The former Superman takes issue with the director's comments about the new movie being an immigration allegory: "We know Superman is an immigrant — he's a freaking alien."

The New Adventures of Superman, has shared some of the reservations he has about James Gunn's take on the iconic

James Gunn wasn’t going to make Superman without finding the perfect Clark Kent, and he made that very clear in a recent interview with GQ , admitting: “I said from the beginning, if I don’t find Superman,

James Gunn's much-anticipated Superman has set a record-breaking Rotten Tomatoes audience score, placing it above every previous Superman film in history. The fresh take on Superman stars David Corenswet as Clark Kent.

Superman's Rotten Tomatoes score beats Man of Steel. Scroll to see how high Gunn's reboot is flying in critics’ eyes!

During post-production on Superman, writer-director James Gunn ran into a problem. “We found that people loved the movie but that they were confused about the world they were entering,” Gunn told io9 recently. And so, to fix that problem, late in the filmmaking process, he looked to another one of his favorite films for the fix.

Superman doesn’t live in Philadelphia, but actor David Corenswet has called this region home for most of his 32 years on this planet. The new superhero star takes the national spotlight this week in James Gunn’s reboot of Superman,