Henry Cavill dropped as Superman after James Gunn announces new movie - The Guardian

Guardians of the Galaxy manager and DC Studios’ caller co-chairman, James Gunn, is penning a Superman movie that won’t impact the histrion Henry Cavill, who said it was “not the easiest news” aft helium lone precocious announced that helium would beryllium returning to the role.

The caller Superman movie penned by Gunn volition instrumentality the quality successful a antithetic absorption and absorption connected the superhero’s younger years. The announcement comes amid momentous alteration astatine DC Studios and genitor institution Warner Brothers, which has been slashing scores of projects to chopped costs aft merging with Discovery, Inc.

Cavill has played Superman since the 2013 movie Man of Steel and past appeared successful the relation successful a cameo successful Black Adam earlier this year. In October, aft resigning from the pb relation successful Netflix amusement The Witcher, helium announced helium would beryllium returning to play Superman again.

On Wednesday, Cavill wrote connected Instagram that Gunn and his co-chair, Peter Safran, had met with him to present the news.

“I will, aft all, not beryllium returning arsenic Superman,” Cavill wrote. “After being told by the workplace to denote my instrumentality backmost successful October, anterior to their hire, this quality isn’t the easiest, but that’s life. The changing of the defender is thing that happens. I respect that. James and Peter person a beingness to build. I privation them and each progressive with the caller beingness the champion of luck, and the happiest of fortunes.”

Fans mightiness privation to “mourn for a bit”, helium wrote, but “Superman is inactive around”.

“My crook to deterioration the cape has passed, but what Superman stands for ne'er will. It’s been a amusive thrust with you all, onwards and upwards.”

Gunn’s movie volition reportedly absorption connected the younger years of the hero, during his years posing arsenic Daily Planet newsman Clark Kent, with insiders telling the Hollywood Reporter that Gunn could perchance nonstop the movie arsenic good arsenic penning it.

“Peter & I person a DC slate acceptable to go, which we couldn’t beryllium much over-the-moon about; we’ll beryllium capable to stock immoderate breathtaking accusation astir our archetypal projects astatine the opening of the caller year,” Gunn wrote connected Twitter connected Wednesday. “Among those connected the slate is Superman. In the archetypal stages, our communicative volition beryllium focusing connected an earlier portion of Superman’s life, truthful the quality volition not beryllium played by Henry Cavill. But we conscionable had a large gathering with Henry and we’re large fans and we talked astir a fig of breathtaking possibilities to enactment unneurotic successful the future.”

Cavill’s announcement that helium would instrumentality arsenic Superman was reportedly signed disconnected by Warner Bros, earlier Gunn and Safran assumed their roles astatine DC Studios connected 1 November. Just six days earlier that, Cavill had said successful an interview that helium was looking guardant to playing an “enormously joyful” Superman and that helium was “very excited” astir Gunn being hired.

On Tuesday it was revealed that DC Studios’ Wonder Woman manager Patty Jenkins would nary longer beryllium moving connected a third movie successful the franchise. In effect to reports, she denied quitting, penning successful a lengthy unfastened letter: “I ne'er walked away. I was unfastened to considering thing asked of me. It was my knowing determination was thing I could bash to determination thing guardant astatine this time.”

The Hollywood Reporter claims that Gunn and Safran person besides met with Batman histrion Ben Affleck to interval the thought of him directing for them successful the future.

A Black Superman movie written by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and produced by JJ Abrams is reportedly inactive going ahead, and volition not beryllium impacted by Gunn’s film.

Gunn has agelong been successful the moving to marque a Superman film: successful 2018, erstwhile Gunn near Marvel Studios for DC erstwhile he was temporarily fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, then-Warners brag Toby Emmerich pushed for Gunn to instrumentality connected Superman. Gunn wrote and directed The Suicide Squad instead.