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🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
0:05.4 | RWJF is a national philanthropy, working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right. |
0:12.1 | Learn more at RWJF.org. |
0:19.8 | Heroes come and go, but there is only one Superman, |
0:23.5 | by which we mean there have been many supermans, supermen, |
0:27.4 | and now, after much anticipation, there is another. |
0:31.0 | And he's bringing exactly what we look to him for, hope. |
0:34.7 | Writer and director James Gunn and new man of steel, David Corrin, |
0:38.2 | and team up for a new tale of the eternal struggle between an evil billionaire |
0:42.0 | megalomaniac and some people in colorful costumes who combine all their powers to stop him. |
0:47.6 | And this time, there's a dog. |
0:49.9 | I'm Glenn Weldon. |
0:50.8 | And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about Superman on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining us today is writer Chris Klemick. Hello, Chris. Hello, Linda. It's not a bird. It's not a plane. It's just me. Hello. Yeah, that's right. So James Gunn worked on, among other things, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad. not the first one, not suicide squad, but the suicide squad. |
1:13.6 | Dave. among other things, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad. Not the first one, not suicide squad, but the suicide squad. |
1:23.0 | David Corenswet looks like he was born to play the role of Clark Kent slash Superman. You might know him mostly from supporting roles in movies like Twisters. |
1:28.5 | His Lois Lane, played by Rachel Brosnahan, knows all about his dual identity, and she's concerned because as the movie begins, he's not all that popular. It seems he intervened |
1:33.9 | in an international conflict, and the fallout from that has made people doubt him, both at home |
1:39.2 | and abroad. Pulling many of the strings is, of course,uthor, played by a very bald Nicholas Holt, |
1:46.3 | and written here as a ruthless bigot who's not above stoking people's fears that a man from another planet cannot possibly be here to help. |
1:55.1 | The film is in theaters now. |
1:56.8 | Glenn, tell me, you, I believe, R a book in 2013 called Superman the unauthorized biography. |
2:03.6 | And I am wondering, do you have any feelings about this version of Superman at all? |
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