Up, up, and away: All the new DC projects announced by James Gunn
The new stewards of DC Studios have an extensive plan for films and TV series, from Superman and Supergirl to Swamp Thing and Booster Gold
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When Warner Bros. tapped James Gunn and Peter Safran to run DC Studios, we expected they’d draw a new roadmap for the turbulent comics-to-film universe. Now that they’ve revealed plans for their upcoming projects, we have our first sense of what the map looks like, at least for the near future. This first chapter, which Gunn and Safran are calling “Gods and Monsters,” will include 10 new film and TV projects. Gunn and Safran have said they intend to focus on screenwriting and allowing other creators to put their stamp on familiar characters as well as more obscure ones from the comics.
These titles will exist in their own corner of the DC universe, distinct from upcoming releases that predate Gunn and Safran’s tenure. Still to come this year are Shazam! Fury Of The Gods on March 17, The Flash on June 16, Blue Beetle on Aug. 18, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom on Dec. 25. Once those are cleared from the slate, the pair expect to launch two films and two series per year from 2024 on. The only DC projects that have broad release dates so far are Superman: Legacy and The Batman: Part II, both due in 2025. Read on for a complete list of all the newly announced titles.
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Gunn appears to be implying that Bruce Wayne is a bitch. Which I have no problem with.
Or that Talia al-Ghul is.
More like Bitchman, amirite?
“Don’t you know who I am? I’m the bitch Batman!”
Honestly while I like James Gunn suicide squad Waller was worse in his version than the first movie. Like she just lets her own employees knock her out, without consequences, that would never happen. The first movie got it right that she would kill her own employees to keep secrets. I am not excited for Waller if it’s James Gunn doing it
The consequences were saved for Peacemaker.
Again that where she differs from the first movie. Waller from the first movie would just kill them. This waller makes them babysit Peacemaker. Just a big difference.
When I read the newswire, my immediate thought was, “You know, this content would be better as a slideshow, ideally one as close as possible to the one on Gizmodo.”
So, no go on the “Captain Carrott and His Amazing Zoo Crew”?
#ReleaseTheZooyderCut
The MCU didn’t have the Guardians of the Galaxy during their first five years, either.
Let it go!
I’m not sure why you chose the specific images for these films and not the images that were provided by DC, especially since the image you provided for The Authority is actually from Superman and the Authority, the more recent incarnation that has an almost completely different set of characters from the original Authority.
Kay.
Seems like a lot of “Whatever Gunn finds interesting.” Not sure this is much better than their prior “Whatever Nolan finds interesting” strategy.
No cinematic universe should be beholden to one person’s interests. Hopefully these still feel varied. Even in the MCU, Kevin Feige steers the ship, but it’s not specific to some singular vision he has (and it probably helps that he’s not a filmmaker).
Much as I dislike some of the MCU/Disney corpo shit I do appreciate that Feige is an exec, not a creative. Creatives have too much artistic ego to be “objective”.
If my Nolan you mean Snyder…
Nolan was the producer on the Snyder films.
He was but had little to no creative input after Man of Steel.
And thus far we have no films produced by Gunn under the new DC directive. There’s no actual telling where this is headed yet.The DC strategy began with “We like the success of Nolan’s Batman so let’s put him in charge of our movies”, resulting in grimdark DC. Snyder took Nolan’s Batman vibes. They saw the success of the lighter toned MCU, hired Gunn for the successful Suicide Squad sequel, and have now pulled the same questionable move of putting a successful auteur of ONE DC narrative in charge of the direction of their entire “universe”.
Nolan getting a producer credit on a couple movies in no way implies that the content of those films was “whatever Nolan finds interesting” in fact the opposite was the case. There was less than zero evidence of Nolan’s creative interests in any of those movies. The first three were just Zack Snyder movies, clearly. People get producer credits all the time for zero input, as a contractual thing.
“Chris, it’s not that we don’t like your new character, Blaring Horn Section Man, it’s just that we want to develop our existing IP first.”
The Authority?? WildC.A.T.s was right there!
“Like the Authority, but terrible!”
Jim Lee is a good artist and I collected WildC.A.T.s comics as a child, but as an adult looking at that title with the Cover Action Teams acronym… dude, what the fuck was he thinking
So does this mean no Peacemaker2 and Vigilante? The tears are willing up.
I think we’re still getting more Peacemaker. As I recall he was set to do another season after Guardians Vol.3 wrapped, and I can’t imagine he’ll abandon it even with his new position at Warner Bros.
‘The show will feature other characters from Peacemaker as well, serving as a continuation of that series in lieu of a second season.’
My job here is done.
I love Gunns stuff , but Lanterns is back to the Bland as dry toast Jordan/Stewart* Lanterns instead of the interesting Scott/Gardner/Cruz mix we were getting , so its a leap back .( the John ‘Diggle’ Stewart version would have been nice , but otherwise JS is just literally just ..the worst)
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didn’t realize they confirmed that battinson/reeves were ONLY going to get one more swing at it and this new brave and the bold batman would be a full-on replacement going forwards.that sucks.
They did not say that. They said that the Reeves movies will be a self-contained Elseworlds trilogy called The Batman Crime Saga. So, 3 “The Batman” films total. The Brave and the Bold is a separate movie set within the DCU continuity.
The Authority could be interesting, although I am not sure how you make that movie without it being a hard R. It wouldn’t be the same without seeing someone get punched literally in the brain. On the plus side Apollo and Midnighter showing up in a big budget super hero movie and being a married couple (that are basically Superman and Batman) would probably make people like Tucker Carlson lose their shit, which would be hilarious.
I dunno, do we really need another grim n’ gritty superhero take? We already one in DC continuity with the Synderverse Superman / JL movies and it was awful. Plus there’s The Boys for everyone who somehow missed this theme in every other comic book published since Miracleman and The Dark Knight Returns.I did like the standalone Authority books well enough, though I never followed them into DC continuity, but I’m not sure trolling Tucker Carlson is the best reason to make a movie.
“Dark” doesn’t necessarily mean “pointlessly grim and fucking stupid.”The Authority and Swamp Thing are the only decent properties on this list.
I want more R Patts as Batman and more Peacemaker
We can assume that Donald Faison will not be reprising his Booster Gold performance from LoT?
SAVE DOOM PATROL OR FUCK OFF