Superman (2025): Telling a Superhero Story the DC Way
How James Gunn chooses myth over Marvel
This year’s Superman opens with the Man of Steel lying spent and bloody on the Arctic tundra. It’s a perfect metaphor for the state of the world’s founding superhero after the battering he took under DC’s chaotic Extended Universe project. An uppercut from the ponderous Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013), a one-two from the joyless Batman…
