Superman Trailer - James Gunn Responds About Suit

Welcome back to the channel. I hope you all are having a happy holiday. And so today we're going to talk about James Gunn's response to the, some of the, I guess, pushback you could say that he's getting about the, he's getting about the suit. And he kind of goes into detail a little bit about why the suit looks the way it looks. Now, I can imagine that when you're part of a huge production like this where a lot is riding on it, that you're going to be eager to hear some of that feedback, uh, how the audience is responding, especially, uh, you know, when opening weekend comes out, right? You wanna So from what we're getting, the, the crowd isn't all the way on board with this Superman suit. So we're gonna go into what James Gunn had to say about it, what his response was to this, and, and maybe giving us a little bit more insight why he chose this look, right? So let's see here. Okay, he's talking about David Corn Sweat, I believe, convincing him to keep the trousers, right, to keep the trunks with the suit, because James Gunn didn't want to do the trunks, right? He, he was, you know, you know, uh, against the trunks from the beginning. But they do go into— and I'm not going to read the entire article, I'm just going to highlight some of the things he said, uh, specifically about why he chose that look and, and some interesting details that I didn't even know about that I found, that I found to be quite interesting. So he goes, one of the things David said is that Superman wants kids not to be afraid of him. He's an alien, he's got these incredible powers, He shoots beams out of his eyes and can blow a truck over. He's this incredibly powerful, could be considered a scary individual, and he wants people to like him. He wants to be a symbol of hope and positivity. So he dresses like a professional wrestler. He dresses in a way that makes people unafraid of him, that shows that positivity. That really clicked in for me. Now this is very interesting, um, and let me explain what's going on here. So if we go back to the early creators of Superman, uh, Jerry Shuster, right, and, uh, Jerry Siegel, uh, a lot of the inspiration of the costume of that time, just like we're talking about 1920s, 1930s, were professional wrestlers, right? Professional wrestlers. And what do they have? They have those wrestling trunks. That's interesting enough because I always wonder why these superheroes always wore those trunks over their suit. So that is the, the origins of that, right? Professional wrestlers, right? You know, you have your good wrestlers you can root for, you had your bad wrestlers you can root for. And, uh, I guess wrestling, you can say, goes all the way back to the Greco-Roman times, right? Or I'm sure it goes back further than that. Um, so I found that interesting that this is their concept of, of what was heroic, what heroes would wear, right? These wrestlers. And so Cora Sweat convinced James Gunn to keep the trunks in. Now, uh, I'm, I'm assuming that these trunks are a big no-no for many of, uh, the Superman fans of today, especially the Zack Snyder fan base who believe the Henry Cavill, uh, suit was like the epitome, right? And I like that suit as well. And some of the things I liked about the Henry Cavill, uh, suit was that it kind of had this kind of chainmail-looking material running through it. To me, it did look more alien, right? It had a kind of alien appeal to it. And I think that's kind of important when you're considering utility of a suit. You know, obviously in the Golden Age comics, right around that time when the comic books were written by your Jerry Schusters and Siegels, you know, at that time, the idea of a utility suit you know, probably wasn't on their mind. And so we started to get the spandex and things like that, right? Uh, a lot of the superheroes' costumes, you know, throughout the ages, I would say, weren't very much a utility-based type suit, right? So that's interesting details to note. Now Also, what comes out in the article, what they also express is, um, that James Gunn says he doesn't want fake muscles, right? And so it might interest— it may interest a lot of you to know that a lot of your favorite heroes, television shows, characters, uh, that might have on a fantastical suit, they're wearing, uh, what would be a bodysuit under it. They're wearing a muscle suit under it, right? And, and so it's not their actual physique and form, right? Now, the earlier Superman films, like the Christopher Reeves films, the Brandon Routh films, I'm pretty sure that they were— it was all them, right? There's no padding. These guys put themselves through intense workouts. And even with all those intense workouts, muscles still weren't bulging out the suit, right? So if you want that comic book look, you're probably going to have to use that suit, right? But James Gunn didn't want to go there. Uh, the, the parts he wanted to focus on was the colorfulness of it. Now, looking at the, the Khorne sweatsuit right? This does look like a thick suit. It looks like, uh, it almost looks like something like a military personnel would wear, right? Let's just look, take a kind of look at it, right? So it's kind of padded and it, it, it has a— I would say it kind of has a school rugged— I would say it kind of has a utility to it, right? Um, Yeah, I agree. I don't think the trunks is a good choice, you know, with this suit. I, I don't personally. But also looking back at, you know, the early Christopher Reeve films, uh, where my headspace is with it, uh, I'm more— I'm in a character like Superman, I'm more geared towards them getting his character right, right? Him being likable, him being that Boy Scout type, uh, as was kind of resonates with James Gunn and which he's talking about. He wants you not to be afraid of Superman. He wants those kids to be able to want to come up to Superman, right? If Superman looks dark, if he's picking up cars, if he's destroying cities you know, you're going to scare the kids to death, right? And that's kind of a— a lot of us feel a strike at the Zack Snyder films, which were extremely dark. I mean, they couldn't get much darker than that. There were just things put in that film that didn't need to be there. And I know a lot of Zack Snyder fans won't like what I'm saying. You know, of course he snaps Zod's neck at the end. You know, it, it couldn't go any other way. And, uh, this is just, uh, when it comes to many of the, uh, side of the character Superman, uh, it is devastating. Uh, it is so not the version of Superman we were accustomed to, and certainly not the Superman we wanted. Uh, that doesn't mean, uh, Henry Cavill was a bad actor. Henry Cavill, I'm sure, could have fulfilled that role how it was written either way. But this was a Zack Snyder film, and Zack Snyder films are dark and grainy. And, and, uh, I like Zack Snyder films like The Watchmen. I like when Zack Snyder does what I believe to be Zack Snyder-based films. And Superman was never that, right? It just never was. Uh, and even when I looked at the early trailers, even if you looked at some of the designs, right, of the costumes, and just wasn't, you know, it wasn't— it just wasn't there at all. Um, and so some really like that Superman suit from the Zack Snyder films, you know, and it is aesthetically pleasing, but it is the suit of a badass, right? You know, let's keep it 100 that This Superman that was being created in Man of Steel, this was a badass Superman. This was a dark Superman. This was a Superman created out of the, uh, hysteria of Christopher Nolan's Batman films, right? Christopher Nolan had hit us by storm. We had never seen anything like that before, and everything just kind of had to be If it was going to be a superhero film, it needs to be near that. Now you look at this trailer with James Gunn, it is like night and day, right? This is— this is like a whole different— not only a whole different universe, just a whole different