Why can’t the industry get Superman right? Here’s why

Christopher Reeve left a mark on the Man of Steel and pop culture writ large.

It’s hard to make a Boy Scout -like hero pop off the screen in our cynical age.

Antiheroes are all the rage in Tinsel Town , from Tony Soprano to the misfit warriors of “Thunderbolts

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The director spoke to the character’s innate goodness in a late 2024 interview that suggests a Reeve-like take on the material.

Gunn teased Superman 's core strength as a character in the aforementioned interview, another tease that he might be channeling the Reeve model.

We could use a unifying hero like Superman at this point in American culture.