During his first public appearance following his latest box office hit, the filmmaker earned a standing ovation from the Hall H crowd while choking up as he talked about his love of the comic book medium.

James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ has officially launched the new era of DC Studios, and it does so by acting as both a beginning and a continuation. While it’s the first live-action film of the DCU reboot, it subtly and cleverly ties into events and characters from earlier projects like ‘The Suicide Squad’ and ‘Peacemaker’.