James Gunn On How ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ Zack Snyder & ‘All-Star Superman’ Influenced New Film; Teases Lois & Clark’s “Complicated Relationship”

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James Gunn is teasing Superman ahead of the first trailer dropping on Thursday, revealing his influences for the DC Studios film.

After dropping the first teaser for the upcoming superhero film, Gunn is spilling the tea on how Top Gun: Maverick inspired the filmmaker in “shooting flying things.” “I wrote up this big document on action and what our philosophy is of action and how we shoot it and what it is, and keeping it alive in the air, as well as on the ground,” Gunn said in a report from ComicBook. “And to be able to shoot stuff in the sky as if we were shooting it … Because everything was rougher, like, it’s in Guardians [of the Galaxy], like it’s in The Suicide Squad.

And being able to shoot stuff in the sky like that is really hard.” He continued, “So we took a lot from films like Top Gun: Maverick, which, we are shooting flying things.

We shoot a lot of our action with actual drones flying in and around Superman and the people that he’s flying with, The Engineer, whoever else, that he’s fighting up in the air, and we did that on sound stages.