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James Gunn Reveals the Surprising Jor-El Casting for ‘Superman’

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Superman

During a recent interview with Jake’s Takes (via Comic Book), James Gunn revealed Bradley Cooper plays Jor-El in Superman.

Really, Bradley’s just doing me a favor. He’s a friend. We’ve stayed in close contact since the Guardians movies, and I admire him greatly as an actor and as a director. I just said, ‘Hey, will you do me a favor? Come down, go to England, we’re going to shoot you in a 3D environment, make a hologram of you, and you can play Jor-El. He was like, ‘Okay.’

During another recent interview with Screen Rant, James Gunn also stated his Superman is “about a person who thinks of himself in a certain way, finds out that isn’t true, and has to recontextualize who he is in the face of that.”

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