Everybody is talking about the new SUPERMAN star David Corenswet, but what was Henry Cavill’s reaction when he found out he’d been recast?

While Henry Cavill may no longer be Superman, is there a world where he plays a different role in the DCU? Here’s what we know.

With the new Superman making waves around the globe, few regrets remain for DC fans, but one of them is the departure of Henry Cavill, the actor who played Superman before the DCU. Sadly, for David Corenswet to step up,

“That was really unfortunate,” Gunn continued. “So Peter and I [thought] the right thing to do was to sit down with [Cavill] and talk to him. And we sat down and we talked to him. He was an absolute gentleman, a great guy about it. He said, ‘The only thing I ask is that I’m able to reveal it myself as opposed to it coming from you guys.'”

Audiences just witnessed the emergence of a new big-screen Superman via the release of James Gunn’s movie of the same name. However, a few years ago, there was a point at which it seemed that Henry Cavill would return to play the Man of Steel.

Superman (Henry Cavill) breaks the ice with Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson) in Black Adam (2022), Warner Bros. Pictures. It was weird in 2022 to see Henry Cavill announce he was back

There was the time James Gunn said "The Flash" was one of the best superhero movies he'd ever seen, only for the film to become an uneven, janky, CGI-laden, nostalgia-bait box office disaster of superheroic proportions.

In an interview on the podcast Happy Sad Confused, James Gunn revealed that he had a difficult conversation with the actor to inform him that he would not return to play the Man of Steel.