The latest blockbuster take on the Man of Steel was such a rousing triumph that writer-director James Gunn is already hard at work on a sequel — appropriately titled Man of Tomorrow — which is currently slated for a wide theatrical release on July 9, 2027. "Brightburn really is what do you do if that superhero that you've adopted into your family ends up not being the greatest thing in the world," James Gunn told SYFY WIRE in 2019. "I think that most of the superhero stuff that I've done is always coming at superheroes from a different angle than they usually are in cinema," Gunn explained during his SYFY WIRE interview. He continued: "Super was the second superhero movie I made, which was about a guy who's a vigilante, but it also examined what drives a person to go beat the crap out of people. Brightburn airs on SYFY several times over the next two weeks.