What's Up With The Number 3 In The 'Superman' Intro? James Gunn Explains #shorts

James Gunn reveals why he went with that "Superman" opening to explain the hero's origin, and the reasoning behind the number 3.

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00:00Why the number three, and do you think that there's going to be similar openings throughout

00:08these DC movies?

00:09Not necessarily.

00:10I mean, I think that, first of all, there's no reason for the number three.

00:14It's something that Alan Moore has done before with repetitive use of the same number, so

00:18that's all it is.

00:19And three just happened to be the one that fit.

00:22And it really is there for the beginning of our journey in the DCU just to give us a grounding

00:28of the fact that we're entering a world where metahumans, what we call superheroes, also

00:34exist, and that Superman has been around for a little while.

00:37For anyone who doesn't know, for the three or four people in the entire world that don't

00:42know Superman came from Krypton as a baby, we get to tell them that.

00:46You know, and also as a signal to people, basically, yeah, we're not going to explain.

00:50This is the origin, so you don't have to worry about getting bored when you're expecting to

00:54see flashbacks in the first act.

00:56But we've seen his origin enough.