Long before he brought Superman back to life with his new blockbuster, James Gunn thought of himself as a hero. Back in 2010, the filmmaker — not then as powerful as he is now — directed low-budget dark comedy Super. It starred Rainn Wilson from the US version of The Office as Frank, a loner convinced God wants him to be a superhero. Laughs came from Frank’s homemade costume but they grew uneasy in a film with an oddly violent flavour. “Frank is me, in many ways,” Gunn said then. It didn’t make the comedy any more comfortable.
早在憑藉新片讓超人重返銀幕之前，詹姆士•古恩(James Gunn)就已經把自己視爲英雄。2010年，這位當時還沒有如今這麼有影響力的電影人執導了一部低成本黑色喜劇電影《Super》。影片由美版《辦公室》的雷恩•威爾森(Rainn Wilson)主演，他飾演的弗蘭克是個孤獨者，堅信上帝希望他成爲超級英雄。弗蘭克自制的服裝帶來了不少笑料，但在這部風格怪異、帶有暴力色彩的影片中，觀衆的笑聲逐漸變得不安。「弗蘭克在很多方面就是我自己，」古恩當時說。這並沒有讓這部喜劇變得更讓人舒服。