‘Brightburn’ Clip: A Burgeoning Supervillain Discovers One Of His Powers
What if there was something a little bitoffabout Superman when he was a kid? What if a boy with such immense power let his worst impulses control him and he made the turn into a full-blown supervillain? That’s the premise ofBrightburn, and Sony Pictures has released a new clip from the movie featuring a key moment when the troubled kid at the story’s center (Jackson A. Dunn) discovers one of his superpowers. Check out the newBrightburnclip below.
Brightburn Clip
While we’d seen some imagery from this clip in the film’s full trailer, this is the first time we’re seeing it with its intended audio track, which not only includes the thumping of the lawn mower’s whirring blades, but some weird, almost demonic whispers and low-pitched voices. It’s too early to know if this is the film’s attempt to comment on the often-inexplicable destructive tendencies some of us occasionally feel, if this is just going to be a trashy, almost exploitation-style twist on the superhero genre, or maybe a little of both.
I also couldn’t help but draw a parallel between this boy realizing his newfound strength and toxic idiots discovering an outlet for their hatred on the internet. Considering howBrightburnproducerJames Gunnwas fired fromGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3thanks in large part to a bad-faith campaign organized by far-right online trolls, that parallel may be impossible to ignore. (Thankfully, Gunn hassince been reinstatedas the director of that sequel.)
Dunn – who, funnily enough, just appeared inAvengers: Endgameas the twelve-year-old version of Scott Lang during that movie’s comical first time travel sequence – really leans into the dead-behind-the-eyes eeriness of this character, and his smile at the end is intensely creepy and terrifying because of what it portends.
Brightburnis directed byDavid Yarovesky(The Hive), written byMarkandBrian Gunn(James' cousin and brother, respectively), and stars Jackson A. Dunn,Elizabeth Banks(The Hunger Games),David Denman(The Office),Matt Jones(Breaking Bad), andMeredith Hagner(Search Party). Here’s the movie’s official synopsis:
