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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8862198" data-attributes="member: 6988941">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.</blockquote>