If you like The Boys, you will also love Brightburn – Son of Darkness: The superhero horror could pass as an overly long episode of the brutal Amazon series. The film, produced by DC boss James Gunn, was released in cinemas in 2019. Although it grossed $33 million on a budget of just $6 million, there have been no plans for a sequel. That has just changed.
Brightburn is an over-brutal version of Superman – with a really nasty ending
In Brightburn, a child from another world (Jackson A. Dunn) crash-lands on Earth. A couple who want to have children (Elizabeth Banks and David Denman) take it up. As the boy named Brandon grows older, it turns out that he has extraordinary powers. And brutal incidents are increasing in rural areas.
As Deadline reports, H Collective is working on a sequel to Brightburn. James Gunn also holds part of the rights. The company wants to incorporate various modern technologies such as the Metaverse, Web3 and artificial intelligence into the production of films – “without overshadowing the irreplaceable human touch in the film”, is it[called
Brightburn’s ending forces a The Boys-style sequel
spoiler: The film ends with an extremely bleak outlook. Unlike the Clark Kent/Superman role model, Brandon doesn’t develop into a hero, but rather a villain. In a Brightburn end credits scene, we see a taste of what the villain is capable of. Brandon could destroy the whole world – the superhero satire The Boys also works with exactly this tension when staging the cruel “hero” Homelander.
When is Brightburn 2 coming?
There are still only rough plans for the Brightburn sequel. If development continues stringently, we can Expect a start in Germany in two years.
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