Superman is part of the DC Universe, which is a shared setting of superhero characters owned by DC Comics, and consequently he frequently appears in stories alongside the likes of Batman, Wonder Woman, and others.
Well-known DC Comics characters include Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern and Captain Marvel. Marvel Comics feature famous characters like Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, Wolverine, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four and Captain America.
Superman is an American superhero created for DC Comics by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. Superman first appeared in 1938, in Action Comics no. 1.
DC Studios (formerly known as DC Films) is an American film, television, and animation studio that is a division of Warner Bros., which is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
But there are limits to what someone can do with public domain characters. For one thing, the character can only be used as it existed 95 years earlier. Let's take Superman, for example, who first appeared in DC's Action Comics #1 in 1938 and enters the public domain in 2033.
1938 also saw two new agreements between DC Comics and Siegel and Shuster. For $130, in what was characterized as an “employment agreement,” the two creators acknowledged DC as the “exclusive owner” of existing strips as well as Superman, worldwide.
Jon Peters is a longtime Hollywood movie producer with a bad reputation of interfering with movies and sexual assault. He bought the rights to the Superman movie franchise from Warner Bros. in the early 90s, and it has paid off in his later years.
Siegel never applied for termination, but his heirs did after his death. On April 3, 1997, Joanne Siegel and Laura Siegel Larson served DC Comics a termination notice for Superman which became effective on April 16, 1999. The Siegel heirs now owned 50% of Superman, the other half remaining with DC Comics. Warner Bros.
In a contract dated 1 March 1938, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster gave away the copyright to Superman to their employer, DC Comics (then known as Detective Comics, Inc.) prior to Superman's first publication in April.
On the other, DC Studios wanted a younger actor for the James Gunn-led DC Universe relaunch. Apparently, Cavill didn't fit Gunn's plans. From the outside, it looks more like DC Studios didn't want Cavill as Clark Kent anymore than Cavill leaving the role of Superman on his own.
Even though Superman is often considered the most powerful character in the DC Universe, Shazam definitely comes close, and he can even beat the Man of Steel. And with a massive power upgrade, there's no question that Shazam can meet Superman blow for blow—despite the upgrade's terrible side effects.
Although the final victor of the battles is Marvel, the new character of Access, a man capable of traversing between the two universes, infuses Batman and Captain America each with fragments of their respective universes before the Spectre and the Living Tribunal attempt to create a compromise by fusing the two ...
Absorbing the second-highest publisher would violate anti-trust laws, effectively making the entire industry a monopoly. Not wanting a legal mess, Marvel pulled the plug on the DC licensing deal.
Jacob Elordi won't be wearing a red cape anytime soon. The 26-year-old revealed in a new interview that he was asked to read for the part of Superman, which he promptly turned down.
“Henry was never cast. He was in a cameo, and that was the end of his story.” Indeed, like many of the vaunted promises Dwayne Johnson made while promoting Black Adam, the return of Cavill's Superman proved to be empty hype. “A lot of people made assumptions which weren't true,” continued Gunn.
DC bosses Peter Safran and James Gunn tonight officially made known their plans for their first movie under their regime: It's Superman, a script that the latter is currently writing about the Man of Steel's early days.
The new Superman film (titled: Superman: Legacy) will be directed by the new head of DC Films James Gunn. “I initially said no because I didn't have a way in that felt unique and fun and emotional that gave Superman the dignity he deserved,” Gunn wrote on Twitter.
The Superman of the 853rd Century survived by becoming the living extension of the Sun. He left the Earth somewhere in the late 21st Century when everyone he cared about died. He traversed the entire DCU, going beyond time and space, and has been said to have reached as far as Heaven and Hell themselves.
The folks at Warner Bros Discovery, or more precisely the folks at newly christened DC Films called DC Studios, thought it best to abandon Henry Cavill's Superman. The reason for the recasting is that filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran are looking for a younger Superman in their burgeoning DC Universe.
Copyright law in the United States dictates that works published after the 95th year of publication will no longer be affected by copyright. This means that characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Mickey Mouse, Captain America, and Batman will be entering the public domain within the next 15 years.
Two months later, Gunn announced that Cavill would actually not be Superman in the new DC Universe as he was writing a new Man of Steel movie centered on a younger iteration of the superhero. That film, “Superman: Legacy,” is scheduled for a 2025 release date.
