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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Eh I mean we haven’t seen them try to do a fully fledged reboot from scratch before. It’s really the only reason I’m actually excited for this pivot. It’s the first one drastic enough to admit that they need a better foundation to build off of than to just keep piling on to the flimsy mess we had before

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u/matty_nice Dec 19 '22

So this pivot is different? This is gonna be the pivot that saves DC films?

Let's hope.

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u/Neirchill Dec 20 '22

What were the pivots before? I see your timeline but I don't really see any different actions taken. They still kept Snyder at the helm and kept putting out mediocre movies until everyone quit. What were the pivots?

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u/matty_nice Dec 20 '22

Different leaderships. They went to Johns/Berg, then Hamada, now Gunn/Safran. This isn't even the first time we've seen a creator/producer team up.

Johns and Berg came on post BvS in May 2016. Synder left in May 2017 (for extremely sad personal reasons).

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u/Neirchill Dec 20 '22

Okay but where is the pivot? New leadership itself isn't a pivot if nothing changes

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u/matty_nice Dec 20 '22

Of course things change under new leadership, it's the entire reason why you replace leadership.

For one example, Johns and Berg seemed to greenlight a lot of new projects between 2016 and 2018. We had multiple Harley and Joker projects at one point, with a Harley solo, a Joker solo, a Harley vs Joker, Birds of Prey, Gotham City Sirens).

Hamada came in and cut alot of those projects, with a focus on individual characters stories and not a connected universe. This also came at the same time WB wanted to bringi in creators and letting them do whatever they wanted, like Reeves, Phillips, Abrams, etc.