I was pretty damn surprised to hear that he took the job in the first place. Hard to justify moving from Troma to heading the flagship of a large studio.
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Okay, I guess DC movies go back to being bland.
Exactly. I kind of figured he'd give DC a big ol' lift while Marvel hit the same tired well.
Happily, he's still doing Superman 2. And with a little luck, another season of Creature Commandos.
Super hero genera have been bland for over a decade now. Its the big tent genera, always trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
instead of exciting and crap?
Back to first principles, DC heros have always been lame.
They should have let the man cook. But facists jumped in and did Christian national stuff.
Pity, I really liked last year's Superman flick, his 2021 take on the Suicide Squad and Peacemaker.
Does this mean no more Peacemaker? I really liked that show...
Lanterns... Lanterns S1 I have some issues with but could have seen it getting better in subsequent seasons.
Shame. I think he did a great job. I've watched more DC stuff in the past three years than probably the rest of my life combined.
I guess Creature Commandos are also dead and won’t be renewed for S2? Shame.
Oh, that must have been so hard for him. I’m sure he’ll cry himself to sleep in his mansion and bed of money.
This sounds like massive cope from someone who's produced nothing but flops for DC
bro what are you smoking?
Supergirl did badly, that means everything did badly because some people have the attention span of a gerbil.
What did well? And if things were so profitable, why fire him?
Because of the sky dance merger. Trumps billionaire friend hates James Gunn and Peter Safran because of them using white nationalist antagonists.
If you haven't noticed, the maga losers hate getting made fun of or having their beliefs shown for what they are.
The new season of Reacher was supposed to be him fighting a white supremist group and it got squashed. Apple TV had a Jessica Chastain movie about the rising threat of white nationalism and they were both cancelled when white christian nationalists couped the government.
Prepare for white maga superman to be coming
Lanterns and peacemaker
And the new Superman, while Clayface is apparently doing well.
Turns out the guy just didn't even know Gunn's universe was different from the ones coming out literally a decade ago.
I was talking about movie's since it's almost impossible to find revenue numbers for TV shows (at least without paying). However, even if they were a success, that still doesn't look good for the DCEU against all is movie flops.
What are you smoking? DC has had 13 flops almost back to back...
He did indeed try. His Superman was good.
And so another major DC universe reboot gets put in the pile with the rest. Maybe we can try another Batman trilogy and see if that's a good start?
Superman was good, also Lanterns, Peacemaker, and Creature Commandos. I did bail about a third of the way into Supergirl, which just felt like a rejected Guardians of the Galaxy script.
There are some other animated shows worth a look. The adventures with Superman was really fun and I loved the Suicide Squad Iseki. That was so absurd in the perfect way.
Supergirl is a very good comic with beautiful art. I don’t know how they turned that into such an ugly and crappy movie.
Someone else directed it, Gunn was probably too tired to fix it?
Gunn read the script. He saw how they mangled the story from the start and did nothing. The comic series the movie is based on is in my personal top 5.
I didn't even care that there was a poorly-behaved dog in danger. You'll have to take my word for it, but that is an extremely strong indictment of a movie's pacing and writing.
I read that there was a lot of head butting between the director and Gunn.
Lanterns was mid.
For DC though. Feel kind of bad for them at this point.. (but not really)
I agree. For DC standards it was good. Felt like the Moonknight case where it was so hyped for no reason. Barely any action or plot. Wish they make these drama type series with characters more suited.
First I’ve heard of this. Damn. I was eager to see what else he’d do with other DC characters.
With Gunn, there was a chance DC would do the ultimate reboot: 'Batman: The Musical.'
With the new DC head, will settle for: 'Batman and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.'
What an incredible run!
The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, Superman, Supergirl, Lanterns (though idk how involved he was with that one), Clayface, Man of Tomorrow (soon), and another in-progress project that may or may not happen.
I’m so glad he’s done with his non-creative responsibilities

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