Ever since James Gunn confirmed the next major movie in the DCU would be Man of Tomorrow, fans have been dizzy with the potential for what the Superman sequel film will end up being. There are only a few things confirmed about the upcoming movie: Gunn is writing and directing it, the film will premiere on July 9, 2027, David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult are reprising their roles, and the pair are teaming up to take on a bigger threat. Now, Gunn has taken to social media with another major tease for Man of Tomorrow, and it may be pointing toward a major fan theory being correct.
Since Man of Tomorrow was revealed to the world, and its tease of a Superman/Lex Luthor team-up was confirmed, the threat that would bring these two characters together has been a hot topic of discussion. One of the biggest assumptions by DC fans is that this threat would end up being none other than Brainiac, one of the biggest Superman villains that has never appeared in a live-action feature film. James Gunn just fanned those flames in a big way.
As he is want to do, Gunn made an unprompted post on social media that has everyone scrambling. Earlier Monday morning, Gunn revealed a photo of the title page for the screenplay of Man of Tomorrow. He captioned the image with three emojis, a devil, a handshake, and an angel, all presumably in reference to Lex Luthor and Superman teaming up. He followed it with the hashtag “#MoT” and the release date “7.9.27.” The image itself is the big tease though as the title page has all the expected text notations, but also an image: a bisected diagram of the human brain.
#MoT 7.9.27 pic.twitter.com/aIKSFpaHff
As expected, Gunn just put jet fuel on the Brainiac fires and the comments immediately went to one place. “Oh my god. It’s finally time,” wrote one reply with a gif of Brainiac. Others called for the casting of Giancarlo Esposito and even Peter Capaldi for the character. One user however, took the tease and the film’s title to a major extreme, one that could be right, writing: “Lex things HE is the ‘man of tomorrow’, the world thinks Superman is the ‘man of tomorrow’, and they both face against the ultimate evolution of that idea of a ‘man of tomorrow’. But who will really end the story as the true Man of Tomorrow?”
The timing on this is, of course, a curious thing. It’s unclear why Gunn did this, but the filmmaker and DC Studios co-president has previously made preemptive reveals like this when the potential for the news to make its way out there has made itself clear. That, or Gunn is just being cheeky, knowing full well that a photo of a script page will be enough to keep the hype flames around this sequel really buzzing.
With Man of Tomorrow already circled on the calendar for July of 2027, the ball is fully rolling on the upcoming DCU movie. Production will no doubt start sometime in 2026, which means we’ll likely continue to be drip-fed teases like this for the foreseeable future. One thing fans can cling to though is that casting will need to get underway at some point, meaning the reveal of who the DCU’s next big villain is will no doubt be around the around.
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