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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: James Gunn's Superman
Description: [School of Movies 2025]
This is a BIG one folks, the first major change in direction for silver screen DC comics adaptations since Nolan's Batman Begins in 2005 (though it has plenty of recent tonal forerunners to back it up, including Aquaman, Blue Beetle and the first Shazam! all of which we recommend seeing as well). This is what Warner Bros. were blushingly groping for in 2017 while trying to course-correct Zack Snyder's Justice League in the edit.
But it isn't just a statement of intent for the future and a mission statement for potentially carving out a...