Yesterday evening brought some shocking news on the DC movies front, just four months after Batgirl was surprisingly scrapped. Along with Wonder Woman 3 reportedly being shelved in “its current incarnation,” it was also said that DC is mulling shuttering the DCEU continuity in favor of starting a new shared universe, among numerous other claims. Now James Gunn, the new co-chairman and co-CEO of DC Studios, has responded to this cancellation news and the other reported shakeups.
After making The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker (both of which can be watched with an HBO Max subscription), James Gunn is now co-running the newly-created DC Studios with producer Peter Safran, meaning that with a few exceptions, these two are steering the ship on DC Comics’ film, television and animation projects. So if anyone’s qualified to comment on the state of the upcoming DC movies slate, it’s Gunn. Here’s what the filmmaker had to say on Twitter regarding yesterday’s news:
So. As for the story yesterday in the Hollywood Reporter, some of it is true, some of it is half-true, some of it is not true, & some of it we haven’t decided yet whether it’s true or not. Although this first month at DC has been fruitful, building the next ten years of story takes time & we’re still just beginning. Peter & I chose to helm DC Studios knowing we were coming into a fractious environment, both in the stories being told & in the audience itself & there would be an unavoidable transitional period as we moved into telling a cohesive story across film, TV, animation, and gaming. But, in the end, the drawbacks of that transitional period were dwarfed by the creative possibilities & the opportunity to build upon what has worked in DC so far & to help rectify what has not. We know we are not going to make every single person happy every step of the way, but we can promise everything we do is done in the service of the STORY & in the service of the DC CHARACTERS we know you cherish and we have cherished our whole lives. As for more answers about the future of the DCU, I will sadly have to ask you to wait. We are giving these characters & the stories the time & attention they deserve & we ourselves still have a lot more questions to ask & answer.
More to come...
