Superman vs. Darkseid: Did Zack Snyder Just Announce a Huge DC Movie?

“Restore the SnyderVerse!” chant director Zack Snyder’s fans, desperate to see the filmmaker’s vision come to fruition!

After winning the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League in 2021, fans continue to believe and campaign for the director to return and put his hands in the DC Universe.

However, new studio heads James Gunn and Peter Safran don’t seem to see it that way. Last January, they announced their strategy for the future of DC, announcing several movie and series projects, including Superman Legacy.

This new opus of Man of Steel adventures will be done without Henry Cavill, who was fired by DC. James Gunn has taken the responsibility of writing and directing this film which will be released on July 9, 2025.

Zack Snyder’s name did not appear in the projects announced by the big guns of DC Studios. However, it took a tweet from the director to get fans excited and hype around the SnyderVerse.

On March 15, the artist posted a 14-second video on his Twitter. We hear the voice of actor Ray Porter, who voiced supervillain Darkseid in Zack Snyder’s Justice League.

The latter indicates the date: April 28-30, which tells us to reserve this moment. With this very cryptic tweet, Zack Snyder has blown up Twitter and social networks, who are racing to figure out what this announcement might be trying to hide. What does Zack Snyder have in store for us at the end of April?

First of all, who is DARKSEID?

Darkseid is a DC Comics supervillain created by Jack Kirby for the Fourth World comic book series in the early 1970s.

Darkseid is the Lord of Apokolips; His ultimate goal is to control the entire multiverse by eliminating hope and free will from all its inhabitants. He is the new god and one of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe.

Back to DC?

Referring to the April 28-30 slot, is the director set to hold SnyderCon to reveal his new projects, including a possible feature film based on Darkseid?

According to James Gunn, the suffocating filmmaker has seemed completely out of the DC universe since the release of his Justice League. He even dropped a new project, Rebel Moon, an SF film that will be released on December 22nd on Netflix.

Snyder accompanied his video with a cryptic message: #FullCircle. Does this mean he’ll be back for one last go-round to finish the superhero run he started in 2013 with Man of Steel?

Is the series in the works?

Knowing that Snyder is currently working with Netflix for Rebel Moon, we can imagine that the platform has given him carte blanche for another project. We can imagine an animated series around Darkseid with the voice of Ray Porter reprising his role.

Why not a live action series too? But it’s unlikely that a collaboration between DC and Netflix will happen, even if fans demand that the platform fund the filmmaker so he can continue to bring his vision to his side. Perhaps this project will be made under the HBO Max banner, similar to Zack Snyder’s Justice League.

Zack Snyder plays TRUBLIONS

Anyway, the director stepped in to drop his little bombshell and chose his moment well. Almost simultaneously, James Gunn announced that he was going to be in charge of Superman Legacy.

Additionally, Shazam 2 will be released on March 29, The Flash on June 14, and Aquaman 2 on December 20. The DC Universe is moving forward with James Gunn’s reboot. Perhaps the “full circle” that Zack Snyder is talking about will be the end of this DC epic that began in 2013 with Man of Steel.

Can we imagine the filmmaker bringing back Henry Cavill as Superman for his last stand against the big bad Darkseid? Will he reunite the Justice League one last time? Since all the failures associated with taking down Cavill since his appearance in Black Adam, this hypothesis is implausible.

However, fans dreamed of this to give Cavill a dignified exit; This erases the insult of a final cameo appearance at the end of the feature film, which was a critical and commercial failure. We can also think about the Snyder-penned comic book announcement for his Justice League ending, followed by the first images of Rebels of the Moon.

SNYDER VS GUNN: FIGHT!

Since co-heading DC Studios with Peter Safran, James Gunn has been trying to bring his vision to life with an all-encompassing social media presence. On the other hand, Zack Snyder, who has a huge fan base behind him, is cautious, conspicuous by subtlety.

Even if the two artists respect each other and have already worked together on Army of the Dead, we can’t put aside the idea of ​​a certain rivalry, especially when we know how close the superhero universe is to their hearts.

So, just hours after Zack Snyder’s cryptic announcement, James Gunn responded with a Twitter thread explaining why he agreed to direct Superman Legacy.

Anyway, something is brewing and Snyder is gearing up to reveal it all at the end of April! James Gunn will then release Guardians of the Galaxy 3 for Marvel on May 3rd.