We’re still pretty stunned and dismayed after Monday’s shocking news. After only four years, James Gunn and Peter Safran are “stepping down” as heads of DC Studios. As a reminder, as of last month, the pair’s jobs were safe. In the wake of that announcement, we get a much clearer picture that this wasn’t their idea. Several reports have the move from Skydance Co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz coming down to everything from conflict over the reporting hierarchy to Superman not having a “cultural impact.” (Sidebar: hogwash.) But whatever the case, the fact of the matter is Gunn’s vision for DC, and presumably the DCU in totality, will not continue after next year’s Man of Tomorrow.
But he did have a vision. Gunn has described Man of Tomorrow as his best experience ever making a movie. Now, we have even more evidence the “stepping down” wasn’t his idea, given he was in the planning stages of a third Superman movie. This one would have led to a proper Justice League team-up.
In a bombshell report from The Hollywood Reporter, which details insider comments on the Gunn and Safran departure, we learned how much further the plans had gone. “[S]ources say he was in the midst of writing a third installment as part of plan to make a trilogy and release a Superman movie every two years, maybe even morphing the franchise into a Justice League team-up.” That means Batman, Wonder Woman, maybe even Martian Manhunter. Barely two years away.
We know just from the cast list that Man of Tomorrow will have loads of other DC heroes in it. In addition to all the Justice Gangers we saw in Superman, Milly Alcock’s Supergirl will have a more prominent role. Hot off of Lanterns, Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart will also feature.
But what if the third entry in the Superman trilogy was going to properly bring all these heroes together? What if they would cohere into the actual-for-real Justice League? What if Superman is the central figure in a series of team-ups as a stealth way to deliver the DC universe’s flagship team? It’s almost like Gunn and Safran had…a plan!
As fans of DC and movies, we’re well acquainted disappointment. Just as things get going, corporate restructuring kicks us again. But, maybe because it’s the freshest, this one hurts the most. All we can do, I suppose, is go see Man of Tomorrow next July. And then just imagine a universe where that story continues for a decade.
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This articles is written by : Nermeen Nabil Khear Abdelmalak
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