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**SUPERMAN HENRY CAVILL COMEBACK NOW — Right after acquiring Warner Bros., Netflix immediately revived a Superman project, bringing Henry Cavill into a completely new DC Universe that is fully independent from James Gunn’s DCU. Full story below **

Los Angeles, 6 December 2025 – 03:17 a.m. PST

The earthquake hit Hollywood without warning, and it came from the one place nobody expected: Netflix.

At 03:00 a.m. Pacific Time, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission quietly published an 8-K filing that will go down as the biggest shock in entertainment history. Netflix Inc. has completed a $142 billion all-cash acquisition of Warner Bros.

Discovery, outbidding every legacy studio and private-equity consortium in a 72-hour auction that ended only minutes ago.

By 03:17 a.m., the second bomb dropped.

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos and newly appointed Warner Bros. Netflix Division chairman David Zaslav held an emergency Zoom press conference from the historic Warner lot in Burbank. Behind them, lit in dramatic red and blue, hung the original 1938 Superman shield from the Max Fleischer cartoons.

Sarandos didn’t waste time on pleasantries.

“Effective immediately, we are green-lighting MAN OF TOMORROW – a brand-new standalone Superman film starring Henry Cavill. This is not a reboot of the DCEU. This is not part of James Gunn’s DCU.

This is a completely independent cinematic universe owned 100 % by Netflix, built from the ground up to honour the 80-plus years of Superman mythology. Henry has signed a nine-picture deal. The first film begins shooting in Australia in March 2026.”

The internet imploded.

Within eight minutes, #HenryIsBack was the fastest trending topic ever recorded, surpassing even the Taylor Swift–Travis Kelce Super Bowl kiss. The original 2013 Man of Steel trailer was instantly the most-watched video on YouTube again, 12 years after release.

According to four independent sources inside the deal (two from Netflix corporate, one from Cavill’s production company Promethean, and one from the former WBD board), the acquisition and the Superman announcement were deliberately timed to happen together.

“Ted wanted the world to wake up to one single truth,” one executive told me on condition of anonymity. “Netflix didn’t just buy a studio. We bought the one character that still matters more than the entire Marvel slate combined. And we bought hope.”

The genesis apparently goes back to July 2025, when secret talks began between Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters and Cavill’s manager Dany Garcia.

Henry, still stinging from the 2022 cancellation of his Superman cameo and the public pivot to Gunn’s reboot, had one non-negotiable demand: full creative control and a promise that the character would never again be treated as “IP to be shuffled.” Netflix reportedly replied with a single slide deck titled “What if Superman belonged to the people again?”

The deal that closed tonight includes:

– A new “Netflix DC” label that will live completely separate from Gunn/Peter Safran’s DC Studios (which remains at Universal after a complex carve-out). – Henry Cavill as star, producer, and final-cut overseer on all Superman-led projects.

– Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning) attached to write and direct the first film. – Ludwig Göransson scoring. – A budget north of $325 million for MAN OF TOMORROW alone, making it the most expensive single film in Netflix history.

Most shocking of all: the story is said to be a direct continuation of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, ignoring the 2022 “soft reset.” Post-credit scenes from the unreleased 2023 cut of Justice League (the fabled “Snyder Cut Part II” that was shelved) will be canonised.

Darkseid is the big bad. The Knightmare future is real. And yes, sources swear Henry has personally insisted that the black suit will appear in the final act.

Henry himself broke his silence at 04:02 a.m. London time with a single Instagram post: a 17-second black-and-white video of him standing on his balcony at dawn, wearing the original 2013 Reiss suit from the Man of Steel premiere. He looks straight into camera and says, voice steady:

“I never stopped believing he could come back. Thank you for never stopping either. See you in the sky.”

No caption. Just the S-shield emoji.

By sunrise, Netflix stock was up 28 %. Warner Bros. Discovery debt holders reportedly threw a party in Midtown Manhattan. James Gunn posted a classy statement: “Two different universes, one shared love for these characters. Fly high, Henry.”

And somewhere in a group chat that leaked thirty seconds later, Dwayne Johnson typed: “Welcome to the new era, brother. The hierarchy of power just changed for good.”

As of this writing, the Netflix app banner worldwide is nothing but the Superman shield slowly materialising out of red smoke, with the words:

MAN OF TOMORROW  HENRY CAVILL  2027

The world collectively exhaled a breath it had been holding since 2017.

Henry Cavill is Superman again.  Not in someone else’s universe.  In his own.

And this time, nobody can take the cape away.