SUPERMAN Director James Gunn Says DCU Projects From Korea, Japan And Brazil Are In Development

SUPERMAN Director James Gunn Says DCU Projects From Korea, Japan And Brazil Are In Development

Though he didn't actually name the projects, DC Studios' co-CEO James Gunn has revealed that DCU movies/TV shows based in a number of different countries are in the works...

By MarkCassidy - Jul 03, 2025 07:07 PM EST
Filed Under: DC Studios

Superman director and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has previously mentioned that there are a number of projects in various stages of development that have yet to be announced as part of the "Gods and Monsters" slate (and beyond), and it seems at least a few of these mysterious movies and/or TV shows are going to have an international flavor.

While speaking to HT City, Gunn revealed that the studio is currently working on "projects from Korea, Japan, and Brazil." The filmmaker didn't name any of them, but we assume the Korean project he's referring to is the Huntress movie we first heard about back in 2023.

At the time, a rumor claimed that the film was moving forward with South Korean filmmaker and screenwriter Jung Byung-gil (Action Boys, The Villainess, Afterburn) in talks to write and direct, but we haven't heard any updates since.

There are a number of Brazilian and Japanese DC Comics characters, although none that really jump out as being popular/mainstream enough to lead their own movie or series. Then again, we are getting a Clayface film, so who knows what Gunn and co. might be cooking up.

Foreign-language DCU projects featuring what will presumably be largely unknown (to U.S. audiences, at least) casts are certainly an intriguing - and potentially risky - prospect, but if recent superhero films' box office performances are any indication, fans are clamouring for something a little different.

Superman stars David Corenswet as Clark Kent/the Man of Steel, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner, Edi Gathegi as Mr. Terrific, and Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho.

The cast also Pruitt Taylor Vince and Neva Howell as "Ma" and "Pa" Kent, and Milly Alcock's Supergirl has been confirmed to make her debut ahead of her own Woman of Tomorrow movie.

"And that’s a wrap," Gunn posted last year when filming concluded. "God bless our cast and crew whose commitment, creativity, and hard work have brought this project to life. I set out to make a movie about a good man in a world that isn’t always so much. And the goodness and kindness and love I’ve encountered on a daily basis on the set has inspired me and thrust me forward when I felt too spent to move on my own.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. It has been an honor. The destination has been Superman, but the journey has been the toil and the laughter and the emotions and ideas and magic we’ve shared together on set - and for that I am forever grateful."

You can check out a synopsis for the movie below.

"In his signature style, James Gunn takes on the original superhero in the newly imagined DC universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who’s driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind."

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28ClungesLater
28ClungesLater - 7/3/2025, 7:32 PM
They must all have complete scripts right? Right? Right! 😮‍💨
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/3/2025, 8:32 PM
@JurassicClunge - this would imply they are writing scripts bud
28ClungesLater
28ClungesLater - 7/4/2025, 3:03 AM
@McMurdo - then why are we hearingg about them bud?

He said nothing is greenlit until he has complete scripts so he shouldn't be saying a word 👀
JobinJ
JobinJ - 7/3/2025, 7:33 PM
Would love to see some more international mutants and superhero’s on film. Seems like most are America.
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 7/3/2025, 7:59 PM
Ditto. Hopefully the mutant saga can commit to some new settings in a meaningful way.
Ikusa
Ikusa - 7/3/2025, 7:35 PM
Better them than Europe. Especially France and the U.K.
BruceWayng
BruceWayng - 7/3/2025, 8:18 PM
@Ikusa - True…plus I doubt France and UK would even be allowed to do it in the first place. I don’t think it’s allowed under sharia law
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/4/2025, 5:30 AM
@BruceWayng - The DCU primary production hub is in the UK, as to your second statement I suggest you switch to a better news source cos the idea that sharia law has any weight at all in the UK is laughable, if anything the exact opposite ESPECIALY after the blinkers were taken off with law enforcement with the grooming scandals and resulting government enquiries etc. Will some Muslims almost anywhere in the world adhere to sharia law, sure, but the extremes of that folk focus on are explicitly illegal in Britain and thus don't have any influance outside of self segregational muslims which after what was revealed in Rotherham and beyond increased work has gone into puncturing those bubbles.
WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 7/3/2025, 7:54 PM
Can we get a Batman and maybe a Martian Manhunter project started first before we start going with D list characters just to check DEI boxes
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 7/3/2025, 11:27 PM
@WakandaTech - 🥱
Huskers
Huskers - 7/4/2025, 1:16 AM
@WakandaTech - thank you! I’ll never understand Gunn’s fascination with obscure characters and references in the DCU.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/4/2025, 5:39 AM
@WakandaTech - I LOVE Batman, STILL my favourite DC character, but the one thing we don't need MORE of is MORE of a focus on Batman IP's. Which others get more attention will be open to opinion but WB has relied too much on Batman for too long, we're going to have to concurrent Batman franchises on the big screen as it is anyway and both are likely to be released before these Korea and Japan projects.

I'd also check your local comic book stores, love it or hate it but there will be a reason why they'd want to cash in on the domination of manga/anime with Asian based projects, has nothing to do with box ticking and everything about where the demand will be percieved highest (odds are they may frack it up but...).
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 7/3/2025, 8:03 PM
I’ll take a good Korean huntress movie over a Batman movie from the guy who already f—-ed up two perfectly good Batmen on film.
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 7/3/2025, 8:10 PM
The one thing Gunn is doing to get me excited is keeping an open mind about what the DCU is, and he seems to be giving good ideas a chance over forcing “priority IPs”. That said, we’re how many years into this thing and still waiting on the first movie… but not really because suicide squad led directly to peacemaker and peacemaker is cannon, kind of, maybe, but blue beetle is definitely cannon… maybe, but maybe not. But creature commandos is definitely cannon, but it doesn’t count yet because Superman is the first official cannon project…maybe.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/4/2025, 5:47 AM
@LenSpiderman - A problem with DC for a LONG time is we have repeatedly heard way too much about projects in early stages that never end up being made. ALL studios will tend to have dozens (or more) of films pitched that go nowhere for every one that makes it to the big screen but we rarely hear about any of them, with DC content it has always seemed the opposite where we get more articles on films that never get released than we do on what's that are.

All that said, being open to trying new things bouncing around ideas for more obscure character rather than JUST going with the easier A listers I'm all for if we get something like the GotG coming outa nowhere being a hit. Just make sure there is a strong enough story to be worth going there, but mostly we don't need to know every idea anyone has until it is more likely than not to be released within the next few years.
TheJester187
TheJester187 - 7/3/2025, 8:21 PM
Batman & Aquaman should be top priority. DC does need to get ahead on the TV series. That’s where most my value is for MAX and I want my moneys worth.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 7/3/2025, 8:27 PM
DC Tentacle Hentai when?
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/3/2025, 8:34 PM
Gunn says end of Peacemaker will give people more of an idea where the greater DCU arc is going. If Superman is good, exciting things to come.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 7/3/2025, 8:52 PM
Hope Gunn gives us Batman Inc. eventually.
MisterBones
MisterBones - 7/3/2025, 9:11 PM
Japan you say…

Lady Shiva project would be dope
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SolarSoldier
SolarSoldier - 7/4/2025, 3:07 AM
@MisterBones - Lady Shiva is from China. Katana could work.
MisterBones
MisterBones - 7/4/2025, 10:11 AM
@SolarSoldier - you are right, though I would mention that her godfather is Japanese.

And she trained in Japan. Could lean into that
Nolanite
Nolanite - 7/3/2025, 11:14 PM
Can we get a hero from Iran or Russia?

I just want to see blood and guts flying all over the place.

Nolanite out
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/3/2025, 11:57 PM
Interesting…

I wonder if these would be Elseworlds projects or set in the DCU?.

Also given that the rumored Korean Project is Huntress apparently , it obviously seems like they aren’t just limiting themselves to characters that have the same ethnicity into the country they are being adapted into such as Katana for Japan which certainly opens up the options immensely!!.

Anyway , will be interesting to see how this goes since they may also all not be live action aswell.
SolarSoldier
SolarSoldier - 7/4/2025, 3:06 AM
I could see a Fire Television series.

The obsession with "nobody knows who they are", has to stop. Nobody knew who GOTG was. Not everything is going to be GOTG. But the obsession with A-list makes no sense. The public determines who is A-List. And that can't happen if B-and C-list characters are forever obscure. Sheesh.

For Brazil, I'd assume Fire. She is the president of the Wayne Enterprises branch in Brazil. Men would tune in just based on a busty Brazilian woman who can turn into flames.

Japan, I'd say Katana. She is explicitly Japanese. While Lady Shiva, is..Chinese.

Korea could be Cameron Kim (who can communicate with cities as if they were living things) I could see this tying into Doom Patrol's Danny The Street. And he'd make a great spy. You wouldn't have to interrogate and could get great intel.

SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 7/4/2025, 5:35 AM
No one will care about the tv if films are crap. Could we not just get 5-7 of really good movies instead of further vitiating the brand with sub standard, generic tv shows?
cadunovaes01
cadunovaes01 - 7/4/2025, 8:31 PM
It may vary, but if we are talking about Brazilian characters at DC, the best known are Fire and Wonder Woman Yara Flor.
Now if it's another character and the series/film will only take place in Brazil, just waiting to find out
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 7/5/2025, 2:02 AM
Develop one at the time like the Huntress one while also focusing on getting half of the 2023 slate to reach completition. Adding more and more stuff when the first task isn't anywhere close to being complete is too irregular. Waller is stuck in development hell along with Booster Gold and Paradise Lost.

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