“It was just difficult to figure out where I was going to come from with Superman ,” Gunn said speaking to io9 in Los Angeles last week. “And I think that it really started with my dog in a lot of ways. The idea of putting in Krypto, I think, was the fun part for me, because that was something that we hadn’t really seen in a Superman movie.”

For the inaugural Superman movie in the DC Universe, writer/director James Gunn has opted to make Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) the primary villain. Accompanying Luthor are various baddies like Angela Spica/The Engineer,

Krypto’s Wild Origin in James Gunn’s Superman Movie When you think “Superdog,” you probably imagine a loyal, cape-wearing mutt flying alongside Superma