Superman fans didn't fail to react to a clip from James Gunn's film, not only in relation to the director's optimistic aesthetic, but also and above all concerning an aspect of the CGI, considered to be a failure... But don't panic, this new trailer proves that the special effects are mastered, and that the presence of the missed shot was a simple error.
A Superman in full flight, the laughing stock of internet users
In the trailer for Superman, you could see the superhero in mid-flight, filmed from the front, with the rest of his body facing backward, against a glacial landscape in the background. David Corenswet's face is oddly distorted (by speed?), and his body moves in a strange way, from a point of view we as viewers are not used to. This sequence has garnered some pretty harsh criticism from internet users. James Gunn responded by stating that neither the actor's face nor the setting (filmed on a Norwegian archipelago) were the result of special effects.
There is absolutely no computer-generated imagery on his face. People's faces can look different when you use a wide-angle lens up close. The background scenery in Svalbard is 100% real, as is David.
More recently, the director addressed this controversial shot in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, explaining that this sequence is not in the film, and that the special effects weren't finished when it ended up being used in a commercial.
It was a TV commercial and the visual effects weren't finished. So the part where he's flying was a photograph of his face and him flying. It was a photograph of a drone flying in front of a real background. So all the elements were real, but they were incorporated in a rather bizarre way. I didn't like the shot, so it's not even the one in the movie. Sometimes I'm pretty strict when I watch a trailer and examine every shot, but sometimes in commercials, I forget to look at that closely. That's why I missed it.
This new teaser proves that Superman can fly (all good)
James Gunn was misunderstood following these comments, since he was criticized on social networks for having said everything and its opposite (that there are no special effects, since there are). What the director is saying is that the VFX for the shot, which mainly concerns Clark Kent's body movement, weren't finished when the commercial aired. And in a new thirty-second teaser released yesterday by the film's official account, we can see the superhero flying smoothly... and from a much more conventional angle.
The world will see who he truly is. #Superman - only in theaters July 11. Get tickets now: https://t.co/mznvQOz0g3 pic.twitter.com/wAPa20CBAO
— Superman (@Superman) June 20, 2025
New flying shot #Superman pic.twitter.com/FB9x7ihPZx
— Everything_DCU (@EverythingDCU_) June 20, 2025
Fans of Henry Cavill and Zack Snyder's Man of Steel are waiting for David Corenswet and James Gunn's Superman: we hope that the film, whose length was recently revealed, will achieve consensus among a divided audience !
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