Writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman” was always going to be a strange chemistry of filmmaker and material. Gunn, the mind behind “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad,”

I can’t think of a franchise movie with more riding on it than James Gunn’s long-awaited Superman. For all intents and purposes, this movie needs to relaunch a character on the big screen as well as usher in a new connected universe of comic book adaptations.