A new report details the high expectations from Warner Bros. Discovery for James Gunn’s new Superman movie and the larger DC Universe. 2025 marks the year of the Man of Steel’s return to the big screen with Gunn’s Superman movie set to arrive this summer. Since Superman will set the foundation for the rest of the DCU, there are a lot of expectations for how the David Corenswet-starring film will perform across the world.
According to Puck, experts are claiming that Warner Bros. Discovery is extremely dependent on Superman’s performance through DC Studios. In a new report from Puck, the word is that the movie “has now taken on almost incalculable importance to Warner Bros. Discovery. If Warners can’t finally make the DC franchise work, there is genuine fear that the studio will go the way of Fox, which was swallowed by Disney in 2019.” According to a Warner Bros.