SUPERMAN Director James Gunn Confirms Kent Farm Will Be A "Double-Wide Trailer" Not A Farmhouse In DCU

SUPERMAN Director James Gunn Confirms Kent Farm Will Be A "Double-Wide Trailer" Not A Farmhouse In DCU

Superman director James Gunn has revealed new details about his take on Kent Farm in the DCU, revealing that Ma and Pa Kent reside in a "double-wide trailer" similar to those the filmmaker saw growing up.

By JoshWilding - May 11, 2025 05:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Superman

Following an extended break from social media, DC Studios co-CEO and Superman director James Gunn has answered a handful of fan questions, including one about whether Clark Kent is poor or from a middle-class background. 

Weighing in on the debate, Gunn shed some light on how he's approached the DCU's take on the character. "Our house in Superman is a converted double-wide trailer," the filmmaker said, explaining why he settled on that approach rather than the expected farmhouse. "I wanted his upbringing to reflect more closely the Missouri farmers I was raised around."

This makes sense and is another example of the authenticity that Gunn is bringing to the table with Superman. He's talked a lot about making the Man of Tomorrow more relatable, something that's often the case in the best comics revolving around the Kryptonian superhero (such as All-Star Superman, a key source of inspiration for Gunn). 

Inevitably, some will see the word "trailer" and immediately find fault with Clark Kent not having grown up in the classic farmhouse setting seen in the comics. 

However, in the real world, Jonathan and Martha Kent would need to be millionaires to live in the type of sprawling farms seen in Superman: The Movie and Smallville (Man of Steel, perhaps less so). Should practicalities and realism be put to one side for a better aesthetic? That's debatable, but Clark coming from more humble beginnings does better suit the character. 

Superman's take on Kent Farm also doesn't look that bad, even if it doesn't fit the stereotypical design typically associated with the character's home in Smallville, Kansas. 

You can read Gunn's comments in full below. Once you've done that, be sure to head to the comments section where you can let us know your thoughts on this news. 

Superman, DC Studios' first feature film to hit the big screen, is set to soar into theaters worldwide this summer from Warner Bros. Pictures.

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.  

The movie stars David Corenswet in the dual role of Superman/Clark Kent, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor.

Also appearing are Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, María Gabriela de Faría, Wendell Pierce, Alan Tudyk, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Neva Howell, and Milly Alcock.

Superman arrives in theaters on July 11, 2025.

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knomad
knomad - 5/11/2025, 5:32 PM
The more I'm hearing, the less I'm liking.

RIP, DCU
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 5/11/2025, 5:32 PM
you know soup talking to his dead papa on a snowy mountain isn't looking too bad now
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DrDReturns
DrDReturns - 5/11/2025, 10:19 PM
@harryba11zack - Personally, I love that scene.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 5/11/2025, 5:37 PM
"I wanted his upbringing to reflect more closely the Missouri farmers I WAS RAISED IN."

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You're meant to be making a movie about Superman!, not SuperGunn.
With this and the self insertion we saw in creature comando's, I'm starting to beileve all those leaks and rumours against him.
fanboy03191
fanboy03191 - 5/11/2025, 5:42 PM
@HashTagSwagg - I’m behind- what leaks and rumors?
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 5/11/2025, 6:29 PM
@fanboy03191 - That Gunn is too overreationary, he let the negative words on twitter influence his storytelling. Instead of giving us the DC universe with a focus on great storytelling, he's using it as his personal wish fufilmeant and to let his regression out at the naysayer.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 5/11/2025, 6:33 PM
@fanboy03191 - *naysayer's.
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Goldboink
Goldboink - 5/11/2025, 7:54 PM
@HashTagSwagg -
The sooner people realize that it's all about ME the better off they will be.

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SummersEssex
SummersEssex - 5/11/2025, 11:23 PM
@HashTagSwagg - I have my concerns with the DCU and Gunn in general, but this change is not a problem. He’s making it realistic. I have Missouri farmer family too and I really like this idea.
captainwalker
captainwalker - 5/11/2025, 11:29 PM
@HashTagSwagg - The dog was his idea too......
Chasekeane
Chasekeane - 5/12/2025, 4:30 AM
@HashTagSwagg - oh my gosh, is the writer/director pulling from personal experience to make a movie feel more genuine? What the hell! How dare he?! The change to the Kent's farm completely destroys the character. How will he fall out of the window and learn to fly if it's only one storey!? Does he even. have. a. barn. shocking. Someone start a petition.
AC1
AC1 - 5/12/2025, 9:03 AM
@HashTagSwagg - Actually, to a certain extent, it IS about him. While it's right that his primary source of inspiration should be the comics (which it clearly is) it also totally makes sense that in adapting it and trying to give it a sense of emotional relatability he'd draw from his own experiences in crafting this version of the story. It's what pretty much all creatives do in some way or another, because if they don't have some sort of personal connection to the material then usually the end result falls flat.

Look at what he did with GOTG - the music stuff was his idea, not something from the comics, because it was personal to him (I'm pretty sure he said it reflects how he experienced a lot of the music he loves through his parents, similar to how Peter Quill experiences music through his mum) and most people loved that aspect of the movies. Or how he said he felt a kinship with Rocket of all characters because he used to feel like an outsider and a weirdo.

Or look at other comic book adaptations. Bryan Singer's experiences as a gay man being reflected in X-Men's mutant discrimination. Tim Burton using his love of weird, gothic aesthetics to reinvent Batman. Sam Raimi injecting his horror roots into key scenes of his Spider-Man movies (such as Green Goblin's transformation, Doc Ock's surgical massacre, etc)

I'm on the fence about Superman too, but it's not because Gunn wants to reflect some of his own experiences through the film in the ways he feels he can relate to Clark.
TiberiousOmega
TiberiousOmega - 5/11/2025, 5:39 PM
The farmhouse looks fine. Maybe I don’t know what a double wide trailer looks like, but that farmhouse is not what I imagined! I was thinking more trailer park.
RolandD
RolandD - 5/11/2025, 5:55 PM
@TiberiousOmega - Thank you. An actual objective take can be hard to find around here anymore.
DannyBrandy20
DannyBrandy20 - 5/11/2025, 5:44 PM
Everything is about him
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 5/11/2025, 5:47 PM
The Kent's farmhouse is played by Gunn's cousin, SMH
tRuckRogers46A
tRuckRogers46A - 5/11/2025, 5:51 PM
It's easier to write about things you're familiar with.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 5/11/2025, 5:57 PM
If that’s the Kent Farm in the film then I’m good with it…

It seems nice imo!!.

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RolandD
RolandD - 5/11/2025, 5:58 PM
The farmhouse looks absolutely fine. This movie is in good hands.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 5/11/2025, 6:04 PM
@RolandD - r u trying to convince us of that or yourself?
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tRuckRogers46A
tRuckRogers46A - 5/11/2025, 6:30 PM
@RolandD - Agreed. It looks like a farmhouse to me.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 5/11/2025, 6:04 PM
It’s funny seeing all the “it’s not about you” comments. Yes, we want a director to bring their vision to the film. That’s kind of the whole point. Maybe you don’t like Gunn’s vision, which is fine. But it kind of IS about the director of a film. That’s what a film director does.

I don’t understand some of you at all lol
TheShellyMan
TheShellyMan - 5/11/2025, 10:26 PM
@SheepishOne - It's always the usual suspects that whine here all the time.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 5/12/2025, 8:43 AM
@SheepishOne -
People want a directors vision of how to adapt the world while remaining faithful to that world.

People don't want a directors vision to be 'how can I make this project about me' - which is all this film is. James Gunn's as Superman with the entire world of the movie reflecting around James Gunn's life - his dog, his home, his favorite characters, his social commentary, his humor...

It's just a self-insert fanfic.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 5/12/2025, 4:13 PM
@Scarilian - I get what you’re saying, but I’d argue that’s the job of a director, and there are different directing styles. When you’re adapting source material, especially if it’s a character-driven story, especially if you’re a writer and director (I say this as if I’ve ever done it before), you have to hone in to what you relate to and identify with to best inform the story. With Gunn, it’s his dog and his upbringing (just so happens Supes has a pretty famous dog in the comics and a modest upbringing). Sure, his humor will be there, but again that’s what a writer does. It’s a weird concept to me to criticize a writer for writing how he does best and focusing on characters he likes most. That’s just writing.

Gunn does this with Guardians and his other projects, too. So does Nolan. So does Reeves. So do the Russos. So does Snyder.

Gunn is not above criticism at all, but you’re not criticizing the substance. You’re criticizing the very act of directing and writing, which respectfully, sounds to me like a nothingburger of a criticism.

It’s okay to just not like Gunn’s style.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 5/13/2025, 6:45 AM
@SheepishOne -

"I get what you’re saying"

You don't based on your comment given you try and deflect it and dismiss the criticism. Why would you think aspects relating to character, story and world building along with the motivation and goal of the writer not be a critique on the directing/writing?

"you have to hone in to what you relate to and identify with to best inform the story"

A good writer can identify and translate the aspects that appeal to a wider audience from the source. It's a writing crutch to just insert themselves and their life and make aspects relatable to them - especially when what is relatable to them may not reflect the general audience whereas you have aspects that people relate to in Superman that are being discarded.

Not one single aspect of the Raimi Spider-man trilogy is the writers experiences or the directors own life. The experiences are all taken from the comics, adapting iconic moments that resonate with people. Why is James Gunn unable to write Superman without letting his life and his desires influence the story and characters?

"It’s a weird concept to me to criticize a writer for writing how he does best"

I'm interested in adaptations based on my love for the source material, not the writer warping the characters and world building to reflect themselves and their experiences and talking about how they were inspired to change things because of what happened to them.

"focusing on characters he likes most"

They are not reflective of what characters the audience would want to see or specifically necessary to the plot-line being told. This can result in character bloat and counter the story trying to be told.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 5/13/2025, 11:58 AM
@Scarilian - No, I do get what you're saying, I just think you've misunderstood what Gunn is hired to do as a writer/director. If you go to an Italian restaurant and order the carbonara, would you be upset if the chef came to your table and explained that he made it like his mother used to make it for him as a kid in Italy, with a bit of anchovy?

"Not one single aspect of the Raimi Spider-man trilogy is the writers experiences or the directors own life."

Raimi has had multiple interviews talking about how he was a great choice to direct Spider-Man because of how he relates to the version of Peter Parker coming from a broken home and not being particularly good looking or good with girls. And the obvious horror influences in the Raimi trilogy serve Raimi's sensibilities as much as Gunn's humor serves his own.

"They are not reflective of what characters the audience would want to see or specifically necessary to the plot-line being told."

You mean the characters YOU would want to see.

Look, I get it if you don't like Gunn's style. But it's still silly to say a director, or a writer especially, should not pull from their own life and experiences to inform a story. Especially for a fictional character. You have a specific idea of what Superman needs to be on screen, and Gunn isn't delivering your vision. But he's not inventing all of this stuff from scratch. He's pulling from source material and adapting a version that he relates to.

Honestly, I don't know if his version is for me, either. But it's an adaptation. That's what all these movies are. If you want a perfect 1:1 translation of a specific comic run, give it about 5-10 years, and AI can probably do it for you.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 5/13/2025, 4:06 PM
@SheepishOne -
You are not remotely understanding what I am saying.

There's a fundamental difference between a director having a style or them relating to a character they are adapting VS a director inserting elements of their own life because they can only view the character in terms of their own personal life.

"If you go to an Italian restaurant and order the carbonara, would you be upset if the chef came to your table and explained that he made it like his mother used to make it for him as a kid in Italy, with a bit of anchovy?"

Again, a complete misunderstanding.

If you went to an Italian restaurant ordered the Cabronara, you've normally ordered that and had varying toppings in the past and you are willing to expand your boundaries. Then the chef came to the table giving you a tin of Heinz Minions Pasta Shapes and explained that he recently went to see the Minions movie and he used to have tins of Heinz Pasta when he was young so this is what he's giving you... would you be upset?

"I get it if you don't like Gunn's style"

This is not about his style.

"he relates to the version of Peter Parker"

He relates to the comics version of the character and then portrayed the comic version of the character on-screen.

He didn't decide to have Aunt May a former owner of lingerie shops simply because his mother did growing up - which is the sorta change James Gunn would do.

"You mean the characters YOU would want to see."
"If you want a perfect 1:1 translation of a specific comic run"

It's always the same deflections.

No, it's not a matter of me wanting specific characters, it's a matter of character bloat and narrative story telling along with understanding of building a cinematic universe. It's encompassing all the mistakes of each prior cinematic universe failure.

No, I don't want a perfect 1:1 translation. The Spider-man trilogy was not a perfect 1:1 translation, it adapted what worked and added some elements that fit with the story being told.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 5/14/2025, 9:54 AM
@Scarilian - "If you went to an Italian restaurant ordered the Cabronara, you've normally ordered that and had varying toppings in the past and you are willing to expand your boundaries. Then the chef came to the table giving you a tin of Heinz Minions Pasta Shapes and explained that he recently went to see the Minions movie and he used to have tins of Heinz Pasta when he was young so this is what he's giving you... would you be upset?"

Okay, sure I would be upset. But what has been revealed about James Gunn's Superman that is even remotely comparable to wanting carbonara but getting Minions pasta shapes? Everything I've seen from the trailer and photos has basis in the comics for inspiration. Tell me where I'm wrong.

"No, it's not a matter of me wanting specific characters, it's a matter of character bloat and narrative story telling along with understanding of building a cinematic universe. It's encompassing all the mistakes of each prior cinematic universe failure."

This is a completely different criticism than Gunn "inserting himself" into the movie. For the record, I agree there are probably too many characters, from what we've seen so far. I'll +1 your point here.

"The Spider-man trilogy was not a perfect 1:1 translation, it adapted what worked and added some elements that fit with the story being told."

For all we know, so is Superman. The key phrase here is "the story being told". I think you don't like the Superman story being told. But, it's still a Superman story.

Everything we've seen so far has precedent in the comics. And if your argument becomes "yea, well James Gunn just cherrypicked the comics he likes", then Idk what to tell you because that's what every CBM director has done since the beginning of time.
BruceWayng
BruceWayng - 5/11/2025, 6:04 PM
Gunn is best the best and worst person to have run a comic book movie studio.

You can tell that he’s is a massive DC fan and actually cares about the characters but he is also a massive James Gunn fan and loves himself waaaay too much.
ElJefe
ElJefe - 5/11/2025, 6:06 PM
I grew up in the Midwest surrounded by corn. Many “farm houses” looked like that.
UltimaRex
UltimaRex - 5/11/2025, 6:10 PM
A writer writes what he knows. Gunn will follow his viewpoint like Donner and Snyder did.

Also, shrinkflation. Put simply, having the big two storey farmhouse makes the Kents rich these days and they are not rich.

So yeah, this tracks.
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