James Gunn Shares Impossibly Adorable Inspiration for Key Superman Character

Big Hollywood names utilizing their powerfulness for genuine bully is an each excessively uncommon quality, but James Gunn—a noted carnal lover—went supra and beyond with a societal media station combining quality astir Superman (i.e., thing everyone wants to click on) with a warm-hearted connection astir adopting shelter dogs. Check retired the station below, revealing the floofy-eared Krypto sitting adjacent to David Corenswet’s Man of Steel—as good arsenic Gunn’s ain (cinematically named) Ozu, who has notably akin floofy ears.

Krypto arrives connected screens successful Superman this summer. Krypto was inspired by our canine Ozu, who we adopted soon aft I started penning Superman. Ozu, who came from a hoarding concern successful a backyard with 60 different dogs & ne'er knew quality beings, was problematic to accidental the least. He… pic.twitter.com/zw8rVqv0n0

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 15, 2024

“Krypto arrives connected screens successful Superman this summer,” Gunn wrote successful the post. “Krypto was inspired by our canine Ozu, who we adopted soon aft I started penning Superman. Ozu, who came from a hoarding concern successful a backyard with 60 different dogs & ne'er knew quality beings, was problematic to accidental the least. He instantly came successful & destroyed our home, our shoes, our furniture—he adjacent ate my laptop. It took a agelong clip earlier helium would adjacent fto america interaction him. I retrieve thinking, ‘Gosh, however hard would beingness beryllium if Ozu had superpowers?’—and frankincense Krypto came into the publication & changed the signifier of the communicative arsenic Ozu was changing my life. What amended clip to debut the not-so-good-good-boy Krypto than #AdoptAShelterDog month.  Btw, Ozu today, is, reasonably often, a precise bully boy. #Superman.”

Based connected what we cognize astir the crippled of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which volition travel Superman connected the DC Studios cinematic slate, Krypto volition beryllium sticking astir aft his big-screen instauration successful Gunn’s upcoming release, with Milly Alcock’s Supergirl being driven to enactment aft the movie’s villain (played by Matthew Schoenaerts, and thought to beryllium comic publication villain Krem of the Yellow Hills) harms the four-legged superhero. Krypto archetypal made his debut successful comics pages backmost successful 1955, and has since appeared successful projects similar TV’s Smallville and Titans, and 2022’s DC’s League of Super-Pets, an animated movie that saw him voiced by Dwayne Johnson.

Superman volition people his live-action big-screen debut—giving this summer’s canine superhero breakout, Deadpool & Wolverine‘s instant Marvel icon Dogpool, immoderate superior contention successful the cuteness realm.

Adopt a Shelter Dog period is, of course, recognized each October—though Gunn and Ozu would surely hold that any period is simply a bully period to follow a furry friend. Just beryllium definite to enactment your laptop and immoderate different invaluable electronics retired of reach! Superman releases July 11, 2025; Supergirl arrives in theaters June 26, 2026.

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