lol this is gonna be great. right as ai pops, the ellisons are gonna be rolling out shit-tons of christofascist slop and it'll tank their production companies. do it lol

Truthfully we don't know. I expect they'll stay the course. I think Gunn/Safran have a story they want to tell and Man of Tomorrow hopefully isn't the end of it, so they'll tell at least one more to finish that trilogy. Reading Gunn's statement it doesn't sound like he's moving on, just stepping back.

I think we see new projects get launched. Batman is an obvious one, especially because it's been "secretly" in the world for a while. Hopefully Latcham brings in some excellent creatives and can guide the overall universe in a loosely Gunn direction.

They need to do an anti-woke one for the Ellisons where he protects colonial settlers, federal agents and data centres from evil protestors with molotov cocktails.

they are making another one? they already made one with cavil.

Supergirl's writing was a train wreck. So many baffling things I have to assume studio meddling. The movie otherwise was fine. Actress, fine. Direction, production, special effects, fine.

This is a distressingly common trend in big budget movies in the last ~10 years or so. Casting directors seem to be doing great; it's been decades since we saw someone straight-up poorly cast, like Clooney as Batman or Julian McMahon as Doctor Doom.

Special effects are a somewhat mixed bag, but that's more an issue of SFX houses not being given the time and opportunity to do the best work that they can. When they're given time and used properly, it's entirely appropriate to say that special effects and CGI are better than ever before.

But writing for some unfathomable reason seems to have taken a turn specifically for the worse. I've heard that writers are being given less time to adjust scripts during filming, and that certainly fits with a pattern I've observed where there seem to be a lot of movies where the script feels like a first or second but by no means a final draft, as if one more final tweak could have taken something from passable to excellent.

Wherever the exact cause, "I liked everything about this movie except for all the things that happened" is a real fucking bummer of an experience, because you can so easily see how the movie could have been great, but just... wasn't.

Mamoa as lobo though...... No notes

From the moment he was announced as Aquaman I thought “nah, that braddah is Lobo.” Turns out it’s Momoa’s favorite comic book character and man he’s so perfect. I NEED to see him interact with Jon Stewart.

The comic it was based upon had the same issues.

I don't think this is just a result of Supergirl. I think that film is (more or less) exactly what the director (Craig Gillespie) wanted. It just think something went wrong, Gunn tried to help, but it was too little too late. The film gets a lot right, but it misses in some big moments (as you've pointed out), and ultimately a just fine but not great film.

I think this is a result of pacing and releases. The merger was expensive and Skydance needs money. Putting out one blockbuster a year, and in the case of Supergirl a blockbuster that severely underperformed, isn't going to work for the studio.

The question is, how much rushed crap are we going to get going forward? Hopefully little to none, but I suspect we'll get some rough films. (But maybe some great ones?)

It was a fantastic run of 3 movies. I was very hopeful lmao.

Lanterns was great

Gunn wasn't running everything. Gunn and Safran were co-CEOs. It was two people running everything.

Skydance will probably replace them with a single CEO.

Gunn seemed to give A LOT of freedom to other creators. It also makes sense to have someone in a shared universe be aware of what's going on, and set rough outlines/rules.

For example Lanterns had to deal with Guy Gardiner existing, and since Gunn was going to use Jon Stewart he needed to be Lantern ready. But otherwise it is clear that Lanterns had a lot of freedom.

Or look at the upcoming "The People v. Gorilla Grodd". Gunn said that Jimmy Olsen should be out solving crimes (or something with Mister Terrific). Maybe he had more than that, maybe it needed to introduce certain characters, but it seemed like he had a rough idea, or maybe people with the right idea came to him and they talked about how it could fit into the larger world.

Ultimately you need some "one" that can say yes or no, but they can be very receptive to ideas.