DNone at all. I would rather nobody sees me coming.
02
Why join a team at all?Nobody puts on the suit for the reason they say out loud.
ABecause some threats are too big for anyone alone.
BBecause people like me are safer together than apart.
CBecause I did not want to do any of this alone.
DBecause somebody has to hold these people accountable.
03
How do you feel about the people in charge?Every team has a chain of command. Very few of them survive contact.
AI will follow a good leader and argue with a bad one.
BThey have never protected people like me. I expect nothing.
CI am still learning who to trust, and getting it wrong.
DThey are the problem. That is the entire point.
04
What is your role inside a group?Every roster needs the same handful of people to function.
AThe big personality. I take up room and I earn it.
BThe one who protects whoever arrived most recently.
CThe heart. I keep everybody talking to each other.
DThe one who says the uncomfortable thing out loud.
05
How do you win a fight you should lose?This is the scene the entire film gets built around.
AOverwhelming force, and a very good landing.
BWorking together in a way nobody saw coming.
CRefusing to give up long after I should have.
DPreparation, leverage, and one extremely dirty trick.
06
What is this work costing you?Nobody does this for free. The bill just arrives differently for everyone.
AMy private life. Everybody knows my face now.
BMy safety. The world is frightened of me.
CMy childhood. I grew up faster than I should have.
DMy peace. I cannot stop now that I know.
07
How should the world see your team?Half of this job is public relations, and everybody knows it.
AAs icons. The team everyone is relieved to see arrive.
BAs people. Just people, which is all we ever asked.
CAs proof the next generation is going to be fine.
DThey should not see us at all until it is done.
08
The offer arrives. What makes you say yes?Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your team.
AThe scale. If the world is ending, I want to be there.
BThe promise that I would not have to hide anymore.
CThe people. I would be joining friends, not an employer.
DThe chance to take down somebody who deserves it.
Recruitment Is CompleteYour Team Is…
Four teams, four completely different reasons to put
Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger
for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it
would cost you to stay.
Marvel Studios · The Avengers · Since 2012
The Avengers
You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are
loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the
room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.
- The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and
reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process. - You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the
real entry requirement here. - The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement,
usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building. - When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.
Marvel · X-Men · Since 1963
The X-Men
You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The
X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something
in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.
- This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being
wanted gone by the same people they keep saving. - You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will
not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable. - The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else
to go and are never once asked to explain themselves. - You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.
DC · Teen Titans · Since 1964
The Teen Titans
You do not want colleagues, you want your
You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are
the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an
inconvenient side effect.
- Every Titan is somebody’s sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the
villain of the week, is what the team is actually about. - You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you,
which is far less lonely than being the only one. - The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more
honest model of growing up than any other team here manages. - The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.
Prime Video · The Boys · Since 2019
The Boys
You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a
while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people
in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.
- The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage,
patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences. - You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed
not to mention. - This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged
people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean. - You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.
“Look, there’s lots of fantastic storylines. There’s always a lot of opportunity… I’ve had such a wonderful time playing Superman in the past. I would never say never now.”
What Do We Know About the Future of the DCU?
The reality is that, right now, we don’t know much about what the future of the DCU is going to look like. There are reports that Gunn will continue to write and direct movies at DC, but also reports that the studio is looking to take things in a different direction. It won’t be until Skydance, the new name for the merged company formed by Warner Bros and Paramount, comes out with a public statement that we’ll have some idea of what the future at DC holds.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the DCU and Henry Cavill’s future projects.
PG-13
ActionAdventureSci-Fi
Superhero
Release Date
June 14, 2013
Runtime
143 minutes
Director
Zack Synder
Writers
David S. Goyer, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Christopher Nolan
Producers
Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Deborah Snyder
Henry Cavill
Clark Kent / Superman / Kal-El
Amy Adams
Lois Lane
An alien child is evacuated from his dying world and sent to Earth to live among humans. His peace is threatened when other survivors of his home planet invade Earth.
