{"id":52587,"date":"2025-07-09T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52587\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:15:09","slug":"superman-exclusive-clip-reveals-whos-really-behind-the-mystery-villain-the-hammer-of-boravia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52587\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman: Exclusive Clip Reveals Who’s Really Behind the Mystery Villain The Hammer of Boravia"},"content":{"rendered":"

IGN can exclusively reveal a new action scene from director James Gunn\u2019s Superman<\/a>. The clip is introduced by Superman star David Corenswet.<\/p>\n

In the scene, the villainous Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) directs his staff in programming The Hammer of Boravia’s fight moves against the Man of Steel as they brawl over the skies of Metropolis.<\/p>\n

The Hammer of Boravia is an original character created by writer-director James Gunn and who was first revealed in a faux Daily Planet article<\/a> \u2013 written by Clark Kent, no less \u2013 that was used as marketing material for the first DCU movie.<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s article said the Hammer of Boravia came to Metropolis seeking “retribution for the recent political interventions in Boravia by Superman.”<\/p>\n

“Boravia has been the source of numerous headlines worldwide in recent weeks as it invaded its neighboring country Jarhanpur, only for the brief war to be swiftly ended by the Superman,\u201d according to Clark\u2019s article. \u201cThe President of Boravia, Vasil Glarkos, maintains the Hammer of Boravia is not a representative of the national government, but rather an independent vigilante.”<\/p>\n

The clip revealing that Luthor is actually behind the Hammer of Boravia\u2019s actions may seem like a spoiler to some but, honestly, are you really surprised that Lex Luthor is behind something that makes Superman look bad?<\/p>\n

As IGN\u2019s Jesse Schedeen observed when the trailer first showed the Hammer of Boravia in action, the armored villain\u2019s mission to Metropolis \u201cmakes it clear that Gunn\u2019s Superman will explore the challenges Kal-El faces trying to be not just a force for good inside Metropolis, but on the world stage<\/a>. He\u2019s doing his best to protect all innocents and creating an international incident in the process. In that sense, the new film seems to share a little in common with Zack Snyder\u2019s Batman v Superman<\/a>, which also dealt with the unintended consequences of Superman operating outside the boundaries of the US.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ranking the Superman Movies\"It's<\/p>\n

For more, read IGN\u2019s Superman review<\/a> wherein our critic, Tom Jorgensen, hails Gunn\u2019s film as \u201ca wonderfully entertaining, heartfelt cinematic reset for the Man of Steel, and a great new start for the DC universe on the big screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Superman opens nationwide release in theaters and IMAX on July 11<\/p>\n

Jim Vejvoda (he\/him) is IGN’s Sr. Manager, Entertainment Content Partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IGN can exclusively reveal a new action scene from director James Gunn\u2019s Superman. The clip is introduced by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-52587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114825823691297017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}