DC’s new movie and TV slate, explained by James Gunn

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The Zack Snyder epoch volition ‘lead into’ Gunn and Safran’s caller DCU slate

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Writer-director James Gunn, who serves arsenic DC Studios co-chairman and CEO with Peter Safran, mentioned the duo’s program for a marque caller bankruptcy of the DC Universe connected Tuesday — a program that volition span 8 to 10 years crossed 10 archetypal tasks, and volition effort to unify DC’s comedian homes passim film, tv, gaming, and animation. The caller DCU slate includes a cinematic reboot of the Superman franchise and a logo-new Batman film that’s not a sequel to 2022’s The Batman.

But Gunn and Safran’s caller program doesn’t nullify the worlds of the 4 nonetheless-to-be-released DC Studios movies (Shazam! Fury of the Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) nor volition it seemingly modulate plans for sequels to Matt Reeves’ The Batman and Todd Phillips’ Joker. Gunn explains however the bold plans are each going to paintings successful the video above, and offers other shadiness connected recently discovered tasks starring Supergirl, Green Lantern(s), and Booster Gold.

In his announcement video, Gunn says the purpose astatine Warner Bros. Discovery is to “make definite the DCU is hooked up successful film, tv, gaming, and animation” and that “characters are consistent, performed done the identical actors, and it truly works successful a azygous story.” Anything that doesn’t enactment wrong that DCU continuity, which includes The Batman – Part II and Joker: Folie à Deux, tin person its idiosyncratic logo: DC Elseworlds. (That statement is acquainted to galore DC enthusiasts, arsenic it’s wherever creators archer speech beingness “What if...?” tales extracurricular of the comics’ continuity.)

Gunn besides explains that the last DC movie slate, which attracts connected characters borne of the Zack Snyder-led exertion astatine DC, volition pb instantly into Gunn and Safran’s caller projects. “Shazam has perpetually been disconnected benignant of successful his precise ain portion of the DCU truthful helium connects thoroughly,” Gunn says. “That moves without hold into The Flash, a superb movie that […] resets the implicit DC universe, and past [...] into Blue Beetle, astir a kid who’s a fabulous portion of the DCU, and past into Aquaman 2.”

The archetypal of Gunn’s caller DCU tasks is Creature Commandos, a radical of gigantic misfits who volition execute nether Amanda Waller (played via Viola Davis successful The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker). We’ll spot Davis instrumentality arsenic Waller close here, arsenic Gunn explains, “We’re gonna person characters travel into animation, retired of animation, usually having the identical histrion play their dependable arsenic who performs them successful stay-movement.” That could beryllium a premier speech for the DCU, wherein aggregate actors represent heroes similar Batman, The Flash, and Superman passim media codecs.

Gunn is going connected to supply an mentation for immoderate of his different projects, which includes Lanterns, likened to True Detective but with “Green Lanterns who're abstraction cops overseeing precinct Earth;” The Authority “a passionateness undertaking” for Gunn arsenic a mode to invited the superhero radical to the DCU for the superior time; and Booster Gold, a Very Gunn quality successful that he’s “a loser from the future” who volition go a superhero successful the modern-day truthful that humans volition emotion him — “essentially the superhero communicative of imposter syndrome,” Gunn says.

Other projects, which see caller films Superman: Legacy, The Brave and the Bold, and Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, get a spot greater coloration arsenic well, owed to the information Gunn namechecks the comic publication writers and postulation that those films volition gully from, which includes Grant Morrison’s and Tom King’s runs connected Brave and the Bold and Supergirl. (Interestingly, Gunn’s video breakdown suggests paintings from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s All-Star Superman whilst discussing the Superman movie helium plans to proviso successful 2025.)