The DC Studios co-chief admits that the executive role wasn't quite right for him and looks forward to returning to filmmaking full time.

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[–] 26 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 36 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    Okay, I guess DC movies go back to being bland.

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  • [–] 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    They should have let the man cook. But facists jumped in and did Christian national stuff.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago

    Pity, I really liked last year's Superman flick, his 2021 take on the Suicide Squad and Peacemaker.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 38 minutes ago

    I guess Creature Commandos are also dead and won’t be renewed for S2? Shame.

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  • [–] -3 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] -20 points 20 hours ago (12 children)

    This sounds like massive cope from someone who's produced nothing but flops for DC

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  • [–] 20 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

    Supergirl did badly, that means everything did badly because some people have the attention span of a gerbil.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 hours ago* (6 children)

    What did well? And if things were so profitable, why fire him?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    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

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    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.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    What are you smoking? DC has had 13 flops almost back to back...

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    [–] [S] 29 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    He did indeed try. His Superman was good.

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  • [–] 13 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 21 points 20 hours ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

    Supergirl is a very good comic with beautiful art. I don’t know how they turned that into such an ugly and crappy movie.

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  • [–] 4 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    Someone else directed it, Gunn was probably too tired to fix it?

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  • [–] 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 19 hours ago*

    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.

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    For DC though. Feel kind of bad for them at this point.. (but not really)

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  • [–] 0 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    First I’ve heard of this. Damn. I was eager to see what else he’d do with other DC characters.

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago

    Peacemaker season 1 was legit

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago

    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.'

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago

    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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