James Gunn's Superman casts Diary of a Wimpy Kid actor as Ma Kent
Apr. 17, 2024James Gunn’s Superman has cast its Ma Kent
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Superman needs parents, and Pa Kent needs a Ma Kent, and therefore actor Neva Howell has been cast as Ma Kent inJames Gunn’s Superman film, according to a report fromThe Wrap. This is hot on the heels of The Walking Dead actorPruitt Taylor Vince reportedly being cast as the aforementioned Pa Kent.
With both of Clark Kent/Superman’s adoptive parents now apparently in place, the cast of writer/director Gunn’s Superman movie is taking shape. Alongside Howell as Ma and Vince as Pa, the cast includes David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman himself, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, and Wendall Pierce as Perry White.
The film also includes an entire Justice League consisting ofThe Suicide Squad’s Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern,Madame Web’s Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific, María Gabriela de Faría as The Engineer, and Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho.
Ma and Pa Kent actually took a little while to appear in comics, showing up in 1939’s Superman #1 by Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Superman himself first appeared in 1938’s Action Comics #1.
Gunn’s Superman film was originally titled Superman: Legacy, but the filmmaker, who is also co-CEO of DC Films,revealed the shortened title earlier this year along with the film’s Superman emblem. Superman will be the first big movie of Gunn and co-CEO Peter Saffron’s relaunched DC Films, which has an entire slate of new DC movies and series planned, including a Batman and Robin film titled The Brave and the Bold.
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