Brightburn: Red Sky

Brightburn: Red Sky is a 2025 supervillain Action/Horror movie directed by James Wan and written by James and Mark Gunn, with Brian Gunn serving as executive producer. The film follows the now teenage Brandon Breyer as he tries to keep a low profile while at the same time use his Brightburn persona to take down a politician who is hunting down every single super criminal who were inspired by Brightburn’s terrorism. Things get complicated when he forms a friendship with the politicians son, an aspiring inventor named Walter Wick. Now Brandon must choose between continuing his quest to conquer the earth or end his reign of terror and redeem himself.

Plot:

The film begins with a family watching the news after the ‘Brightburn’ entity took a children’s hospital that was hiding an undercover cop who has been spying on it. The wife starts crying in the kitchen, the camera pans over to a picture, revealing the cop was her brother. The husband comes into the room to grab his two daughters who are watching the incident, putting them to bed while he turns the tv off. The husband tries to console his wife, however, the wife become determined to uncover the truth about what this figure really is. She goes over to a box, revealing she has copies of the photos her brother had. The husband becomes worried that the creature will go after them now, but she believes the creature will never know. However, the youngest comes downstairs, asking for the photos. Confused, the father asks why, which the child replies, “The red angel says he wants them.” The father soon runs upstairs to get his oldest daughter, while the mother tries to sneak out of the house with the photos. However, she notices a pair of glowing red eyes through the peephole of the door. She sneaks back upstairs, only to find her window broken. She calls for her husband, only for his mutilated corpse to drop on top of her. With Brightburn standing over her now, she begs for mercy, only to be killed by his heat vision. The youngest comes back downstairs, asking where her older sister. The camera focuses behind Brightburn and we see a burnt hand underneath the couch with the same pajamas the older sister was wearing. The youngest asks where her parents are, as the camera focuses on the eyes of Brightburn as his eyes glow more and more red.