Final “Superman” Trailer Features Krypto, Green Lantern Face-Off, and Lex Luthor’s Chilling Promise

The final trailer for James Gunn’s Superman is here, arriving a month ahead of the film’s July 11 premiere and boasting fresh footage as we prepare for the official feature film launch of Gunn and Peter Safran’s newly invigorated (and unified) DC Studios. The final trailer opens with buildings pancaking atop each other until one man—can you guess his name?—flies in and manages to hold them up. 

Gunn has been explicit that his vision for Superman (David Corenswet) was to build his film around a superhero who is deeply, unabashedly decent, no matter how badly he’s baited or misunderstood.

“Being a child, I loved the purity of Superman,” Gunn said in a previous behind-the-scenes look, which gave us a glimpse of Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel from Richard Donner’s excellent 1978 film Superman. “That was a time when I was starting to understand what movies were.”

“James didn’t know that Superman was in his future. He wasn’t sure that was the one that he should be doing,” said his DC Studios partner, Peter Safran. “And then he called me one day and said, ‘I have a way in. I know what I want to talk about.”

This final trailer offers a glimpse of Superman through the lens of Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), a character who is decidedly not good and can’t stand the attention that Superman is receiving. So, what’s a sociopath with endless resources to do when someone else is getting all the love? Seek and destroy, of course, so Lex promises to annihilate everything that Superman holds dear, including Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) and his adoptive mother and father, Jonathan and Martha Kent (played by Pruitt Taylor Vince and Neva Howell). “I’ll kill them, too,” Lex says with a shrug and a grimace.

The fresh footage includes a mid-flight brawl that’s a real jaw dropper—Superman knocks the teeth out of one of Lex’s henchmen, aided by his best friend, Krypto the Superdog. We also get a standoff between the Green Lantern Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion), who gets into Superman’s face and says, “Make a move, big blue,” before the two men brawl. We also get a shot of Mr. Terrific (Ed Gathegi), utilizing his super-intelligence and his can-do spirit to try to help the Man of Steel. At one point, he shouts at Superman, who lying prone in chunks of concrete after a tough fight, “Quit messing around!”.

The ensemble is a big one, as Gunn has populated Metropolis with classic Superman characters and metahumans rarely seen on the big screen, including Skyler Gisondo (Jimmy Olsen), Wendell Pierce (Perry White), Sara Sampaio (Eve Teschmacher), Terence Rosemore (Otis), Anthony Carrigan (Metamorpho), Isabela Merced (Hawkgirl), and María Gabriela de Faría (The Engineer).

“This character’s noble, and he’s beautiful,” Gunn said in that previous behind-the-scenes look. And now, he’s almost ready to make his grand re-entrance.

Check out the final trailer below. Superman soars into theaters on July 11.

Featured image: Caption: DAVID CORENSWET as Superman in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “SUPERMAN,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.