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James Gunn and ‘Superman’ Cast Laugh Off MAGA Freakout Over Hero’s Immigrant Origins

James Gunn dismissed the far-right and Fox News backlash to the essential fact that 'Superman' has always been an immigration story.

Those with even the most basic knowledge of the story would not have been surprised to hear what filmmaker James Gunn — director of the highly-anticipated Superman reboot — stated plainly in a recent interview with The Sunday Times. Fox News and similar corners of the internet were ablaze with myopic insistences that any inclusion of, or even nod to, this rather essential, commonplace, and well-known part of the Superman backstory made the new movie, somehow, another piece of woke Hollywood nonsense. (Never mind the fact, too, that the iconic hero was created by the sons of European Jewish immigrants, writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster.)

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