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Tori and Kyle Breyer want a child and cannot have one. A spaceship crashes in the woods near their Kansas farm, and they find a baby inside and raise him as their son, Brandon, telling him only that he came from an agency. Brandon is bright, curious and helpful around the farm, and he has never bled. As he nears twelve, he begins speaking in a language no one knows and slipping away to the barn, where the ship is kept locked in storage. Mowing the lawn, he learns his own strength is indestructible. At his birthday dinner at the local diner, his uncle Noah gives him a rifle and Kyle refuses to let him keep it; Brandon shouts at Kyle until the family leaves.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Brightburn (2019)
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- Plans to promote Brightburn at 2018 San Diego Comic-Con were pulled at the last minute following James Gunn's removal from Walt Disney Studios and Marvel Studios; Disney and Marvel reconciled with him nine months later.
- In the UK, a censored version of Brightburn was released on June 19, 2019, after the studio reduced the level of violence to meet their preferred age certificate.
- Brightburn's middle school scenes were shot at the now-defunct Patrick Henry High School in Stockbridge, Georgia, the same location used for Hawkins Middle and Hawkins High Schools in Netflix's Stranger Things.
- The building collapse in Brightburn's mid-credits scene uses real footage from the demolition of the Sir John Carling Building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on July 13, 2014.
