It’s nearly time to search for once more. A brand new trailer for James Gunn’s Superman film will likely be launched very quickly, and I could not be extra excited to see extra of considered one of this 12 months’s most anticipated new films.
As confirmed by Gunn on social media (see beneath), the DC Universe (DCU) movie’s official trailer will make its debut this Wednesday (May 14). The new teaser is predicted to be proven throughout Warner Bros’ Upfronts 2025 presentation first earlier than being launched on-line instantly after.
Story spoilers however, there’s loads of new footage that Gunn might tease in Superman‘s subsequent trailer. The DCU Chapter One flick reportedly has a runtime of round two and a half hours, so we ought to be handled to plenty of new pictures to pore over and theorize about.
Ahead of its launch, listed below are three issues I need to see, plus one thing I believe ought to be prevented in Superman‘s official trailer.
1. Speak up
The first trailer for Gunn’s Superman film, which arrived final December, was filled with nice moments. However, except for a few strains uttered by David Corenswet, who performs Clark Kent/the titular Kryptonian, we did not hear any of the movie’s different solid members communicate.
Superman‘s subsequent teaser ought to rectify this. Its preliminary batch of footage was additionally about organising the tone and vibe that Gunn is aiming for together with his newest characteristic flick.
With that firmly established now, it is time that we heard what the likes of Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor sound like, together with whether or not they’ve imbued their takes on these iconic characters with accents we’d not have anticipated.
2. Less Superman, extra Clark Kent
Surprising nobody, the primary Superman teaser trailer largely comprised clips of Clark Kent performing superhero acts. We all need to see the eponymous hero doing good, in spite of everything.
That mentioned, a number of the finest Superman tales, literary or in any other case, have explored his civilian life as a lot as his heroic deeds. So, I’d prefer to see the movie’s subsequent spherical of footage present us extra of Clark’s life exterior of his superhero exploits.
The first trailer steered Gunn will lean into that on a regular basis side of the character, together with Clark’s day job as a roving reporter for the Daily Planet newspaper and spending time at house together with his adoptive human dad and mom. However, it is unclear how a lot of his civilian life will likely be examined in Superman, so some new footage of this would not go amiss in its subsequent trailer.
3. Justice for the Justice League International
Ahead of the primary trailer’s launch, we would seen how a few of Supes’ fellow heroes would look on this flick. Indeed, leaked pictures of Edi Gathegi’s Mister Terrific final June had been adopted by first-look snaps of Isabela Merced’s Hawkgirl and Nathan Fillion’s Hal Jordan/Green Lantern every week or so later.
Superman‘s inaugural trailer, although, was fairly mild on giving us higher seems to be at these characters and one other superpowered being in Anthony Carrigan’s Metamorpho. In reality, aside from a few blink and you may miss it pictures, they had been largely absent from mentioned trailer.
With this quartet set to play supporting roles – we’re undecided how a lot they’re going to seem, thoughts you – in Superman, it will be good if the film’s subsequent trailer confirmed extra of them in motion and/or conversing with the Man of Steel himself. I definitely anticipate there to be some melodrama between this corporately managed super-team and Supes, so give us a style of what that’ll seem like, please, Mister Gunn.
4. More Krypto
Season 1 of Creature Commandos might need been the primary DCU challenge to be launched, however Superman is being positioned because the challenge that formally kickstarts the DCU when it is launched this July.
Gunn and firm are labeling the build-up to the movie’s launch because the ‘Summer of Superman’, too. But, whereas the Son of Krypton is the film’s lead, there isn’t any denying that he was (and certain will proceed to be) upstaged by his boisterous canine companion Krypto between now and launch day.
We’ve recognized that Krypto would seem in Superman since leaked pictures of Mister Terrific monitoring him down surfaced in July 2024. Krypto has gained everybody’s hearts since then, with Kent’s most loyal buddy stealing the present in Superman’s first trailer and newest clip that exposed a jaw-dropping have a look at the Fortress of Solitude.
Clearly, Krypto is considered one of Superman‘s most marketable belongings, so it is smart to place him entrance and heart of any and all promotional supplies forward of the movie’s launch. I absolutely anticipate, then, to see extra of the unruly, overexcitable pup when trailer #2 drops on-line.
As I discussed earlier, Superman will seemingly clock in at round 150 minutes when it flies into theaters in lower than two months’ time. Sure, its runtime might change between every now and then as Gunn locks in its closing lower, however let’s not fear ourselves about that proper now.
If probably the greatest superhero films (doubtlessly, anyway) of 2025 is that lengthy, its newest trailer is a first-rate alternative to indicate us loads of new, non-spoiler-filled footage. It’s my hope, then, that trailer #2 will not include any prior clips or sequences we have seen in its predecessor or different advertising supplies.
That mentioned, I anticipate a shot or two will likely be reused from the primary trailer. It’s a rarity for brand spanking new teasers to be made up of fully new footage we’ve not seen earlier than, however it will make for a refreshing change if Superman‘s newest trailer did not rehash footage from its forebear. You’ve obtained loads of footage at your disposal, Mister Gunn, so use it!
Superman takes flight in theaters worldwide on Friday, July 11.
