Social media’s unwieldy insider culture has gotten so bloated that we’ve officially reached a point where James Gunn can actively debunk a rumor about Superman: Legacy, only for someone to fire back and try to debunk that which was just debunked.
It’s Inception-level stuff on the Twittersphere, but it shouldn’t come as a shock that the Guardians of the Galaxy director’s longtime arch-nemesis Grace Randolph was involved. The Beyond the Trailer host has a long and tenuous association with the current co-CEO of DC Studios, who even went so far as to annihilate her for “spouting bullsh*t” when alleged scoops regarding Gunn’s projects were being perpetrated.
This isn’t even the first time Randolph has tried to call Gunn out on lying to his millions of followers – something the Superman: Legacy writer and director has gone on record claiming he would never do – and it’s all to do with something as innocuous as an alleged casting call being sent out to various casting agencies across Hollywood.
At some point, the back-and-forth between Gunn and Randolph is going to boil over and come to a head, especially when she’s flying directly in the face of the words coming directly from the architect of the entire project.
The truth may or may not lie somewhere in the middle, because it’s doubtful that the architect of the Big Blue Boy Scout’s next reinvention doesn’t at least have an inkling of setting the wheels in motion now that he’s been confirmed as the man behind the camera, especially with a release date already locked in.