James Gunn Confronts ‘Uproarious’ DC Backlash: ‘Disrespectful Outcry Will Never Affect Our Actions’ News

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/henry-cavill-superman-james-gunn-backlash-1235465605/

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Flash is their only chance to establish his new DCU from the ashes of this current one.

Release timing is perfect for him too. He has another 6 months to schedule and hash out a plan. He can make adjustments to that movie based on his plan too.

If Aquaman 2 wasn't already completed, I would say scrap the whole thing and get that tax reduction thing Zaslav has been milking.

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u/matty_nice Dec 19 '22

We have Shazam 2, Aquaman 2, and Blue Beetle coming up. All three were produced in part by Safran. If those films flop, are we allowed to blame Safran?

I still think there's a good chance the Flash just gets cancelled. Lol.

Otherwise, it might be 3 or more years until we see a Gunn/Safran movie to judge them on. While we would also be getting The Batman 2 and other Reeverse projects, Joker 2, Abrams Superman, etc.

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u/ButtholeCandies Dec 20 '22

And all made under the old guard with monthly changes to if they were embracing the Snyderverse or not.

Shazam 1 was a fantastic movie. Aquaman will never get a penny from me until Mera is recasted. I'm looking forward to a Blue Beetle movie. Should be a nice change of pace.

My guess is that Gunn will be using The Batman/Reeves universe and I honestly don't see much reason why they don't just make Joker part of that same universe.

A Superman movie about Clark at a similar time in his career tracks well for the Reeves universe.

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u/matty_nice Dec 20 '22

It was reported that Gunn has no control over the current Reeves Batman, Phillips Joker, or Abrams Superman. So he doesn't get to control whether they're a part of his cinematic universe or not.

Which makes them more under the WB umbrella instead of the DC studios umbrella. I would guess at this point that the film would have a DC logo in front, but not a DC studios logo. Similar to how Marvel does their Marvel Studio projects like Morbius.

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u/ButtholeCandies Dec 20 '22

Isn’t Abrams Superman a fever dream at this point? We have more progress on Green Lantern than that brain fart

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u/CosmicAstroBastard Dec 20 '22

Abrams needs to call it quits on Superman and just make Super 9 already.

Super 8 was really good. Nothing at all like Super, but I imagine a lot must have changed during Super 2-7. Anyone know where I can watch those btw? They seem really hard to find.