Table of Contents After the first trailer for James Gunn’s Superman premiered in late 2024, the filmmaker offered some insight into the movie’s beaten, bloodied take on the Last Son of Krypton. “We do have a battered Superman in the beginning. That is our country,” Gunn told journalists at a special Q&A preview event. Few would disagree with his analogy for the current state of America. One could also argue, though, that the Man of Steel’s broken state in the Superman trailer is also reflective of the superhero genre’s status heading…
