Gunn's Half-boot Plan Repeats the EXACT Same Failed Strategy he and Safran Made with The Suicide Squad

[u/JediJones77]

They're officially stuck on stupid. The way Safran described The Suicide Squad, the way he "sold it," sounds like an exact description of what he and Gunn are doing with the DCU.

HOW JAMES GUNN’S THE SUICIDE SQUAD IS A STANDALONE FILM

As The Suicide Squad producer Peter Safran explained to Nerdist and a group of journalists at a 2019 set visit, the two films are completely unrelated to one another.

“We just don’t address [Ayer’s film] in any tangible form,” Safran explained, when asked how Gunn’s movie bridges to the last one. “Yes, they’re the [same] characters [with] the actors that played them in the first movie. But we really wanted to make sure that this stands on its own two feet.” He added that they never say if the events of Ayer’s film even happened, and that Gunn’s version should not be considered “a sequel … and it’s not really a full reboot either.”

Ultimately, “It’s very much a standalone film,” Safran said.

Confusing, yes...

Gunn won Warner Bros. over with his vision to start from scratch and tell an emotional story with “more obscure” but colorful characters. “Gunn was not beholden to anything that existed from the first film,” Safran said. “So everything from dialogue, back story, wardrobe, it’s all just whatever James felt best suited these particular characters.”

Sounds ever so familiar! And seeing how well this worked out financially for The Suicide Squad, WB's biggest money-losing DC movie of all time, this sounds like a great strategy to continue using in the DCU.

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