Argylle director Matthew Vaughn has helmed several comic book movies over the course of his career, including Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and X-Men: First Class, but he has yet to dip his toe in the DC movie universe.
The filmmaker recently revealed that he "would consider" taking the helm of the upcoming Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow movie after House of the Dragon's Milly Alcock landed the lead role, but what about the Man of Steel himself?
BroBible.com asked Vaughn if he'd have any interest in directing one of the DCU Elseworlds movies that DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn is planning, and it sounds like he could definitely be persuaded to come aboard an adaptation of Mark Millar's Red Son.
“I thought Red Son was one of the cleverest comics I’d ever read, and the current world we’re living in, it’s certainly become a lot more relevant because ignorance causes more issues, and I think the more we learn about Russia and the Russian history.”
Vaughn then had the idea of casting our previous Man of Steel and his Argylle star Henry Cavill as the Soviet Union's Superman. “Wow, could you imagine remaking Red Son with Henry Cavill? That would be an interesting movie.”
The premise of Red Son asks "what if" Superman's ship landed on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas, as we see the Man of Tomorrow grow to become a state-sponsored superhero whose civilian identity is kept secret, and who, in Soviet radio broadcasts, is described not as fighting for "truth, justice, and the American Way", but as "the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact".
"Red Son is based on a thought that flitted through my head when I read Superman #300 as a six-year-old," Millar said of developing his initial idea for the story. "It was an imaginary story where Superman's rocket landed in neutral waters between the USA and the USSR and both sides were rushing to claim the baby. As a kid growing up in the shadow of the Cold War, the notion of what might have happened if the Soviets had reached him first just seemed fascinating to me."
"As I got older, I started putting everything together and I first pitched something to DC when I was thirteen, I think — although it was in a much cruder form, of course, and my drawings weren't quite up to scratch," he added.
An animated adaptation was released in 2020, and Jordan Vogt-Roberts pitched a live-action take back in 2017, but Warner Bros. declined.
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