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James Gunn shrugs off 'jerks' offended by “Superman”'s 'immigrant' story: 'Screw them
Yahoo Entertainment ^ | Mon, July 7, 2025 | Mekishana Pierre

Posted on 07/07/2025 7:56:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

James Gunn has no time for moviegoers would take offense to him embracing the political themes in Superman's story for his upcoming film heading to theaters next week.

The David Corenswet-led flick encompasses the DC comic's origins — akin to "the story of America" — and at a basic level, is about a man searching for a better life after leaving his original home (planet), the 58-year-old director and co-head of DC Studios said in a new interview with The Times.

"I mean, Superman is the story of America," Gunn told the publication. "An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost."

It isn't as if the idea of Clark Kent/Superman being political is a novel concept; the superhero was created by sons of Jewish immigrants, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel. And any comic book reader worth their salt can understand that the Krypton-born alien's origins mean he's a refugee sent to Earth by parents wanting him to live a better life than he would have on an imploding planet.

And if they see reason to protest that fact, they can take it up with DC Comics, which used the hero's visage to back World Refugee Day in 2018.

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To: MinorityRepublican

There is a difference between immigrants taming a hostile continent and immigrants sneaking in to get free stuff. They now come to a land where railroads and highways have made trade easy and where welfare is like honey to the kind of people you don’t want.


41 posted on 07/07/2025 9:13:34 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Celerity

see mexican riots


42 posted on 07/07/2025 9:14:08 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hollywood needs a nuke dropped on it.


43 posted on 07/07/2025 9:14:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

i am PAYING for entertainment

PSAs are free


44 posted on 07/07/2025 9:15:20 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Williams

no charges for the kiddie porn?


45 posted on 07/07/2025 9:19:39 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: MinorityRepublican

Way to alienate the public!


46 posted on 07/07/2025 9:20:17 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Celerity

Krypton no.

But Latin American countries do welcome humans even human Americans, with wide arms


47 posted on 07/07/2025 9:20:35 PM PDT by Cronos (on the tradition of St. Augustine (5th century), Catholics combine the prohibition against "no other)
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To: joshua c

They wrote “jokes” that were truly filthy about having sex or wanting to have sex with little kids.
I’m not making this up, he was fired by Disney but money talks.


48 posted on 07/07/2025 9:23:42 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

James Gunn?

Low caliber, low T


49 posted on 07/07/2025 9:32:34 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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To: iamgalt

He must have a dei agent advising him what to say-


50 posted on 07/07/2025 9:34:35 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

He’s already been paid.


51 posted on 07/07/2025 9:45:32 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words. )
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To: LastDayz

Exactly.


52 posted on 07/07/2025 9:46:07 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: mowowie

I’m just going to wait for the DVD on this one.


53 posted on 07/07/2025 10:12:36 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If I recall correctly, the name of Superman’s alter ego is Clark Kent. Kent is a Mexican name, so Superman is a Mexican-American.


54 posted on 07/07/2025 10:46:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: MinorityRepublican

Doing research...his whole family is hard lefty. Not suprised.

CC


55 posted on 07/08/2025 12:22:51 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Pedisequus parasiticus es popularium!unintentionally )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good! Now let all illegal aliens in to movie houses free to see your love letter to them.


56 posted on 07/08/2025 2:26:34 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I can’t equate Superman with some of the people who came across our border.

Remember when we used to have borders? The Democrats don’t remember.


57 posted on 07/08/2025 3:32:12 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: All

Gunn tweeted he “liked it when little boys touched him in his silly place.. Shhhh.”

A while ago, Disney cut ties with the YouTube channel Pewdiepie because of a video he did reacting to pictures. One picture was of a guy holding up an antisemitic sign. People found out that the photo was staged by Pewdiepie, who paid the guy to pose for the photo.

It’s clear that Gunnn didn’t actually push any antisemitic message with his video and that he himself isn’t an antisemite.........but Disney doesn’t want to be the company that pays a guy who pays people to hold up antisemitic signs.

Likewise, they don’t want to be the company who pays a guy that said he rapes children. They don’t care if he meant it. I know those kinds of jokes would get me fired from my job, and I’m not a public representative of the company like Gunn is.


58 posted on 07/08/2025 3:34:25 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: MinorityRepublican

This punk who plays Superman is a maga critic.
To hell with him and to hell with a woke movie here.


59 posted on 07/08/2025 5:10:48 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: NorthMountain

Well, James, you idiot, I can scratch off seeing that movie.

P.S. Screw you back.


60 posted on 07/08/2025 5:36:35 AM PDT by odawg
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