Move over Benji and Lassie. One of the scene stealers to look forward to in James Gunn‘s new Superman movie is the Man of Steel’s best friend, that being Krypto the dog.

In a moving moment in the trailer, a bloodied Superman who has fallen to a snowy Earth suddenly whistles and out of the blue we see a storm in the distance as Krypto the dog comes to some form of a rescue.

Said Gunn at a presser for the trailer about including the canine in this live-action version of Superman: “I think we’re seeing that from the beginning we’re seeing a little bit of a different side of Superman than what we’ve seen.”

“This movie at the end of the day is not about power. This movie is about a loose term of the word a human being and who he is as a person and virtually struggling in his day-to-day life, and we see a different aspect of him in the beginning.”

“His relationship with Krypto is complicated. He’s not nearly the best dog. There’s a lot more to Krypto than you see in this trailer.”

“It was a way of saying we’re embracing all of the Superman mythology,” Gunn continued, “These superhero movies have taken characters and said ‘Okay, yeah, it’s Batman, but it’s not any of the other stuff. It’s Superman, but it’s not any of the other stuff.”

“He lives in a world of superheroes. This is an alternative history world where superheroes exist but it’s also incredibly grounded. It’s about real people having real lives, there just happens to be metahumans there. Superman has friends who are other superheroes.”

“He’s got a flying dog, he’s got a giant fortress,” adds Gunn, “He has a lot of the things we love from the Superman comics and mythology that we haven’t been able to see as much of in a film and definitely haven’t been able to in a grounded way.”