James Gunn Teases “Superman” Star David Corenswet’s Freakishly Great Performance
“Honestly, from the bottom of my heart, David Corenswet is going to freak everyone out with how great he is,” said James Gunn during a chat with his Creature Commandos showrunner Dean Lowery and The Hollywood Reporter. “He is one of the best actors I’ve ever worked with, and he can do everything. The man is incredible.”
Gunn, the now not-so-newly-minuted co-chief of DC Studios, was with Lowery mainly to talk about the first season of Creature Commandos, the animated series that will launch Gunn and Peter Safran’s new united DC Universe. A question was bound to come up about the first live-action feature film that will fall under the new DC Universe banner, Gunn’s Superman, so the writer/director delivered his confident take on how the new Superman held up to the task.
Superman is currently being test-screened and it will be a minute before we get a peek at the trailer, but Creature Commandos is coming up now, with its release on HBO Max arriving on December 5. The animated series is set shortly after Peacemaker season one, with the DC’s main macher, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), finding a way around the congressional ruling that prohibited her from using human prisoners for the suicidal missions she sends them on for A.R.G.U.S.—her solution? Use imprisoned monsters instead.
So, Waller finds a new leader for her operation, Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo), the father of Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), the loyal, tough soldier who was murdered by Peacemaker (John Cena) in Gunn’s first DC film, his 2021 The Suicide Squad. Gunn, who wrote the entire first season of Creature Commandos on spec before he was tapped to co-lead DC Studios, also found a place for Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr. in season two of Peacemaker and in Superman, connecting the animated series, the live-action series, and his first big swing feature.
Gunn says that season two of Peacemaker will surprise people. “We take a very different route than the first season, and it’s a really magical story that people are going to be blown away by.”
“I feel great,” Gunn told THR when first asked about his first crack at retelling Superman’s story. “Superman is an enormous bear of a movie. It’s completely different from this show in every way, but it’s very much fantastic as well.”
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Featured image: David Corenswet is Clark Kent/Superman in “Superman.” Courtesy James Gunn/Warner Bros.
