New DC Boss James Gunn Shoots Down A Rumor About, Uh, James Gunn’s Choice For The New Superman

Fan casting has been around forever. After all, that’s how The Muppets get most of their gigs. But it has been pretty common lately! What’s even stranger is that through the power of social media, some of these ideas actually make it to those in charge and end up working. Sometimes.

But other times, rumors will fly on Twitter paired with a subpar fan edit, which is all fun and games until the actual decision-makers hop online to tell everyone that they are wrong. That actually seems to happen a lot, too.

The latest rumor to flood the internet is that Euphoria star Jacob Elordi is that in the running to play Superman in the new wave of DC movies. Elordi would be replacing Henry Cavill, who starred in The Witcher, before being fan cast in House of the Dragon, and then left The Witcher for Superman before exiting that as well. So… there is a lot going on here.

None of that matters, though, because James Gunn says that they are a long way from casting anyone in the role. In response to a viral tweet, Gunn said that the scripts need to be finished before there are any cast announcements.