It looks like Warner Bros. is going back to the drawing board for a certain Man of Steel property in the film division of things, as Deadline has confirmed that WB and DC have tapped writer Ta-Nehisi Coates (Black Panther and Captain America) to write a Superman reboot feature, with J.J Abrams producing under his Bad Robot Productions company.
No word on what exactly this new reboot will entail or if it will star Henry Cavill again as the big screen version of Clark Kent/ Superman, but this will be the second time that DC's Big Blue Boy Scout will be redone from scratch. Superman was first played on the big screen by Christopher Reeve in the classic 1978 film of the same name directed by Richard Donner. Reeve would go on to play the hero in three more sequels, after which Brandon Routh took over and played the same version in the semi-reboot sequel Superman Returns in 2006 (which ignored the events of Superman III and IV). Henry Cavill would then play the part in the first reboot for the DC Extended Universe in "Man of Steel" - which was directed by Zack Snyder and paved the way for a cinematic universe shared by "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", "Wonder Woman", and "Justice League".
Currently, Cavill will be seen again as Superman in the upcoming "Zack Snyder's Justice League" set to debut in HBO Max next month. Tyler Hoechlin plays the TV version seen in the Arrowverse - who first appeared in "Supergirl" and is now starring in the newly released TV Series "Superman and Lois".
