Superman: The Movie made us believe a man can fly. Nearly half a century later, James Gunn’s Superman movie wants us to believe we can soar. The 1978 film directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel released at a time when the American Way was in turmoil

Director Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie, which premiered in 1978, is a classic piece of cinema that continues to shape the superhero genre today. Most recently, it led the way for writer-director James Gunn to release Superman, a more modern imagining of the Man of Steel’s adventures, with David Corenswet portraying the titular hero.

James Gunn isn’t trying to reinvent Superman . He’s trying to remind us why he mattered in the first place. In a recent episode of Grave Conversations hosted by The Suicide Squad 's David Dastmalchian ,