James Gunn, Superman and Zack Snyder
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Back in February, James Gunn got some big reactions from the internet with a post on social media featuring him hanging out with Zack Snyder, and more recently, the two filmmakers joined forces for cameos in an episode of Rick And Morty that had them playing versions of themselves.
It might be a minefield we're stepping into, but it's time to look at the evidence and make the case for and against Superman directors Zack Snyder and James Gunn in the great debate of our Super-times.
Man of Steel prompted a lot of incensed and opinionated responses when it premiered, but none of Snyder’s choices in the film drew as much ire as the decision to have Superman kill Michael Shannon’s General Zod during their Metropolis-destroying battle.
Both Zack Snyder and James Gunn imagine Superman getting arrested, but they take a very different approach to the scene.
Zack Snyder gives James Gunn some unsolicited advice about his 'Superman' movie as the two cameo on 'Rick and Morty': 'He's the Man of Steel, not the Man of Conversation.'
Here are five major differences that show how Gunn is reshaping Superman for the next generation. Before he’s a hero, before the cape and the headlines, Superman is just Clark, a Kansas boy with a secret and a pen.
Rachel Brosnahan and David Corenswet are phenomenal, but DCU kickoff 'Superman' is too slight to feel like the start of something big.
The funny part of that in Rick and Morty, Snyder has actually seen Gunn’s Superman, "Just saw your new cut of Superman. Word of advice, he’s the Man of Steel, not the Man of Conversation," said animated Snyder, adding, "do more shots of him punching!"
James Gunn’s Superman has already broken a few records at the box office, but does it stack up against Man of Steel?
Joining a long list of celebrity voices to have appeared on Rick and Morty, Snyder popped up to play himself. But the main guest star in “Ricker Than Fiction” is James Gunn —whose Superman hits theaters later this week,
The first time we see the titular hero of James Gunn’s new film “Superman,” he doesn’t descend from the heavens. He plummets.
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