James Gunn’s reboot of the DCU is just beginning Superman comes in 2025, but he said shooting on the film has already been completed to give the teams involved as much time as possible to perfect the finished look and especially the quality of the visual effects. The director’s comments were in response to growing concerns about terrible special effects in blockbuster films, as CGI artists be pushed to breaking point.
“That is why we Superman a year before the release and why they have been working hard on many shots for months,” Gunn posted on Threads on August 18. “That’s why we start editing while we’re shooting. That’s why I prepare so intensively and why we only shoot finished scripts. And Supergirlthat I don’t direct is handled the same way. I can’t praise the VFX artists enough for helping us create magic.”
The Guardians of the Galaxy And Suicide Squad The writer and director was hired by Warner Bros. in 2022 to rebuild his DC universe on the big screen, and Superman: Legacywhich will be released on July 11, 2025, is the first project in this endeavor. The first image released from this film, which was “shot on set by Jess Miglio and created entirely in camera,” shows the title character in an apartment while a giant purple laser fires in the background. It raises all sorts of questions among some fans about the look and artistic direction of the film, and leaked photos from July continued to sow skepticism.
The recent hype surrounding big-budget blockbusters in cinemas and new content from streaming platforms has led to an over-reliance on green screens and post-production effects, which, in addition to VFX houses are overtaxing themselveslook just awful. There was no better proof of this than last year’s The Flashthe last breath of a DCU before Gunn, which sometimes looked downright funnySome fans criticized the effects because they looked like they were copied from a mid-budget video game.
“If you do some research, you’ll see that my films have always taken a different approach and I’ve always given my VFX artists and collaborators the time to do their job properly and the respect they deserve,” Gunn wrote over the weekend. “And the quality of the VFX in these films is consistently great because of that (and because my friends at Weta and Framestore and ILM and others are incredibly talented).”
