It Feels More Comic Book-y

Kevin Smith, a huge comic fan and director in his own right, recently gave his two cents regarding James Gunn’s creative vision for Superman, noting its more comic-accurate tone. Releasing July 11, 2025, the film stars David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman, as well as Rachel Brosnahan, Edi Gathegi, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Maria Gabriela de Faria, and Nicholas Hoult. It will follow a younger Superman balancing his day job as a Daily Planet reporter with his super-heroics.

Per Collider, Smith had a simple answer as to why Superman’s marketing has clicked with him: “It feels more comic book-y is what it is.” The Dogma director continued: “I mean, number one, putting his trunks on the outside again is just charming, and including the dog is not something we’ve seen over the course of the last 10 years, and I think that’s such a smart choice, man. Unless they hurt that f—ing dog, which, then can also be a strong choice, dramatically speaking. But it just looks so charming.”

Interestingly, Smith also weighed in on an interesting cultural phenomenon regarding Batman and Superman. He explained:

Whether Batman or Superman is ascendant and dominant in the culture has everything to do with where we are as a country. So, when times are good for Americans and prosperous, oddly enough, Batman is the dominant character because Batman is a dark fantasy about everything going wrong. … And then the flip theory of that is Superman is ascendant whenever the country is doing poorly or it needs help, and that’s when that character plays strongest. So, it would feel like based on that, like Superman, the stage is set for that movie to make so much f—ing money. People wanna hope right now. People just want to believe in a f—ing thing, man.

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