{"id":2457292,"date":"2025-07-09T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-fall-for-it-new-superman-movies-immigrant-controversy-is-totally-manufactured-by-the-media\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:25:25","slug":"dont-fall-for-it-new-superman-movies-immigrant-controversy-is-totally-manufactured-by-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-fall-for-it-new-superman-movies-immigrant-controversy-is-totally-manufactured-by-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Fall for It: New &#8216;Superman&#8217; Movie&#8217;s Immigrant Controversy Is Totally Manufactured by the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdont-fall-for-it-new-superman-movies-immigrant-controversy-is-totally-manufactured-by-the-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2457292&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the controversy surrounding the upcoming &#8220;Superman&#8221; movie directed by James Gunn, which some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-anyone-more-annoying-or-treacherous-than-barack-obama\/\" title=\"Is Anyone More Annoying or Treacherous than Barack Obama?\">conservative media outlets<\/a> have labeled as excessively &#8220;woke&#8221; and politically charged. Critics claim the film serves as an anti-Trump, pro-immigration allegory, partly based on Gunn referring to Superman as an &#8220;immigrant&#8221; during an interview. However, the article argues that this comment was taken out of context by Variety reporter Marc Malkin, known for stirring cultural controversies. Gunn clarifies that the movie is about kindness and is meant for everyone, not a political statement against any group. The article also highlights how some cast members,like Sean Gunn and Nathan Fillion,supported the film&#8217;s inclusive message amidst backlash. Ultimately, the piece advises readers to wait until the movie&#8217;s release before forming opinions, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >criticizing premature boycotts fueled<\/a> by misleading media framing.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;ve been hanging around social media for long enough this summer, you&rsquo;ve probably heard that the new &ldquo;Superman&rdquo; movie is supposed to be insufferably woke.<\/p>\n<p>While nowadays you have to be on the lookout for virtually every superhero movie pushing some sort of agenda, I was slightly hopefully for the latest reboot. It&rsquo;s directed by James Gunn, best known for his &ldquo;Guardians of the Galaxy&rdquo; movies &mdash; films which didn&rsquo;t bother with hammering the audience over the head with the creators&rsquo; politics.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you&rsquo;ve been listening to conservative radio or podcasts or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/500-preservation-letters-sent-for-investigations-by-gop\/\" title=\"500 &quot;Preservation letters&quot; Sent for Investigations by GOP\">conservative-leaning media<\/a> over the past few days, you know that Gunn &mdash; along with several members of the cast &mdash; seem to have made comments that the latest &ldquo;Superman&rdquo; reboot is basically an anti-Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lesson-learned-nycs-mayor-debacle-goes-beyond-just-illegal-immigration-charlie-kirk-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-immigration<\/a> allegory.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/08\/entertainment\/james-gunn-slammed-for-calling-superman-an-immigrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post&rsquo;s<\/a> headline said it all: &ldquo;&lsquo;Superman&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-comment-wh-comms-director-roasted-for-bizarre-defense-of-bidens-maui-response\/\" title=\"WH Comms Director faces backlash for strange defense of Biden&#039;s Maui reaction.\">director faces backlash<\/a> for calling the Man of Steel an &lsquo;immigrant&rsquo;: &lsquo;Superwoke.&rsquo;&rdquo; Well, that sounds pretty bad. Which, for all I know, it might end up being. However, one important piece of context is missing here: This was a context-denuded comment he made to the real problem here, a reporter from Variety whose core competency is as a culture-war pot-stirrer as a red-carpet interviewer who has has been using various IPs to make points for some time.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re unfamiliar with Marc Malkin of Variety, you may remember a fusillade of interviews for the Marvel Cinematic Universe spinoff &ldquo;Agatha All Along&rdquo; in which he tried to get the cast members to say that it was the &ldquo;gayest Marvel project yet.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Aubrey Plaza responds to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AgathaAllAlong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AgathaAllAlong<\/a> being called the &ldquo;gayest Marvel project yet&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It better be, cause that&rsquo;s what I signed up for!&rdquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vMJZ5u8i7B\">pic.twitter.com\/vMJZ5u8i7B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &#128173; (@agathariothink) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agathariothink\/status\/1835887936748859419?\">September 17, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now, &ldquo;Agatha All Along&rdquo; was not exactly a Christian conservative&rsquo;s cup of tea nor was it anything you should let your teenage kid watch, although I will admit that what I saw of it indicated that it was hardly a superhero version of &ldquo;Queer Eye&rdquo; with an original soundtrack by the Pet Shop Boys. A lot of people bought into the &ldquo;gayest project&rdquo; ever talk, alas &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/boycott-disney-new-marvel-show-hyped-gayest-show-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including, uh, me<\/a>. Mistakes were made.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not going to point out everyone who&rsquo;s fallen for the pseudo-controversy involving Malkin and &ldquo;Superman,&rdquo; but as conservative-leaning fandom site <a href=\"https:\/\/thatparkplace.com\/variety-grossly-misrepresents-apolitical-james-gunn-quote-at-superman-preimiere-as-anti-trump-rant-marc-malkin-strikes-again\/?fsp_sid=687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That Park Place<\/a> noted, this guy basically gave every member of the cast he could get a soundbite from a hefty slice of bait. And James Gunn, in all fairness, didn&rsquo;t really bite.<\/p>\n<p>So, when Malkin said that the new film is &ldquo;an immigrant story, it&rsquo;s a political movie, MAGA today is going nuts,&rdquo; Gunn clarified that this was in no way a statement about them when asked what he &ldquo;had to say to MAGA.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have anything. I think this movie is for everyone,&rdquo; Gunn said, laughing. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have anything to say to anybody. I&rsquo;m not here to judge people. I think this is a movie about kindness, and I think that&rsquo;s something everyone can relate to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">James Gunn responds to MAGA backlash over calling <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Superman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Superman<\/a> an immigrant: &ldquo;I think this movie is about kindness, which everyone can relate to.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kUdzJleUsT\">pic.twitter.com\/kUdzJleUsT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1942404794393719256?\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now, to be fair, Gunn did say in an interview that &ldquo;&lsquo;Superman&rsquo; is the story of America &hellip; an immigrant that came from other places and populated the country &hellip; it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost,&rdquo; per the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>But that says nothing in particular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/post-airstrike-poll-obliterates-maga-civil-war-lie-fake-news-fake-maga-influencers-exposed-frauds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about MAGA<\/a>. Firstly, in case you&rsquo;re unfamiliar with the Superman backstory, he emigrated to Earth from the planet Krypton in a spacecraft &mdash; which, correct me if I&rsquo;m wrong, but we didn&rsquo;t really have any set guidelines for interstellar beings arriving in space capsules back in the 1930s. (It&rsquo;s also worth noting that, under almost any circumstance, having your planet destroyed very legitimately qualifies you for refugee status.)<\/p>\n<p>As for the idea that Superman represents the immigrant experience, that&rsquo;s one interpretation of the comic &mdash; that the character was an inspiration to the legal (can I repeat, <em>legal) <\/em>immigrant communities trying to assimilate in the first half of the 20th century. This isn&rsquo;t about him plowing into the border wall in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-border-photos-expose-bidens-developing-kids-cages-situation-aoc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Paso sector<\/a> faster than a speeding bullet to let a caravan of Venezuelan migrants in. Just saying.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for those who were looking at these comments askance, there were people who took the low-quality bait. For instance, James&rsquo; brother Sean Gunn, who plays villain Maxwell Lord in the film. Aside from that, this is a man whose career highlights include being Kirk on &ldquo;Gilmore Girls&rdquo; and also Kirk on the Netflix &ldquo;Gilmore Girls&rdquo; miniseries and also in the viral TikTok clip of him dancing from an early episode of &ldquo;Gilmore Girls&rdquo; in character as Kirk. He&rsquo;s got range, I tell you what.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, he said, &ldquo;My reaction to [the backlash] is that it is exactly what the movie is about&rdquo; and those who &ldquo;say no to immigrants are against the American way,&rdquo; although after some significant leading from Malkin:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sean Gunn on the MAGA backlash to Superman being called an immigrant: &ldquo;People who say no to immigrants are against the American way.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XgivaD34PE\">pic.twitter.com\/XgivaD34PE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1942377004797682054?\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And here&rsquo;s Nathan Fillion, also in the picture, saying, &ldquo;Somebody needs a hug,&rdquo; when asked about those recreant MAGA types.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nathan Fillion on MAGA backlash to James Gunn calling Superman an immigrant: &ldquo;Somebody needs a hug. It&rsquo;s just a movie guys.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MzVNZMKZ72\">pic.twitter.com\/MzVNZMKZ72<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1942399740232249760?\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But the problem is that they&rsquo;re not the only ones taking the bait. Other conservatives are, as well &mdash; people you and I respect. And what the left is doing is cutting up what they say about the movie &mdash; which, I cannot iterate enough,&nbsp;<em>has not been released yet<\/em> &mdash; and turning their comments into viral clips showing how cray-zee MAGA is.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kellyanne on Superman: We don&rsquo;t go to the movie theater to be lectured to&mdash;<\/p>\n<p>Watters: You know what it says on his cape? MS13 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F1PBPeE9nf\">pic.twitter.com\/F1PBPeE9nf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1942342216539910439?\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Malkin&rsquo;s preposterous red-carpet questions, of course, get no attention from this part of the social media sphere.<\/p>\n<p>Now, does Gunn&rsquo;s &ldquo;Superman&rdquo; make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-suffers-another-blow-new-pixar-movie-bombs-historic-fashion-opening-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixar&rsquo;s &ldquo;Elio&rdquo;<\/a> look like a Clint Eastwood movie? We don&rsquo;t know the answer to that yet. For all we know, this ends up being a disaster &hellip; or, it takes the same approach as his &ldquo;Guardians&rdquo; movies and is fairly tolerable by Hollywood standards.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, here&rsquo;s a word of advice before you hit send on that X post: Wait until the movie comes out. This is one quote from an interview that was pulled way out of context by a notorious culture-war controversialist who wanted to go viral. He got his wish, and the movie doesn&rsquo;t open until Friday. If you&rsquo;re going to boycott anyone before then, boycott Malkin. Heaven knows that after a career of red-carpet hackery that proves you don&rsquo;t hate the establishment media enough, he deserves whatever he has coming to him.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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These days, it seems like nearly every superhero film carries some kind of political message, but I was somewhat optimistic about this reboot since it&#8217;s directed by James Gunn, known for his &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy&#8221; films that didn&#8217;t heavily push political views. However, conservative media and podcasts have recently highlighted comments from Gunn and some cast members suggesting the movie serves as an anti-Trump, pro-immigration allegory. The New York Post&#8217;s headline summed it up: &#8220;&#8216;Superman&#8217; director faces backlash for calling the Man of Steel an &#8216;immigrant&#8217;: &#8216;Superwoke.'&#8221; That sounds negative-and maybe it will be-but there&#8217;s important context missing. The comment was taken out of context during an interview with Variety reporter Marc Malkin, who has a reputation for stirring culture-war controversies rather than conducting straightforward red-carpet interviews. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with Malkin, he previously pushed similar narratives in interviews about Marvel&#8217;s &#8220;Agatha All Along,&#8221; trying to label it as their &#8220;gayest project yet.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Agatha All Along&#8221; wasn&#8217;t exactly aimed at Christian conservatives or suitable for teens; still, despite its reputation and my own initial skepticism about the hype around its so-called &#8220;gayest project&#8221; status-which I admit I bought into-Malkin tends to bait interviewees into making provocative statements. Many fell for his tactics regarding &#8220;Superman,&#8221; though James Gunn himself largely avoided taking the bait.<\/p>\n<p>When Malkin claimed the film is &#8220;an immigrant story&#8221; and &#8220;a political movie&#8221; causing MAGA supporters to react strongly, Gunn clarified that he wasn&#8217;t addressing MAGA directly when asked what he had to say to them: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have anything&#8230; This movie is for everyone,&#8221; he said with a laugh. &#8220;I&#8217;m not here to judge people&#8230; It&#8217;s a movie about kindness-a value everyone can relate to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gunn also mentioned in another interview that &#8220;&#8216;Superman&#8217; is America&#8217;s story\u2026 an immigrant who came from elsewhere\u2026 It emphasizes basic human kindness-a value we seem to have lost.&#8221; But this doesn&#8217;t specifically target MAGA supporters.<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with Superman&#8217;s origins: He arrived on Earth from Krypton via spacecraft-long before any real-world immigration policies existed-and having your home planet destroyed certainly qualifies him as a refugee under any reasonable definition. Interpreting Superman as representing immigrants isn&#8217;t new; many see him as symbolizing legal immigrants assimilating into America during the early 20th century-not someone breaking through border walls or endorsing open borders.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this nuance, some people took Malkin&#8217;s bait-including Sean Gunn (James&#8217; brother), who plays villain Maxwell Lord in the film. Known mostly for playing Kirk on &#8220;Gilmore Girls,&#8221; Sean commented that backlash against calling Superman an immigrant reflects exactly what the movie addresses-that opposing immigrants goes against American values-after prompting from Malkin.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Nathan Fillion responded humorously when asked about MAGA critics: &#8220;Somebody needs a hug-it&#8217;s just a movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, these remarks are being clipped and shared by left-leaning outlets portraying MAGA supporters as overreacting crazily-even though none of these comments reflect final opinions on a film not yet released.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative voices like Kellyanne Conway have criticized such politicization too (&#8220;We don&#8217;t go to movies to be lectured&#8221;), while clips highlighting absurd red-carpet questions by reporters like Malkin get little attention among conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Whether James Gunn&#8217;s Superman ends up more politically charged than Pixar&#8217;s recent films remains unknown-it could flop or follow his previous work&#8217;s relatively moderate tone.<\/p>\n<p>My advice? Hold off judgment until after seeing the film itself rather than reacting prematurely based on one out-of-context quote amplified by a culture-war provocateur seeking viral moments. 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