Whatwouldyou do if the alien baby you raised as your own son started to display super-strength and laser-beam eyes just as the residents of your town started to go missing? This is the relatable predicament Tori and Kyle Breyer (Elizabeth BanksandDavid Denman) find themselves in over the course ofBrightburn, the super-hero-horror hybrid directed byDavid Yaroveskyand produced byJames Gunn. When an aircraft lands in rural Kansas with a child inside, Tori and Kyle raise the boy as Brandan Breyer (Jackson A. Dunn). Things go great, until the locked-away spaceship starts glowing an ominous red and putting the thought in Brandan’s head that he needs to “take the world…”
Before the film’s premiere, I sat down with Jackson A. Dunn and David Denman to discuss whether they thought Brandan’s origin story was more “realistic” than Superman’s, what steps Denman would take should his son hypothetically start shooting lasers out of his eyes, the film’s practical effects, and more. Check out what he had to say in the player above, and below is exactly what we talked about.Brightburnalso starsMatt Jones,Meredith Hagner,Steve Agee, andBecky Wahlstrom.
Here is the official synopsis forBrightburn:
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? With Brightburn, the visionary filmmaker of Guardians of the Galaxy and Slither presents a startling, subversive take on a radical new genre: superhero horror.
