Cavill will create a game with Google

Henry Cavill is going to make a video game, and Google called him. On Tuesday, the 29th, the company announced that the actor will use Googlebook, its new line of notebooks, to create a game from scratch. The result appears in November.

For those who have just arrived: Cavill was Zack Snyder’s Superman in Man of Steel, Batman v Superman and Justice League. Off screen, he is one of the most famous gamers in Hollywood, and according to Google itself, it was this love for games and computers that led the company to him. He says he asked to test the notebook before launch.

After being hands on and spending some time with their team, I believe this has the potential to be the start of something rather special.

Henry Cavill in the Google ad, 29/09/2026, according to 9to5Google

What game this is, no one said, not even the genre. Google only warns that the notebook is full of artificial intelligence tools to help with the process, and that the news comes out on Android’s Instagram.

But the detail that caught DC fans was something else. In the campaign photos, Cavill appears with a mustache. And the official Google account on X responded to the announcement with “we think it’s going to be super”, with a wink at the end.

And a mustache with Superman has history. In 2017, Cavill was filming Mission: Impossible, Fallout, with a mustache, when Warner called him to reshoot Justice League, without Snyder in charge. Paramount, owner of Mission: Impossible, didn’t let him shave it, and Warner erased the mustache on the computer. The digital lip became a joke all over the world. But Zack Snyder’s Justice League, from 2021, didn’t use any of those reshoots, so in his cut this problem never existed.

Now look at the way the world is turning. Paramount, the studio that held that mustache, should close the purchase of Warner and DC on Tuesday, the 6th. And Google, which has nothing to do with this, knows very well who Superman is for this audience. In November we see the game.