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It feels like yesterday when we were discussing Superman , the first big-screen entry in James Gunn's rebooted DCU. Now Gunn is out , and Skydance (the company formed by the merger of Warner and Paramount) is already dismantling his grand plans for the DCU.

That means that Man of Tomorrow, which arrives next summer, will be the final entry in Gunn's ambitious, and occasionally divisive, DC experiment. The DCU's first chapter — officially titled 'Gods and Monsters' — gave us Supergirl and Clayface (as well as TV shows like Peacemaker S2 and Lanterns ) in the run-up to Clark Kent and Lex Luthor 's return.

Man of Tomorrow looks to be upping the stakes from Earthly villains to intergalactic baddies with the introduction of Brainiac, and it may well have been the herald of the first Justice League movie in the rebooted DCU.

Gunn has yet to prove audiences actually care about more than Batman and Supes, which might explain why this follow-up is also an ensemble of sorts.…