There’s lots of data to course of in the primary official trailer for James Gunn’s “Superman” movie, which is able to formally kick off his new DC Studios universe in live-action subsequent July. There’s our introduction to this model of Superman, performed by David Corenswet, as he lies within the snow and whistles for his super-dog, Krypto, to come back assist get him house. There’s our introduction to Metropolis, the villainous Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), the Day by day Planet, reporter Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), and far, rather more. Heck, we even get to see some members of the Justice League. There’s so much packed into the trailer, so it may be straightforward to overlook among the essential bits — and one very essential shot deserves a particular shout-out.
We see Superman kneeling within what appears just like the Fortress of Solitude, with all of its crystalline buildings, and he is holding the hand of a robotic that appears awfully acquainted. Given the place he is at and the robotic’s look, it is seemingly we’re getting a model of Kelex in “Superman.”
Starting with “The Man of Metal #1” in 1986, Kelex was launched as a former robotic servant of Jor-El, Superman’s dad, again on their house planet of Krypton, alongside fellow robotic servant Kelor and a lot of others. Kelex had served Jor-El longer than some other robotic and was attendant upon Kal-El (a.okay.a. Superman) when he was an toddler, although it was assumed that the robotic was destroyed together with everybody else on Krypton. Later, when the Eradicator, an historic Kryptonian know-how, finally ends up on Earth and begins attempting to remake Krypton, it finally ends up solely making what turns into Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, with Kelex inside.
Kelex connects Superman to his previous
Kelex is to the Fortress of Solitude what Alfred is to Batman’s bat-cave and Wayne Manor, caring for the whole lot whereas Superman is away and aiding him when he is in want. Although Kelex has been within the comics fairly a bit, the robotic’s movie appearances are rather more uncommon — final showing in “Man of Metal” in 2013, voiced by Carla Gugino. Kelex being part of the story means we’ll get the Fortress of Solitude and among the weirder comedian e book parts surrounding Krypton, and that guidelines.
Although the robotic does not look precisely just like the Kelex of the comics, who truthfully appears like a cross between Alpha 5 from “Energy Rangers” and Quantity 5 from “Brief Circuit,” whether it is certainly Kelex then that indicators some probably attention-grabbing issues about “Superman.” Whereas it units up the brand new DC Studios movie universe, it does not seem to be will probably be a full-blown origin story, as an alternative giving us a Clark Kent/Superman who has already accomplished a little bit of reckoning together with his Kryptonian previous. He could have a Fortress of Solitude, a right-hand robotic, and will not simply be a misplaced and confused farm boy attempting to determine what to do together with his superpowers.
There are fairly a number of characters that seem within the trailer that we have not seen a lot of on the cinema (if we have seen them in any respect), however Kelex hints probably the most at what sort of Superman story we’ll get.
“Superman” hits theaters on July 11, 2025.
