James Gunn said to replace Henry Cavill as Superman was “unfair” and a “total disaster”

James Gunn admitted to have to tell Henry Cavill That was going to be replaced as Superman was “unfair” and a “total disaster.”

Cavill played the DC character in Man of Steel, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 and Justice League of 2017. He also made a cameo at the end of Black Adam In 2022 before Cavill confirmed that he would no longer be involved in Gunn’s vision of the DC universe.

James Gunn gave details of Henry Cavill’s departure from DC

Now, speaking in the Podcast Happy Sad Confused, Gunn talked about how Cavill gave the news that he would not return to office after becoming a co -president and executive co -director of DC Studios with Peter Safran.

“We were trying to see if we could accept the work in DC Studios, and we were talking to David Zaslav and the entire legal team, and defining our agreements,” he recalled. “And the day we closed the deal, they suddenly announced that Henry had returned.”

“I wonder, what is happening? We already know what the plan is, the plan was to make Superman,” he said, referring to the new 2025 film where David Korenswet Interpret the main role.

Gunn added: “It was a pity, poor thing. So Peter [Safran] And we knew that the right thing was to sit with [Cavill] and talk to him. And we sat down, we talked to him, and it was a gentleman, a great guy. He said: ‘The only thing I ask is to be able to reveal it myself, instead of coming from you.’ “

The director of Galaxy Guardians He continued saying “It was really unfair to him [Cavill] And it was a total annoyance “but there were external influences that “wanted to assume what they wanted to do in DC and were trying to make their way and simply was never part of the equation.”

When asked if it would be “too confusing” to give Cavill another role in the DC cinematographic universe, Gunn replied: “I flatly not. I talked to him that day. I would love to give Henry some role“