Gunn’s most impressive idea is not to start his story first, but to start somewhere in the middle, as if this was the third or fourth film in the series. When he first met Superman, played by the appropriately handsome and healthy David Collen Sweatt, he has already protected Matropolis from the director for three years. He has already dated a colleague who won his go-to team at the Daily Planet newspaper Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), and he is disgusted with already fanatic Bhald billionaire Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult). What’s even more unusual for Superman’s franchise starter is that he’s not the only superhuman in the world, or “Metafman.” While the other A-listers in DC – Wonder Woman, Batman, Flash, Aquaman – are clearly saved for their own films, Superman is helped and hampered by a gang of ethically ambiguous justice, made up of arrogant Green Lanterns (Nathan Fillion).
Source: BBC Culture – www.bbc.com
