James Gunn's upcoming Superman film will explore the classic rivalry between Superman and Lex Luthor, starting the story in the middle of the action with established relationships between key characters.
The DC Universe dynamic between Lex Luthor and Superman gets established by James Gunn for the new Superman movie. One of DC Comics' most classic rivalries will be reimagined once more, with Gunn's Superman movie pitting Krypton's last son against Metropolis' most powerful figure. While the DC Universe is setting up the idea of superheroes already being established in this world, it also poses a lot of questions about various relationships between heroes and villains in this continuity.
During a Superman set visit in Cleveland, Ohio, back in June - with ScreenRant's own Rob Keyes present along with other outlets in the midst of principal photography for Gunn's 2025 superhero installment - the press got a better idea of not just the DC Universe timeline, but also about where Clark Kent's story picks up when audience members first begin to follow him. With the idea of a superhero origin story being less of a focus for Superman, Gunn stressed that there is a big focus on starting things off in the middle, as the DC Studios co-CEO shared the following: James Gunn: It was about really putting us in the middle of the action from the beginning. And there's a lot of these things in this movie now that I've been making it for over a year that I think of as normal. But now when you bring it up, I go, oh yeah, that's pretty unusual. We just start in the middle of the action. Superman's already existing. Lois and Clark already know each other. Lex hates Superman's guts from the beginning, although they don't know each other personally. So we start right in the middle of the action. It takes place over a short amount of time. Close With the many live-action Superman movies and TV shows that have come throughout the decades, the conflict between Superman and Lex has been heavily explored in various way
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