NEWS; Gunning down the Snyderverse UPDATE Cavill gets the Kryptonite handshake!

[AnotherGuy]

Well Angry Joe had a nice rant on this and the Cavill situation...
In July 2021 James Gunn said (paraphrasing) he doesn't think Superman and JL is a fun playground because everyone has an idea on it...
but now this dude has an idea for Supes and he has been writing it and it is ready to go??!! So he is throwing out HC for an idea he had within the last year.

 

[John R Davis]

And on the BBC so must be true
Nice bump for GW shareholders too.

Warhammer to be made into film and TV show, starring Superman actor Henry Cavill

The ex-Superman star and fan of the miniature wargame has called the move a "dream come true".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Gradine]

Now that he's free from all major entanglements Henry Cavill can return to chasing his true dream, finding somebody to talk about his Warhammer collection with.

Called it

 

[Henadic Theologian]

This had to happen, outside of a few movies the DCEU was complete garbage, I mean why Henry, Pierce, and the Rock can't save a fun movie, then nothing can save the DCEU, I think Zaslav realized that, pull the trigger killing it, but like jerk left James Gunn holding the bag for it.

I also think within the 5 years Marvel will do something similar when they realize none of their movies are going to make a billion dollars anymore and that all the most popular characters are either dead or ruined.

I've been saying we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Superhero genre's dominance.

D&D movies and Warhammer and such are the future.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Honestly, I feel like there should be TWO DC universe of movie: one for Batman and the other 'Street Detective' types of characters (Green Arrow, The Question, Huntress, Black Canary, etc) and one for the Gods (Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Flash, Shazam, etc). The first one can be more grounded and gritty, with a relatively lower budget where you can give more freedom to Directors, and the other more spectacular and high budget.

They might have that between the Gunnverse and the Jokerverse.

 

[Undrave]

D&D movies and Warhammer and such are the future.

If Sonic (and seemingly Mario despite the lacklustre casting of the main character) can teach the right lessons, we MIGHT just see more good video game movies too...

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I don't particularly like superhero movies and have not watched the majority of the Snyderverse era DC movies, so I guess I don't have a dog in this fight. James Gunn has consistently made superhero movies that I (and I think many other superhero movie ambivalent people) like, so on the level of "guy who can broaden appeal beyond the superhero movie junkies" he makes a lot of sense to put in charge.

That said, he is also a hands-on, auteur filmmaker type who seems to relish writing his own screenplays, curating the soundtrack of his films, etc. He wrote every episode of Peacemaker. He wrote and directed the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special himself, which is the sort of thing traditionally handed off to someone lower profile. Which is all to say that he seems like someone who, as a "cinematic universe executive" will either find himself too removed from too much of the creative particulars to find satisfaction, or who will work himself to exhaustion trying to stay hands on.

My prediction is that James Gunn era DC will produce several movies I like, but won't last very long.

 

[trappedslider]

This had to happen, outside of a few movies the DCEU was complete garbage, I mean why Henry, Pierce, and the Rock can't save a fun movie, then nothing can save the DCEU, I think Zaslav realized that, pull the trigger killing it, but like jerk left James Gunn holding the bag for it.

I also think within the 5 years Marvel will do something similar when they realize none of their movies are going to make a billion dollars anymore and that all the most popular characters are either dead or ruined.

I've been saying we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Superhero genre's dominance.

D&D movies and Warhammer and such are the future.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

In related news, turns out The Rock did not unfollow Black Adam and WB Discovery on Instagram, he never followed them to begin with.

 

[Aeson]

Now that he's free from all major entanglements Henry Cavill can return to chasing his true dream, finding somebody to talk about his Warhammer collection with.

Something tells me the girl won't get bored and walk away like she would if I told her about my Warhammer collection.