James Gunn announces next Superman movie and release date

Gunn has titled the follow-up, ‘Man of Tomorrow’

James Gunn has announced the next film in his Superman saga just two months after the first, starring David Coronswet as the Man of Steel, arrived in theaters.

“Man of Tomorrow. In theatres July 9, 2027,” the DC Studios co-CEO shared on X Wednesday.

Gunn accompanied the caption with a cartoon image of Superman next to his nemesis, Lex Luthor, wearing a green and purple armored suit.

In the DC comics, Luthor (played by Nicholas Hoult in the film) designs the suit so he can battle Superman — though it has never been re-created in live-action form.

Superman earned more than $611 million at the worldwide box office following its July release, making it the highest-grossing superhero film of the year.

Man of Tomorrow will follow the 2026 release of DC’s Supergirl starring Milly Alcock, and it will debut before Matt Reeves’s The Batman Part II, which is currently slated for October 1, 2027.

Back in July, Gunn clarified that his next Superman film would not be an explicit “sequel” to the first.

“Superman has a major role. It’s not Superman 2,” the filmmaker responded to a fan who asked about the next film he was working on.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gunn was asked if he was working on a sequel, to which he replied, “What I’m working on is in some way… I mean, yes, yes, yes, yes. But is it a straight-up Superman sequel? I would not say necessarily.”

The new Superman iteration, which also starred Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, was the subject of a political spat before its release after Gunn claimed that it was an immigrant story.

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The cast was rounded out by Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific, Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner, and Gabriela de Faría as The Engineer.

“James Gunn’s Superman reboot will make you believe in superhero movies again,” The Independent’s Clarrisse Loughrey declared in her four-star review at the time.

“Superman is a manifesto for a franchise. It had no other choice but to be. The weight of expectation is so heavy at this point that even the audience might feel a little tension in their shoulders as they shuffle in to take their seats,” she added. “[It] doesn’t just serve as a referendum for superhero films but for the cinematic future of DC as a whole.”