That font. Those images. The name of a famous superhero movie director. Everything about the trailer for BrightBurn feels like a riff on Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, especially if you’re a savvy, connected superhero movie fan and you know James Gunn recently made the leap to DC from Marvel. But this isn’t a Superman movie: it’s a movie that uses all the trappings of the Superman origin story to tell an entirely more frightening tale. And if you thought the DCEU Kal-El was overly dark before, well, it’s possible you ain’t seen nothin’ yet:
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