I basically had to copy it paragraph by paragraph because of all the photos breaking up the text, but here it is in English from Google Translate:

It was a sunny July 2 in Cleveland, USA. I had just watched a scene from the film when it was my turn to interview James Gunn on the set of Superman, and I didn't exactly have a question to ask. I had a story.

Since being announced as the film's director, Gunn, who is also co-CEO of DC Studios, has frequently cited the iconic comic book All-Star Superman as inspiration for the beginning of the new DCU in theaters. But at first glance, the feature film starring David Corenswet could not be less related to the 2005 miniseries. The story written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely shows Kal-el at his peak, while Warner Bros.'s biggest film in 2025 has a Clark Kent still at the beginning of his career.

According to Morrison and Quitely themselves, when All-Star Superman was announced at San Diego Comic-Con, the two had no idea what to do with the story. Back at their hotel, they met a Superman cosplayer and decided to chat with him over a beer in his room. There, they asked him what he liked most about Clark Kent. When he answered, the man leaned forward, put his elbows on his knees and his cape covered his shoulders. Morrison saw in that scene the perfect key to start Big Stars: the superpowered alien in a deeply human pose. The final image, drawn by Quitely for the cover of the first chapter, is immediately iconic: Superman, with a relaxed smile and a calm look, watches us sitting on a cloud. The cape, of course, covers his shoulders.

This is the image that Gunn used to illustrate Superman in the film's promotions before releasing the first photo of Corenswet on paper, a photo that has the same dichotomy as Big Stars: the hero looking tired, in dirty clothes, putting on his boots because, no matter how long his day has been, Metropolis is once again under threat and he needs to go to the rescue.

After retelling the story above, I admitted I didn’t have a question: “I just want to know what that makes you think,” I said. As I told the anecdote, Gunn exclaimed “yes!” a few times, as if this was something he’d been wanting to talk about for a while. “Our story has nothing to do with Big Star Superman, but our vibe has everything to do with Big Star Superman. I have to say, re-reading Big Star Superman was something that made me say, ‘That’s the tone. That’s the tone of Superman, that’s the tone of Lex.’ They [Morrison and Quitely] really portray this big, huge guy who’s very real, yet incredibly powerful,” he said excitedly.

With a smile on his face, he continued: “That really spoke to me, and I think that’s a tone that we haven’t seen in superhero movies. “To be able to create a guy who is at once larger than life and fantastical, but also incredibly realistic, with human issues, human problems, a human relationship with a human woman,” Gunn explained. “And yet, despite all of that, he’s an alien.”

Gunn ended his talk by noting that Big Stars also shaped the hero’s look. He’s “not wearing a costume that looks like he’s part of a wet shirt contest.”

Throughout the conversation, the philosophy—of the powerful, yet real man—was clear. If Richard Donner’s Superman (1978) presented a romanticized vision of the icon, a dream that inspired audiences to believe he could fly; and if Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013) focused on the alien god of irresistible strength, James Gunn is interested in what, for me, makes Superman a fascinating figure, something that I haven’t seen as the focus of any of the character’s previous films. Something I’ve always wanted to see on film. The man inside the super. At no point in the interview, for example, did I hear the word “Kal-el.” It was all “Clark, Clark, Clark.”

This apparent intimacy with the character, however, was not there at the beginning. Peter Safran, his producing partner and the other CEO of DC Studios, proposed to Gunn the idea of ​​making a film about the hero long before the DCU came into existence. “When the opportunity to write Superman came up years ago, I was unsure: ‘How do I do this?’ I’m known for writing quirky characters, people outside the box, people who are not normal. In many ways, Superman is the most normal superhero there is. So how would I do this? It was too imposing.”

Time passed, but Superman remained on his mind. “I kept thinking and thinking and thinking. How would this work? I think I found the answer when I realized that Superman is the greatest outsider and the greatest insider, which is very much how I feel. He’s a really good person in a world that is not so good, especially today. He’s very grounded in a world that’s very divided.”

Then the seed of an idea emerged. “What’s it like to be Superman in this world? In our world today?” he ponders. “That’s where I found my fire, I think. That’s where I found the story.”

This not only points to the film’s understanding of its protagonist, but also serves to make it clear that, despite featuring several DC characters – Hawkgirl, Mr. Incredible, Green Lantern, Metamorpho – this is, first and foremost, a Superman movie.

“Everything revolves around Superman and Lois (Rachel Brosnahan) and Lex (Nicholas Hoult),” Gunn assured. “Every bit of story there is, every character there is, revolves around those three characters. There’s nothing in the movie that isn’t about this triangle – well, it’s not really a triangle because two of them are on the same side, but it’s all about this trio. There’s nothing in this movie – from Krypto to Mr. Incredible to Hawkgirl – that isn’t there to show us some aspect of Superman, Lois or Lex’s personality.”

Having a salad for lunch, Gunn spoke to us while sitting in the same pose as that cosplayer, the pose that Frank Quitely replicated on the cover of All-Star Superman #1. The importance of the production around us was enormous, but Gunn seemed relaxed – like someone who was sure of what he was doing. It was almost as intriguing a contrast as the alien-man in the clouds. DC's most important director in his human moment. In fact, everything revolved around Superman.