{"id":84125,"date":"2025-09-25T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/84125\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:30:12","slug":"james-gunn-explains-why-supermans-origin-story-was-changed-in-dcu-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/84125\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Explains Why Superman\u2019s Origin Story Was Changed in DCU Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">James Gunn\u2019s DC Universe debut featured a fairly controversial change to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/superman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Superman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Superman<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s origin story, a move that the director recently explained isn\u2019t going to be altered or retconned.<\/p>\n<p>What did James Gunn say about Superman\u2019s origin story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On the director\u2019s commentary for Superman, Gunn explained his decision to tinker with Superman\u2019s iconic origin. In the 2025 movie, Superman is sent to Earth with a message from his parents, Jor-El and Lara. Kal-El believes the message he was given was to be a kind protector of Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, it\u2019s revealed that the real message Jor-El and Lara had was to task Kal-El with continuing the Kryptonian heritage and eventually rule the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gunn explained in the director\u2019s commentary that the message wasn\u2019t fake or planted by Lex Luthor, and that it won\u2019t be changed in any future DCU project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cNow this is probably the most controversial thing I did with Superman\u2019s origin,\u201d said Gunn. \u201cI am a big Superman fan. I don\u2019t want to change important, integral things about Superman. His goodness, his goodness of heart, the fact that he won\u2019t kill, the fact that he\u2019s in love with Lois Lane, even the curl on the head, all these things. I want to keep Superman Superman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSo the question is, what can you add to the mythos that\u2019s a little bit different, that doesn\u2019t really, essentially in any way, change who the character is? And although Clark\u2019s parents usually in the comics, are benevolent, that isn\u2019t always the case. There have been stories in which, even in canon . . . Jor-El is not always treated as a benevolent character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As for why he did it, Gunn said that he felt it helped Superman\u2019s overall message by the end of the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt is not something that is going to be retrofitted in the future,\u201d Gunn said. \u201cIt is the fact of Superman\u2019s life. He was sent by his parents to Earth, primarily, to save, but also they helped he would continue the Kryptonian heritage and take over Earth as its ruler. And that isn\u2019t who Superman thinks of himself as being at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn\u2019s DC Universe debut featured a fairly controversial change to Superman\u2018s origin story, a move that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,927,327,55831,928,55830],"class_list":{"0":"post-84125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-james-gunn","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-origin-story","15":"tag-superman","16":"tag-superman-fan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}