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Post by politicidal1 on Jun 19, 2023 14:11:17 GMT
From the Hollywood Reporter: The Flash, as it was originally conceived and shot, ended on the courthouse steps with Supergirl, played by Sasha Calle, and Batman, played by Michael Keaton, who was already featured throughout the movie as a returned Batman. It was meant to highlight that Barry did not reset the timeline as he thought he did. It was an ending that was screen tested several times, one that reversed the deaths of Supergirl and Batman earlier in the film. However, the movie got caught in the lightning storm that was Discovery’s acquisition of Warner Bros. in 2022. Emmerich and Hamada were ousted, and Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was on the hunt for an executive to run DC. In the meantime, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were installed as Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairpersons and CEOs. They were tasked with overseeing DC in the meantime, and suddenly and certainly not unexpectedly they had their own plans. A new The Flash ending was conceived. This new version was still on the courthouse steps, but now Calle’s Supergirl was joined by Superman, played by Henry Cavill, and Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot. Keaton also remained. De Luca and Abdy believed they were being strategic with the ending. Cavill was going to cameo for DC movie Black Adam and was being teed up to return to the role in a brand new Superman movie. Supergirl was retained because even though the executives were killing the development of a standalone Supergirl movie, they were open to her returning in some form and didn’t want the last image audiences saw of her to be her death at the hands of a supervillain (Michael Shannon’s General Zod). Meanwhile, the studio was developing a third installment of Wonder Woman with filmmaker Patty Jenkins and star Gadot. This was a nice way to keep Wonder Woman in the cultural conversation. This ending was shot in September involving Miller, Cavill and Gadot as well as Keaton and Calle. Then came another lightning strike. In November, Zaslav announced that filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran were to run DC Studios, overseeing all DC film and television efforts. And suddenly and certainly not unexpectedly, they had their own plans. Knowing they were resetting the DC universe under their own vision, Gunn and Safran saw that having Cavill and Gadot in the new ending was potentially promising something their plans were not going to deliver. One of the first actions the duo took was to scrap the Cavill Superman film, and they parted ways with Jenkins, effectively killing the third Wonder Woman installment. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/the-flash-inside-george-clooney-return-batman-1235517975/#recipient_hashed=4099e28fd37d67ae86c8ecfc73a6b7b652abdcdb75a184f8cf1f8015afde10e9&recipient_salt=f7bfecc7d62e4c672635670829cb8f9e0e2053aced394fb57d9da6937cf0601a
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Post by politicidal1 on Jun 26, 2023 16:11:24 GMT
Gunn shares his thoughts on the state of the superhero genre while on a podcast: Joining the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn called out both the quantity and the quality of the string of superhero movies that have been released in the last few years. Rosenbaum reminisced on his time playing Lex Luthor in Smallville on the Warner Bros TV Network and The CW, with Gunn chiming in that there are "too many" superhero properties compared to when that show ran from 2001 to 2011: Rosenbaum: "Do you think that there are too many superhero shows and movies? Because I remember when I did 'Smallville', there were none." Gunn: 'Yeah, I do think there’s too many." When asked about what he wants to do about that, Gunn made it clear that the DC team isn't "going to overextend [itself]" and will make sure that every movie and TV show brings the quality that fans expect: "But I don’t think it’s… It’s much less a problem of too many. And yes… we’re not going to overextend ourselves at DC. We’re going to be very careful with the product that we put out and making sure everything is as good as it can possibly be."
Gunn bluntly noted that creators "have gotten really lazy with their superhero stories," commenting on how so many focus on the chances of making a sequel rather than making the first movie something special that stands out: "But I think that what’s happened is, people have gotten really lazy with their superhero stories. And they have gotten to the place where, 'Oh, it’s a superhero, let’s make a movie about it.' And they make, ‘Oh, let’s make a sequel, because the first one did pretty well,’ and they aren’t thinking about, 'Why is this story special? What makes this story stand apart from other stories? What is the story at the heart of it all? Why is this character important? What makes this story different that it fills a need for people in theaters to go see? Or on television?'"
He also got specific and pointed out that the "third acts of superhero films" he's seen recently don't make a lot of sense or have a lot of "reason to what’s happening," leading to him not caring so much about the characters: "And I think that it’s just that… people have gotten a little lazy and there’s a lot of biff, pow, bam stuff happening in movies and I’m watching third acts of superhero films where I really just don’t feel like there’s a rhyme or reason to what’s happening… I don’t care about the characters. And they’ve gotten too generic."
Gunn sees a number of "middle-of-the-road" kinds of movies that don't utilize very many "different genres," wanting to see something other than "the same story told over and over again:" "There’s this sort of middle-of-the-road, type of genre/tone that so many superhero movies have as opposed to having very different genres. I mean, I like very serious superhero movies, I like very comedic superhero movies, I like ones that are a murder mystery but it’s with superheroes. I like to see these different types of stories, as opposed to seeing the same story told over and over again. I don’t know how many times I… I don’t want to go off on anything…" thedirect.com/article/dc-superhero-movies-recent-lazy
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2023 18:42:35 GMT
Gunn shares his thoughts on the state of the superhero genre while on a podcast: Joining the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn called out both the quantity and the quality of the string of superhero movies that have been released in the last few years. Rosenbaum reminisced on his time playing Lex Luthor in Smallville on the Warner Bros TV Network and The CW, with Gunn chiming in that there are "too many" superhero properties compared to when that show ran from 2001 to 2011: Rosenbaum: "Do you think that there are too many superhero shows and movies? Because I remember when I did 'Smallville', there were none." Gunn: 'Yeah, I do think there’s too many." When asked about what he wants to do about that, Gunn made it clear that the DC team isn't "going to overextend [itself]" and will make sure that every movie and TV show brings the quality that fans expect: "But I don’t think it’s… It’s much less a problem of too many. And yes… we’re not going to overextend ourselves at DC. We’re going to be very careful with the product that we put out and making sure everything is as good as it can possibly be."
Gunn bluntly noted that creators "have gotten really lazy with their superhero stories," commenting on how so many focus on the chances of making a sequel rather than making the first movie something special that stands out: "But I think that what’s happened is, people have gotten really lazy with their superhero stories. And they have gotten to the place where, 'Oh, it’s a superhero, let’s make a movie about it.' And they make, ‘Oh, let’s make a sequel, because the first one did pretty well,’ and they aren’t thinking about, 'Why is this story special? What makes this story stand apart from other stories? What is the story at the heart of it all? Why is this character important? What makes this story different that it fills a need for people in theaters to go see? Or on television?'"
He also got specific and pointed out that the "third acts of superhero films" he's seen recently don't make a lot of sense or have a lot of "reason to what’s happening," leading to him not caring so much about the characters: "And I think that it’s just that… people have gotten a little lazy and there’s a lot of biff, pow, bam stuff happening in movies and I’m watching third acts of superhero films where I really just don’t feel like there’s a rhyme or reason to what’s happening… I don’t care about the characters. And they’ve gotten too generic."
Gunn sees a number of "middle-of-the-road" kinds of movies that don't utilize very many "different genres," wanting to see something other than "the same story told over and over again:" "There’s this sort of middle-of-the-road, type of genre/tone that so many superhero movies have as opposed to having very different genres. I mean, I like very serious superhero movies, I like very comedic superhero movies, I like ones that are a murder mystery but it’s with superheroes. I like to see these different types of stories, as opposed to seeing the same story told over and over again. I don’t know how many times I… I don’t want to go off on anything…" thedirect.com/article/dc-superhero-movies-recent-lazySome thinly veiled jabs at Marvel there.
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Post by politicidal1 on Jul 10, 2023 22:23:48 GMT
Pom Klementieff says she's talked with James Gunn about playing a specific DC character he wants her to play.
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 3, 2023 2:08:27 GMT
The animated movies are not connected to what's planned for the DCU.
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 13, 2023 20:15:25 GMT
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 22, 2023 15:20:06 GMT
Gunn hints that Chris Pratt might be joining his DCU.
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 25, 2023 0:15:31 GMT
On Instagram, Gunn responded to a fan asking him if the DCU will have "a chronology" that fans will be able to access, to which Gunn replied by revealing where things currently stand.
According to Gunn, all that is set at the moment is that the animated series Creature Commandos comes before Superman: Legacy. The DC Studios creative chief explains the reason for that, saying those two are the only projects of the new DCU that have finished scripts due to the Writers Guild of America strike that has been going on for months.
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 31, 2023 22:27:34 GMT
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Post by politicidal1 on Sept 21, 2023 23:39:35 GMT
Warner Bros Discovery has confirmed it plans a major expansion of its Leavesden studio lot, with the UK location set to become the epicenter of DC Studios production.
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Post by politicidal1 on Sept 27, 2023 17:44:35 GMT
A new rumor suggests that Matthew Vaughn is being considered to direct the Authority movie.
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Post by politicidal1 on Sept 28, 2023 0:13:57 GMT
From James Gunn on Instagram:
"...Xolo Maridueña will continue playing Blue Beetle in the DCU, as Viola Davis will Amanda Waller, and John Cena will Peacemaker."
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Post by politicidal1 on Sept 28, 2023 23:39:28 GMT
James Gunn expressed that "nothing is canon until Creature Commandos next year," which he is labeling as an "aperitif" to the DC Universe. The franchise will then take "a deeper dive" with Superman: Legacy, marking the first proper DC Studios movie. At the same time, Gunn felt "it's okay to be confused on what's happening" in the DC Universe due to the fact that "no one has seen anything" from the upcoming continuity.
screenrant.com/james-gunn-clarifies-dc-universe-canon-start/
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Post by politicidal1 on Oct 2, 2023 19:16:28 GMT
The moderators on r/DCEULeaks claim an adaptation of Tom King's Strange Adventures is in the works. Edi Gathegi's Mr. Terrific is supposed to play a key role.
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Post by politicidal1 on Oct 14, 2023 17:09:46 GMT
"...Back in July, a rumor did the rounds that Channing Tatum may be set to star in an upcoming DCU project, and Jeff Sneider speculated that it might be the Green Lantern series. On this week's episode of the Hot Mic podcast, Sneider's co-host John Rocha said he had heard that Warner Bros. "liked the idea" of Tatum playing Hal Jordan."
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