James Gunn has shared iPhone screensavers of Superman and Krypto.
On Tuesday, October 15, 2024, Gunn shared the first look at the DCU’s Krypto the Superdog. Krypto will make his official debut in Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU in Superman, which will be released in 2025.
Gunn has now shared versions of the first look with edited aspect ratios so that they can function as iPhone screensavers. View the images below:
What has James Gunn said about the Superman and Krypto image?
“Krypto arrives on screens in Superman this summer,” Gunn wrote in his original social media post. “Krypto was inspired by our dog Ozu, who we adopted shortly after I started writing Superman. Ozu, who came from a hoarding situation in a backyard with 60 other dogs & never knew human beings, was problematic to say the least. He immediately came in & destroyed our home, our shoes, our furniture – he even ate my laptop. It took a long time before he would even let us touch him. I remember thinking, ‘Gosh, how difficult would life be if Ozu had superpowers?’- and thus Krypto came into the script & changed the shape of the story as Ozu was changing my life. What better time to debut the not-so-good-good-boy Krypto than AdoptaShelterDog month. Btw, Ozu today, is, fairly often, a very good boy.”
Responding to a comment on Threads, Gunn said regarding why Krypto won’t be a labrador in the DCU, “Krypto is historically a generic white dog, sometimes also a lab, white shepherd, husky, or Dalmatian. But obviously he’s an alien so he wouldn’t necessarily be exactly any one of these things.”
Superman stars David Corenswet as Clark Kent, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, Wendell Pierce as Perry White, Terence Rosemore as Otis, Sara Sampaio as Eve Teschmacher, Pruitt Taylor Vince as Jonathan Kent, Neva Howell as Martha Kent, and more.
The film will be released in United States theaters on July 11, 2025.
