James Gunn Recalls Henry Cavill’s Reaction To ‘Superman’ Re-Casting

As David Corenswet takes on the purple cape for James Gunn‘s Superman, DCU followers may nonetheless see Henry Cavill return in one other position.

The DC Studios boss just lately mentioned he “would love” to solid Cavill in his DCU as he recounted how he and co-chair Peter Safran broke the information to the “absolute gentleman” of an actor that he would not be taking part in Clark Kent within the franchise.

“It’s horrible. Consider it or not, the day we had been coping with attempting to determine if we may take the job at DC Studios,” recalled Gunn on the Pleased Unhappy Confused podcast. “The day the deal closed, hastily, they had been saying that Henry was again. And I used to be like, ‘What’s going on? We all know what the plan is. The plan was to come back in and do Superman.’ It was actually unfair to him and a complete bummer.”

When he and Safran had been tapped to co-head DC Studios in 2022, Gunn mentioned, “There was a vacuum on the time and lots of people had been… They’d a tackle what they needed to do at DC and so they had been attempting to pressure their method and it was simply by no means a part of the equation for [WBD CEO] David Zaslav. We got here in, and that was actually unlucky. I’m like, ‘This poor man.’”

Gunn and Safran then “sat down” with Cavill to interrupt the information. “He was an absolute gentleman and an incredible man about it,” recalled Gunn. “He mentioned, ‘The one factor I ask is that I’m capable of reveal it myself versus coming from you guys.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s a category act.’”

And though Corenswet has taken over because the Man of Metal, Cavill may nonetheless pop up within the new DCU. “I talked to him about it on that day. I might like to put Henry in one thing,” mentioned Gunn.

Since taking on DC Studios with Safran, Superman marks the primary entry in his new DCU franchise, which begins with the ‘Gods and Monsters’ part.