The comedian ebook style continues to be a wildly in style one, with quite a few shared universes competing for field workplace supremacy. DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has been crafting a brand new DCU, with the primary slate of initiatives titled Gods and Monsters. Whereas Superman being profitable on the field workplace, Gunn just lately defined why he scrapped a beforehand greenlighted venture.
The DCU (which is streaming with a Max subscription) started with Creature Commandos and debuted on the massive display screen with Superman. Though we got a roadmap of TV and film initiatives, Gunn just lately spoke to Rolling Stone and made it clear that he is taking care with every new launch. That features dropping a mysterious title completely, as he shared:
Yeah. We simply killed a venture. All people wished to make the film. It was greenlit, able to go. The screenplay wasn’t prepared. And I couldn’t do a film the place the screenplay’s not good. And we’ve been actually fortunate up to now, as a result of Supergirl’s script was so fucking good off the bat. After which Lanterns got here in, and the script was so fucking good. Clayface, similar factor. So fucking good. So we now have these scripts that we’ve been actually fortunate with or clever in our decisions or regardless of the mixture is.
Give us names, Mr. Gunn! Whereas the acclaimed filmmaker is preserving his playing cards near the chest, I am inquisitive about what current DC script merely did not make the minimize. Gods and Monsters’ schedule named a ton of TV and film titles, most of which we’ve not gotten replace on. As such, it feels prefer it could possibly be about practically any of them.
Relatively than pushing by way of initiatives that are not prepared, it appears the Guardians of the Galaxy director is not afraid to axe unhealthy scripts. This could be an encouraging signal for followers, particularly those that had been dissatisfied with the peaks and valleys of DC’s earlier shared universe.
Whereas a ton of upcoming DC films had been introduced, they are not all assured to really hit theaters. Even Gunn just lately scrapped one, he appears hyped about what’s coming subsequent, together with the Supergirl film and Clayface. I imply, he dropped a number of F-bombs in response to these title’s scripts. That should have made the discrepancy between these and no matter clunker he acquired (and dropped) much more apparent.
On prime of sustaining a top quality of script, it looks as if James Gunn can also be targeted on making the DCU a extra interconnected place than its predecessor. We have already seen quite a few crossovers; Karl City voiced Rick Flag Sr. in Creature Commandos earlier than enjoying him in live-action for Superman. That film additionally featured the debuts of Nathan Fillion’s Man Gardner and Isabela Merced’s Hawkgirl earlier than they reprise their roles in Peacemaker Season 2.
Superman is in theaters now as a part of the 2025 film launch listing, and Peacemaker‘s second season will debut on HBO Max on August twenty first. We’ll simply have to attend and see if Gunn reveals which DC venture just lately acquired the axe.