{"id":476597,"date":"2025-12-28T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:06:13","slug":"zack-snyder-shows-henry-cavills-superman-in-iconic-red-trunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476597\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Snyder shows Henry Cavill’s Superman in iconic red trunks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Superman\u2019s little red shorts are one of those things superhero fans tend to have a hard time being normal about: Walking, as they do, the line between being totally iconic and also completely ridiculous, the Daisy Dukes Of Steel generate comment whether they\u2019re part of a cinematic Supes\u2019 costume\u2014as they have been in most incarnations, including James Gunn\u2019s latest<\/a>\u2014or if they\u2019re absent, as they were with Zack Snyder\u2019s Man Of Steel<\/a>. Now, though, we can finally get a glimpse at what a brighter, more primary color-coded version of Henry Cavill\u2019s Kal-El might have looked like, as Snyder hopped on social media this weekend to show some of the first test images of his version of the character\u2014complete with a much brighter, more shorts-forward look.<\/p>\n

Posted to Snyder\u2019s Instagram<\/a>, the photos show Cavill, not in the textured, armored-looking suit he wore in three films for the director (and then one more because Dwayne Johnson pretty much begged for it<\/a>), but a clear copy of the suit that Christopher Reeve wore for his four Superman\u00a0films, red trunks and all. It\u2019s a simplistic, undeniably effective look: You can understand why Snyder notes in the picture\u2019s caption that as soon as he passed the shots on to his collaborators at Warner Bros., \u201cEveryone agreed: Henry Cavill was Superman.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, Gunn revealed, back during the run-up to the release of 2025\u2019s Superman, that he\u2019d talked directly with Snyder about his own struggles with the red trunks<\/a>, which he couldn\u2019t quite wrap his head around: \u201cI talked to Zack Snyder, who was like, \u2018I tried a billion different versions with the trunks, and at the end of the day, I tried it, but I just couldn\u2019t get there.\u2019 And I was feeling exactly the same way.\u201d Gunn told reporters that it was actually Superman actor David Corenswet who ended up squaring the circle for him, acknowledging that the trunks make Superman look a little goofy, and that that\u2019s actually okay: \u201cOne of the things David said is that Superman wants kids to not be afraid of him. He\u2019s an alien. He\u2019s got these incredible powers. He shoots beams out of his eyes. \u2026 He\u2019s incredibly powerful and could be considered scary. He wants people to like him. He wants to be a symbol of hope and positivity. So he dresses like a professional wrestler. He dresses in a way that makes people unafraid of him, that shows that hope and shows that positivity. And that really clicked in for me.\u201d<\/p>\n