Man of Tomorrow (DC Studios, 2027)
Studio mergers tend to freeze creative pipelines: projects get re-evaluated, executives wait to learn who keeps their office, and <a href="https://cinemamix360.com/2026/10/04/italian-filmmaker-jacopo-reale-on-the-fracture/” title=”Italian filmmaker Jacopo Reale on The Fracture”>filmmakers hold their next move until the new owners speak. James Gunn, who runs DC Studios alongside Peter Safran, is behaving as if the ground beneath Warner Bros. were not shifting at all. As Paramount absorbs the studio that owns DC, he has already started writing whatever comes after his Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow.
As Deadline reported, Gunn confirmed it in a reply to a fan on Threads who asked whether he was ready to begin writing his next film. “Already in it,” he wrote. “I had to do something while I was waiting for the assembly!!” The assembly is the first complete stitching-together of a film’s footage, the long, rough version an editor delivers before the real cutting begins, which places Man of Tomorrow firmly in post-production. Gunn did not say what the new project is, or whether it belongs to the DC slate at all.
The timing matters beyond the edit bay. Deadline has also reported that Gunn and Safran will keep running DC Studios once the merger closes, after a meeting with David Ellison, who will lead the combined company. Not every Warner executive got that outcome: the studio’s film chiefs, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, are leaving. Against that backdrop, a co-chief who is already drafting the next script reads as a statement of continuity. DC’s plan still has its author at the desk.
Writing his own films while overseeing a studio is Gunn’s established pattern. He wrote and directed Superman, the reboot that launched the new DC Universe on screen, after building his reputation with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy and, for Warner, The Suicide Squad and the Peacemaker series. Man of Tomorrow extends that line: David Corenswet returns as Superman, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, and Lars Eidinger plays Brainiac, the superintelligent threat that pushes Superman and Luthor into a reluctant alliance.
Principal photography wrapped in August after 93 days, one more than Superman needed and the sequel is dated for July 9, 2027. That leaves roughly nine months to turn the assembly into a finished film, now under owners who were not in place when the cameras rolled
For now, the only firm fact about Gunn’s next film is when he began it: in the gap between wrapping a Superman movie and watching its first cut, while the studio that will release both changed hands.
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