The new Superman trailer is going viral with a number of unprecedented views.
Superman’s editor and director, James Gunn, went to Instagram to announce that the film’s trailer has achieved some impressive milestones since its launch, publishing that “Krypto brought us home: with more than 250 million perspectives and one million Social positions, Superman, Superman is officially the maximum -sewed and talked about the story of DC and Warner Bros. enough to give enthusiasts a Christmas proportion to the beginning, and the enthusiasts were too interested in giving back.
This is certainly good news for Warner Bros. who has previously struggled to build a cohesive shared cinematic universe of DC’s characters, prompting them to turn to Gunn and producer Peter Safran to lead the newly-formed DC Studios. The studio needs Superman to be a hit – not only is Superman one of the most recognizable fictional characters of all time, but as this film is kicking off the rebooted franchise, all of the pressure is on it to succeed. Luckily, the trailer’s large number of views and the overall positive response to it are certainly assuaging Warner Bros. executives’ fears.
The Superman trailer stayed true to the iconography of the source material, giving fans exactly what they expect from a movie about the Big Blue Boy Scout – Superman soaring majestically through the sky, his mild-mannered alter ego working at the Daily Planet, bombastic fight scenes, larger than life villains, and so much more. It’s almost as if Gunn treated the comic books as storyboards, so faithful are the cinematic images to the page.
However, Gunn has surpassed himself, because he not only brought us to a Superman who honors his quadruple origins, but also brought to a multitude of other DC characters with a mixture, adding the Superman Kyrpto Dog, Michael Holt / Mister Terrific, Rex Mason, Rex Mason / Metamorpho, Guy Gardner / Green Lantern, Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl and even more. There are even more characters from the comics shown that they seem in the film that did not appear in the band’s announcement, enthusiasts will look ahead for even more revelations. Hopefully Gunn has not overloaded the new faces film in his attempt to lay the foundations of what promises to be a flourishing franchise.
One of the more fascinating changes that has been made to the film since it was first announced was dropping the “Legacy” from its title.
“One of the things was, I thought maybe the title … had a looking back feeling about it, and this isn’t about looking back, this is about looking forwar,” the filmmaker told ComicBook. “When you see the movie, you’ll understand where ‘Legacy’ comes from because it is, again, it’s about Clark and his relationship to the script … and whose legacy is he, really? And so it’s about that. But I think as a title … it felt too looking back.”
Superman opens in theaters July 11, 2025.