In theaters July 10, the film stars David Corenswet alongside Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, and more
David Corenswet's Superman — and by extension, Clark Kent — hits the ground running, just after he literally hits the ground, in the first trailer for James Gunn's Superman. What better way to launch the film sector of the DC Universe than with an opening shot of the superhero groaning in agony and dripping crimson red blood all over the white snow surrounding him?
“Krypto, home,” the hero tells his super dog. “Take me home.” It's the only moment of dialogue in the trailer, apart from the moment when a young child desperately wills Superman to arrive by repeating his name. In theaters July 11, Superman follows the double life of Superman and Clark Kent, a young journalist at the Daily Planet. They share a weight of responsibility that operates on different scales but remains intertwined.
Back home, Clark Kent hustles through crowded streets and embraces Rachel Brosnahan's Lois Lane. Meanwhile, Superman is shielding children from explosive blasts, getting pelted with trash tossed by angry spectators, and mourning a fallen Kelex.
The Superman trailer also introduces Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor, the hero's soon-to-be arch-nemesis who does his best to channel his inner James Bond while waving a gun around. Throughout the clip, Gunn cracks the DCU wide open with appearances from Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner/Green Lantern, and Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho. He opted to skip over an origin story in favor of diving straight into the story.
“It was about really putting us in the middle of the action from the beginning,” Gunn shared earlier this year in a press junket. “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.”
