Superman director James Gunn recalled the ‘terrible’ way Henry Cavill was fired from his role as iconic superhero, Clark Kent
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Superman director James Gunn revealed the “terrible” way Henry Cavill was fired from his role as the iconic superhero. The Scooby Doo director was hired by Warner Bros to oversee the studio’s DC movies after a series of failed projects, and one of his first jobs was to hire a new actor to take on the role of Clark Kent.
However, Warner Bros rashly told Henry he would come back as the beloved comic book character, leaving James the job of telling him he was actually fired. During his appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Guardians of the Galaxy director James said Henry was treated “unfairly” by the studio.
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“It’s terrible – believe it or not, the day we were dealing with trying to figure out if we could take the job at DC Studios, the day the deal closed, all of a sudden, they were announcing that Henry was back,” he explained.
“I was like, ‘What is going on? We know what the plan is. The plan was to come in and do Superman. It was really unfair to him and a total bummer.”
James, whose Superman reboot was recently released, said: “There was a vacuum at the time and a lot of people had a take on what they wanted to do at DC and they were trying to force their way and it was just never part of the equation.
“We came in, and that was really unfortunate. I’m like, ‘This poor guy.’” Thankfully, Henry took the difficult news like an “absolute gentleman”, as James praised the actor.
“He said, the only thing I ask is that I’m able to reveal it myself as opposed to coming from you guys.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s a class act’,” James added before saying he wants to work with Henry in a DC film in the future.
The current Clark Kent is David Corenswet, who recently admitted he tried to think of reasons not to take on the iconic role. In a recent interview, David revealed there was a moment he was hesitant about taking the role.
“A role like Superman seems like something that everybody would want, and that’s not true. There are some people who wouldn’t want that role and who would, if given the opportunity, say no. I am obviously not one of those people,” he told GQ Hype.
“But I certainly tried to think of reasons not to. Ultimately, what I landed on for myself was, if this is the only role I get to play for the rest of my life, and that means whether I get to play it once or get to play it 10 times, would I still say yes? And the answer was yes.”
During the same interview, director James discussed the box office pressure on the movie and said the movie “isn’t the riskiest endeavour in the world”.
It was reported online that the movie would need to earn $700 million minimum to be successful, but James called the reports “just complete and utter nonsense”.
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