James Gunn and Zack Snyder argue over Superman in ‘Rick And Morty’ skit

James Gunn and Zack Snyder have made cameo appearances in Rick And Morty‘s latest episode.

The DC directors lent their voices to parody versions of themselves in the episode ‘Ricker Than Fiction’ last night (July 6), which sees Rick and Morty dissatisfied with the direction of their favourite franchise Maximum Velocitree.

The titular pair confront Gunn, who is its director – and after being left unhappy with his response, Rick and Morty decide to alter the franchise themselves with their ‘Movie-lizer’ device.

In one scene, Gunn crosses paths with Snyder in a cafeteria, the latter telling his fellow director that he had seen his cut of Superman, joking: “Word of advice – he’s the Man of Steel, not the Man of Conversation. Do more shots of him punching.”

James Gunn and Zack Snyder both appeared in the latest episode of ‘RICK & MORTY’

“Just saw your new cut of ‘Superman.' Word of advice, he’s the ‘Man of Steel,’ not the ‘Man of Conversation.’ Do more shots of him punching!” pic.twitter.com/eLWBVhePIf

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) July 7, 2025

An angered Gunn hits back at him, admitting he’s frustrated because of Rick and Morty, quipping that Snyder’s “biceps are the size of my head”.

“Zack, we’re not losing touch with the audience, are we?” he asks. “I gave notes on the goddamn Count Chocula movie this morning.”

Snyder notes that he’s dealing with Rick, “the guy that sealed [Christopher] Nolan in the giant bookcase to quote-unquote punish him for Interstellar. He doesn’t represent real fans, he’s just the smartest man in the universe. Don’t sweat it, he can’t do what we do… probably.”

The episode then sees Rick and Morty coming up with a better ending, to which Gunn is converted. The director then takes the Movie-lizer’s hard drive to Warner Bros., declaring it could “save Hollywood”, before he is killed by the studio.

Opening up about landing the real Gunn and Snyder to do the voice cameos, show executive producer Scott Marder told Variety that they “were good sports” about the whole thing.

“Both of those guys sort of implied that this is the show they watch when they have downtime,” he added. “So they were thrilled to get to be a part of the world, and there was no pushback or bristling.

“If anything, they laughed at anything we threw at them. There were probably, frankly, even more digs and more silly things we could have used. All they did was laugh it off.”

Gunn is currently prepping the release of his new Superman film, and suggested in a recent interview that the film industry is dying because “people are making movies without a finished screenplay”.

Addressing a recently canned film of his, the director told Rolling Stone: “Everybody wanted to make the movie. It was greenlit, ready to go. The screenplay wasn’t ready. And I couldn’t do a movie where the screenplay’s not good.

“And we’ve been really lucky so far, because Supergirl’s script was so fucking good off the bat. And then Lanterns came in, and the script was so fucking good. Clayface, same thing. So fucking good. So we have these scripts that we’ve been really lucky with or wise in our choices or whatever the combination is.”

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