The 2022 film was an outlier, free from the usual superhero trappings and resolutely downbeat, and the follow-up should also go beyond the conventional

This fourth adaptation of DC’s least-likely heroes combines an inspired storyline with some very pedestrian combat

Netflix viewers love Snyder’s critically mauled sci-fi film and Christopher Nolan has suggested he is a seminal influence. Is this a triumphant rise from the ashes of the DC extended universe ?

The 33-year-old is an excellent character actor – but can the kid from About a Boy ever really be a match for Superman? Or will it be like when Jesse Eisenberg was miscast in the same role in Dawn of Justice?

The director says her character was never intended to feature in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the studio claims a lack of chemistry – but fans can’t help but suspect the actor’s public shaming is to blame for her greatly reduced role

It’s on to its third reshoot and has lost two Batmans but is Jason Momoa’s protector of the deep destined for a watery grave? Warning: contains The Flash spoilers

He lost out when 1989’s Tim Burton-helmed Superman Lives was canned, but The Flash, Warner DC’s first venture into the multiverse, could see the actor finally do his thing in the red cape