James Gunn Reveals His Lightbulb Second Whereas Writing ‘Superman’

James Gunn certain loves animals. We see this each week on social media because the DC Studios president posts photographs of his pets but in addition in his filmmaking. It was famously the idea of bringing a raccoon to life that gave Gunn the boldness to sort out Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel. And, together with his upcoming movie Superman, he discovered inspiration in a really comparable method.

“It was simply tough to determine the place I used to be going to return from with Superman,” Gunn stated speaking to io9 in Los Angeles final week. “And I believe that it actually began with my canine in a variety of methods. The idea of putting in Krypto, I believe, was the enjoyable half for me, as a result of that was one thing that we hadn’t actually seen in a Superman film.”

As soon as Gunn had the idea to include the superpowered canine, which has existed in DC Comics for 70 years, every thing clicked. “We’re at all times coming in [to Superman] on the spaceship crash lands, after which we see his entire household, and we’ve seen the start a bunch of instances,” Gunn stated. “However this isn’t that. We’ve even seen a variety of tales which are after he’s married and what that life is like. However I needed to see him in a distinct piece of his life, and I additionally needed to convey the enjoyment that I felt studying DC Comics as a child into the film, and coming into DC Comics and seeing it wasn’t solely Superman and his mother and father and the farm and different individuals. It was flying canines and kaiju and robots and monsters and magic and sorcery and all these different issues. And I needed to convey that magical world to films.”

Which all turns into potential while you understand that Superman, on this universe and movie, has a dog. Superman opens in theaters July 11 and we’ll have extra quickly.

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