The former Superman takes issue with the director's comments about the new movie being an immigration allegory: "We know Superman is an immigrant — he's a freaking alien."

"You can’t come in saying, ‘I want to get rid of all the rules in America, because I want it to be more like Somalia.’"

James Gunn wasn’t going to make Superman without finding the perfect Clark Kent, and he made that very clear in a recent interview with GQ , admitting: “I said from the beginning, if I don’t find Superman,

During their six-week shoot in Cleveland, movie Director James Gunn and the “Superman” cast and crew found time to explore and embrace the city’s food scene – frequenting several standout local establishments.

Some fans have long thought of Superman as an immigrant character, as his displacement from his fictional home planet to the United States is a key part of his story.

James Gunn's much-anticipated Superman has set a record-breaking Rotten Tomatoes audience score, placing it above every previous Superman film in history. The fresh take on Superman stars David Corenswet as Clark Kent.

Superman's Rotten Tomatoes score beats Man of Steel. Scroll to see how high Gunn's reboot is flying in critics’ eyes!

During post-production on Superman, writer-director James Gunn ran into a problem. “We found that people loved the movie but that they were confused about the world they were entering,” Gunn told io9 recently. And so, to fix that problem, late in the filmmaking process, he looked to another one of his favorite films for the fix.