Since Jameseims Gunn's "Superman" is finally ready to hit theaters, there is probably a fascinating book for all (or two) to write about the long and liquidation of the Warner Bros. saga, trying to make his leader of DC in recent years. In a twist that feels predetermined to become a response to the game during the Trivia bar, Henry Caville's escape as "steel man" has ended the sequel-the bait of the end of "Black Adam". But obviously, it should never have been the final game. Actually the problem is that there was almost Too much Instructions for downloading the character. Before Dwayne Nsonson he tried infamously and failed to change "the hierarchy of power in the DC Universe", "There were Expansive, complex and definitely dark plans of Zack Snyder for Superman. However, as soon as it collapsed, WB/DC could turn to a very different franchise director to resurrect the big blue boy scout ... But unfortunately, it shouldn't have been.

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While Christopher McCarari is currently enjoying a well-earned round of the heels of the "Mission: The Impossible Calculation", the previous fork on the road could have brought multi-pitcher after a much more comic-y trail. We have known since the posting of "Mission: Impossible-Fallout" that McCari was once interested in scripting a "steel man" sequel to Kaville (who, of course, stole the show in "Fallout" with his mustache-twin, hand-handed negatives). The director "Mission: Impossible" even went so far as to set his concept for the WB film, along with the written proposal for related production "Green Lantern".

None of this has happened so far, clear, but McCari now opens up what it could have been.

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Christopher McCari and Tom Cruise are affected by the glitter of the glitter of The eighth (and perhaps the final) installment of the film series "Mission: Impossible" with "Final Calculation", " But it was just a matter of time before the press tour returned to return the conversation in the sphere of superheroes. McCarari is certainly not alien to the subject. We have previously covered his interest in the proposed "Man of Steel 2" And the film "Green Lantern" back in 2018, although he had some good reasons not to devote himself to such a venture at the time. Now, he finally sheds light on what his original "steel man" sequel, how the green lantern project has burst and will both gather.

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While you appear on Oshosh Horowitz's "Happy Sad Sad Confused"McCariri was asked how he would leave his stamp on DC. Originally playing who, he replied well: "I will never say. I will never say, but a boy, well, was good. It was good." No one left the audience hanging, he continued to explain that he was approaching the DC universe through the Green Lantern corpus and their rings imposed on the power-other DC property that suffered his fair share of questions on the big screen over the years. According to McCari, he managed to find the perfect entry point:

"The green lantern was what came to me. And Green Lantern is difficult. It's very difficult - power is very challenging. I fired it, and it was fun to see it learn how to use that power and give that power flaw, so it wasn't pure invincibility. And it was all there (...) The battery, and that may expire in awkward times.

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So what about Superman? The Jamesiyes Gunn is almost ready to discover his new man's takeover of steel (David Corenvet) and The "Green Lantern" corpus (which houses Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner)But once there was an opportunity for Christopher McCarari to beat him to the two points. Later in the podcast, McCari continued to describe as a reunion and Green Lantern and Superman ended up securing his "light" moment. Referring to the challenge of making Notorously tricky the Green Lantern Clothes in live-actionMcCarari explained why this is exactly the wrong way of thinking:

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I realized, don't worry about the suit, take care of the character. And how to give it tension and moisturize that character? Also, how do you do it with Superman? And Henry (Cavill) took it, and I suddenly realized how these two characters had incredible similarities, which also allowed for an incredible conflict and an incredible resolution to expand the universe. "

McCarari alludes to the talks he had with a cavalry on the set "Mission: Impossible - A consequence" (through a comic) And how they would eventually apply in a full -fledged film, exploring all these problems at once. As if it weren't enough to reduce our appetites for a movie that would never happen, the director continued to tease that the introductory sequence for his "Superman" flick ... and would have been cut from the same cloth as Disney/Pixar's "UP":

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"But I'll tell you, the first five minutes of my movie" Superman ", what was - you remember Pixar's" UP ", a sequence without dialogue that covered that character (motivations) ... The first five minutes of the movie (" Superman ") was setting up, after which you knew exactly what he did and what he did. Five minutes, the scale of the film would have been absolutely remarkable. "

You know what? I would like to live in the alternative universe where this blockbuster, written and Maybe Directed by McCari, it actually happened. The ban on this, however, where the writer/director completes a series of "Mission: Mission: Impossible" with Tom Cruise is not that bad.

Gun's "Superman" hits theaters July 11, 2025.