The new trailer for James Gunn’s Superman is incredible, but fans have pointed out one big similarity to Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman.
This July, after its soft-launch with Creature Commandos, Gunn’s DCU will officially begin with Superman, the first big-screen effort of a rebooted (and hopefully revived) franchise.
Unlike Man of Steel, Superman isn’t an origin story for the titular superhero. Instead, it will drop viewers into an established world of gods, monsters, and everyone in between – whether that’s Guy Gardner’s Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Metamorpho, or his most iconic nemesis, Lex Luthor.
It’s a clear tonal and visual shift from the SnyderVerse, but the new film is carrying on one of the biggest conflicts of BvS: Superman and the politics of being a superhero.
Superman and Batman v Superman have a very similar idea
The new trailer opens with Lois Lane interviewing Superman – and, crucially, not Clark Kent.
“Recently you’ve come under a lot of fire… today the Secretary of Defense said he was going to look into your actions,” she says, and Superman doesn’t understand what the problem is, given he stopped a war.
“In effect, you illegally entered a country… did you consult with the president?” Lois asks. “I would question myself in the same situation and consider the consequences.”
Later in the trailer, Lex Luthor complains that he’s “somehow become the focal point of the entire world’s conversation.”
If that sounds familiar, it’s because Batman v Superman covers similar ground. In Snyder’s film, Superman is summoned before Congress after his destructive fight against Zod in Metropolis, and Lex doesn’t believe Superman can be a genuine force for good. “If God is all powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He’s all good then He cannot be all powerful,” he says.
That isn’t to say Superman copied BvS, nor did Snyder invent the concept of a hero being held accountable by the government. Nevertheless, it’s something fans have picked up on.
“Not to be that guy but BvS is literally all about this,” one user tweeted. “You just need to get through the first 30 seconds of this trailer to realize this is just bootleg BvS,” another wrote.
“Mind you every Snyder DC film features the titular hero in conflict with the American military industrial complex,” a third posted. “Guy who thinks Batman v Superman invented Superman facing politics,” another joked in response to someone describing Superman as having a “spoon-feeding script.”
“What if James Gunn never saw Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman and accidentally made the same movie with the same themes?” a fifth wrote.
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