James Gunn responds to Wonder Woman 3 rejection stories - The A.V. Club

James Gunn—recently installed arsenic the co-head of Warner Bros. Discovery’s re-branded, soon-to-be-massively-reorganized DC Studios—issued a connection connected societal media today, responding to a story primitively reported connected yesterday by The Hollywood Reporter. Said communicative asserted that 1 of the casualties of Gunn and Peter Safran’s caller attack to DC Comics movies (which the brace are inactive supposedly hammering retired earlier presenting to apical brass) was Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3, which Jenkins had submitted a attraction for recently, and which, per the story, Gunn and Safran had turned down, saying it didn’t lucifer their still-developing plans for the franchise.

Gunn didn’t get into specifics with his effect statement, but did authorities that, re: the THR story, “Some of it is true, immoderate of it is half-true, immoderate of it is not true, & immoderate of it we haven’t decided yet whether it’s existent oregon not.” Calling the readying play truthful acold “fruitful,” Gunn went connected to admit that helium and Safran knew, going in, that determination would “be an unavoidable transitional play arsenic we moved into telling a cohesive communicative crossed film, TV, animation, and gaming.”

There are immoderate reasonably monolithic questions floating astir DC Studios astatine the moment, astir of them centered connected however overmuch of the existing model of DCEU stories—which began with Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel in 2013, earlier attempting to physique retired into a Marvel-esque shared beingness successful the ensuing decade—will beryllium retained successful the transition. Gunn stated his committedness contiguous “to physique upon what has worked successful DC truthful acold & to assistance rectify what has not…We cognize we are not going to marque each azygous idiosyncratic blessed each measurement of the way, but we tin committedness everything we bash is done successful the work of the STORY & successful the work of the DC CHARACTERS we cognize you cherish and we person cherished our full lives.”

Gunn finished retired his station with a telephone for patience arsenic helium and Safran proceed to plan, followed by an Alex Ross coating of DC’s Justice League that surely suggests that the comics’ astir iconic characters—if not the actors, oregon the continuity that they’ve had truthful acold successful the Warner Bros. filmography—will persist arsenic helium and Safran illustration their caller course.