TK Easter Eggs DC Fans Need to Know

TK Easter Eggs DC Fans Need to Know

The primary trailer for writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman,” which premiered on Thursday morning, marks the official debut of the brand new Man of Metal as performed by David Corenswet, in addition to the love of Superman’s life, Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), and Superman’s archenemy, Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult). 

Talking with Selection after a particular preview of the trailer on the Warner Bros. lot on Dec. 17, Corenswet stated the chance to lastly showcase what he’d been engaged on for over a 12 months and a half was “the very best factor ever,” however he shrugged when requested what it was prefer to see himself as Superman with an viewers for the primary time.

“I simply disassociate,” Corenswet stated. “It’s not me up there. It’s Superman. It’s Clark Kent. What’s cool is seeing all of your pals up there.”

He’s not simply speaking about Brosnahan and Hoult, both. When Gunn and his fellow DC Studios co-chief Peter Safran first introduced their slate in January 2023, they made clear that their reboot of Superman would additionally formally reboot the DC Universe as a totally unified artistic endeavor that may seize the wealthy breadth of characters established over practically 90 years throughout the wider DC Comics. (The animated DC sequence “Creature Commandos,” which is at present streaming on Max, is supposed to be a “delicate intro” to the DCU — an appetizer to “Superman’s” principal course.) 

In follow, that signifies that for the primary time in live-action, the “Superman” film franchise is launching in the identical cinematic universe as dozens upon dozens of metahumans and super-powered creatures that vary from well-known in their very own proper to completely obscure to most people. Think about Christopher Reeve’s Superman flying within the first “Superman” film subsequent to Martian Manhunter, Hawkman and Blue Beetle — or Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark preventing within the first “Iron Man” film alongside Physician Unusual, Shang-Chi and Wanda Maximoff. The filmmakers and studios behind these earlier comedian ebook motion pictures believed audiences might solely deal with one superhero at a time. However because of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, filmgoers have been conditioned to simply accept a film during which a large number of superheroes occupy the display screen on the similar time.

And good gravy, are there are numerous them within the first take a look at Gunn’s new movie. Right here’s an inventory of 17 DC characters and Easters eggs — from Superman’s canine to Krypto to Stagg Industries — tucked contained in the “Superman” trailer.