As David Corenswet takes on the pink cape for James Gunn‘s Superman, DCU followers may nonetheless see Henry Cavill return in one other function.
The DC Studios boss lately stated 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 now not be taking part in Clark Kent within the franchise.
“It’s horrible. Imagine it or not, the day we had been coping with making an attempt to determine if we may take the job at DC Studios,” recalled Gunn on the Glad Unhappy Confused podcast. “The day the deal closed, rapidly, 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 return 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 stated, “There was a vacuum on the time and lots of people had been… They’d a tackle what they needed to do at DC they usually had been making an attempt to power their approach 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 amazing man about it,” recalled Gunn. “He stated, ‘The one factor I ask is that I’m in a position to reveal it myself versus coming from you guys.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s a category act.’”
David Corenswet in ‘Superman’
Warner Bros./DC Studios
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,” stated 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.