{"id":73655,"date":"2025-07-18T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73655\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:20:12","slug":"james-gunn-reveals-how-he-told-henry-cavill-he-wouldnt-be-in-superman-and-if-he-could-be-cast-as-a-different-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73655\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Reveals How He Told Henry Cavill He Wouldn’t Be in ‘Superman’ and If He Could Be Cast as a Different Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the DC Universe relaunches with Superman<\/strong><\/a>, one major question has followed the franchise since day one: what really happened with Henry Cavill<\/a>? <\/strong>Now, DC Studios co-head James Gunn<\/strong> is pulling back the curtain on that delicate transition \u2014 including the moment he personally told Cavill he wouldn\u2019t be returning as the Man of Steel.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe sat down with Henry, we didn’t call him. We sat down with him,\u201d Gunn explained on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

The confusion around Cavill\u2019s status reached a boiling point in October 2022 when he made a surprise cameo in Black Adam<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 and was quickly told by Warner Bros. to announce his return as Superman. Cavill posted on Instagram, \u201cThe image you see on this post and what you saw in Black Adam are just a very small taste of things to come.\u201d That taste turned bitter just two months later when Gunn and Peter Safran<\/strong> took over DC Studios and began charting a new course<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe day our deal closed, all of a sudden they were announcing that [Cavill] was back. And I\u2019m like, What is going on? We know what the plan is. The plan was to come in and do Superman. Yeah, so it was really unfair to him, and it was a total bummer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What Caused the Henry Cavill and Superman Confusion?<\/p>\n

Gunn went on to explain the chaotic vacuum at DC at the time \u2014 multiple factions within the company, including former execs and a certain actor portraying Black Adam<\/strong><\/a>, were pushing different visions<\/strong> of the future. Cavill\u2019s cameo was part of that confusion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere was a vacuum at the time, and a lot of people were trying to be as diplomatic as possible\u2026 trying to force their way. It just was never a part of the equation for David Zaslav<\/strong> [CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Faced with a messy situation they didn\u2019t create, Gunn and Safran decided to handle it directly.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo Peter and I \u2014 the right thing to do was to sit down with him and talk to him. And we sat down, we talked to him. He was an absolute gentleman, a great guy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And it was Cavill himself who made a very reasonable request:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe said, \u2018The only thing I ask is that I’m able to reveal it myself, as opposed to it coming from you guys.\u2019 And I’m like, That\u2019s… he’s a class actor. He has been from the start.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Despite the heartbreak of the Superman recast, Gunn made it clear that Cavill\u2019s days in the DCU might not be over: <\/strong>Yeah, no, I talked to him about it on that day. So yeah, no, I would, I would love to put Henry in something.\u201d That\u2019s the first official confirmation that Cavill could still join the DCU \u2014 just not as Kal-El.<\/p>\n

\nSuperman is in theaters now.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Release Date<\/strong>\n <\/dt>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJuly 9, 2025<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

\n Runtime<\/strong>\n <\/dt>\n
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\t\t\t\t130 minutes<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

\n Director<\/strong>\n <\/dt>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Gunn<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

\n Producers<\/strong>\n <\/dt>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLars P. Winther, Nik Korda, Peter Safran<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the DC Universe relaunches with Superman, one major question has followed the franchise since day one: what…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-73655","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\/114876332393023698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73655","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=73655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}