James Gunn’s Superman has hit the big screen, firmly closing the door on his Marvel days, something which the director doesn't feel guilty about at all."No, I just shook my head. I didn’t feel that way because I was fired,

Writer-director and DC Studios co-head James Gunn did everyone a solid by skipping the origin story route — just as Marvel Studios did with Spider-Man when the webslinger joined the MCU sandbox. Superman’s been around for more than eight decades — he’s DC’s most famous undocumented alien.

The new head of DC Studios admits one thing about the MCU never made sense.

Now that David Corenswet's Superman is flying high at the box office and Milly Alcock's Supergirl is hitting cinemas next year, DC fans are already thinking about the next major superheroes that are set to join the franchise. Of course, we're talking about Batman and Wonder Woman, who are yet to be cast in the new DCU.

As James Gunn‘s DCU launches with the premiere of Superman, his Marvel days appear to be in the past for now. Following the director’s 2018 ousting from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, Gunn admitted he “thought my career was over,

His mere casting is the first good decision by Gunn, getting the movie (and thus, the series) off on the right foot. The film forgoes its main character’s origin story and picks up three years after the Superman persona has become known to the public.

I was excited about James Gunn ’s Superman , but I didn’t expect the film to hit me the way it did. I walked in thinking I’d get a decent kickoff to Gunn’s DCU, and I walked out convinced I’d just seen one of the most wildly creative,