Hollywood is a casino royale of creativity, where the spotlight shines bright, but the stakes are higher. Sony’s Spider-Man Universe made a super-sized gamble on a teenage animator, and it paid off in spades. But just as James Gunn’s Superman was taking flight with its teaser trailer, the same animator delivered a Kryptonite-sized twist that left fans up, up, and away, still reeling from the shock. While Hollywood has always been a high-stakes game of chance where stars roll the dice for relevance, this LEGO super shocker had fans struggling to come down to earth.

Preston Mutanga, a 16-year-old animator who curated the LEGO sequence for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse when he was 14, recreated the entire Superman teaser trailer in LEGO. The young animator shared it after days of hints, tagging James Gunn, David Corenswet, DC’s official social media handle alongside Warner Bros. Pictures. While the LEGO sequence of Spider-Verse was a showstopper that made headlines year long, the Superman recreation is treading a similar discourse of frenzy. 

Previously, Preston Mutanga made a LEGO version of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer, leading to his hiring for the movie’s very own LEGO scene. Although back in the day, the studio’s top dogs confronted quite a dilemma about whether hiring the then 14-year-old was even legal, it soon became a dream come true for Mutanga when the job offer came his way. Now that fans have been treated to another LEGO edition with a comic jumpship from Marvel to DC, fans are back to square one.

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Spellbound by the sheer talent and the creative genius, fans are speechless by Preston Mutanga’s craft. 

James Gunn’s Superman trailer has already had fans buckling their seatbelts for a wild ride in 2025. Having already turned a page in the record books of DCU, Superman is poised to make the next summer a blockbuster. However, after the fan trailer from Preston Mutanga, comic geeks now have doubled down on the celebration, cueing the party is only getting started.

Many fans found the LEGO edition better than the original, as plenty of them were floored with the attention to detail.

Fans familiar with his work were left star-stuck with their jaws dropping like metropolis skyscrapers as they marveled at his ever-upward trajectory of artistic excellence. Netizens were abuzz, pinpointing the scenes that hit home the most, with many wondering how he achieved such heroic feats of creativity. Although the Man of Steel’s official takeoff is still on the horizon, the LEGO edition has soared to new heights, leaving some to ponder whether the original will live up to its brick-built successor.

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