Warner Bros. Reportedly Offered Marvel Studios Boss Kevin Feige The Chance To Take Charge Of DC Studios

@ObserverIO

@TheWalkingCuban - I usually turn my oxygen into cotton. Oxycotton

@Doomsday8888 - Where is that Star Wars project, by the way?

@DCfan84 - I’ll definitely perform cpr on her

@Chewtoy - as opposed to the hunt for an Allison brie type?

@ObserverIO - I'm afraid of the same thing. Gunn's Suicide Squad was fine, but it felt like it was getting dragged down a bit by being mostly a sequel to a lesser movie. If Gunn and Safran have to pull that same kind of dance with the entirety of the DCEU from Man of Steel to Flash, it may be a struggle.

Maybe Gunn's input means we get a truly great Wonder Woman movie to cap off Gadot's trilogy. Maybe Cavill gets a second wind as Superman. This is, in effect, the best case scenario that qualifies as "Restoring the Snyderverse". And I'm always hopeful for good movies under any circumstances.

But that also means there will probably be no true DC reboot, which I believe remains the most viable method of producing a long term shared universe to rival Marvel. Marvel is already showing how much of a strain it is when you try to pivot from your biggest names toward legacy characters and second-stringers. That strain is happening in spite of all of that good will they built up with 25 solid films (and luckily for Marvel, they have a secret weapon in the X-Men to juice the MCU hype when they need to).

Let's say Gunn's tenure entirely rehabilitates the DCEU's reputation. The Snyder gloom is lifted and 90% of audiences are satisfied with the tone and quality of these movies. Finally you have the DC shared universe on a firm footing... and in 5 years, you're going to have an aging Superman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman who are going to require bigger paychecks to keep coming back. We don't even know what the Batman situation looks like. It's virtually impossible to imagine Fisher and Miller back as Flash and Cyborg (if you even consider him a traditional "big name"). Shazam and Black Adam seem to be serviceable standalone characters, but not really the kinds of foundations for a shared-universe. Having not seen the movie, I gather the Justice Society aren't exactly met with rave reception either.

DC has two major cards left to play that I can see to keep this shared universe moving: legacy characters and New Gods stuff. I've already mentioned Marvel's struggle with legacies, but DC is somewhat better suited to it (Young Justice works as an animated series because a lived-in DC Universe full of sidekicks works. But that may not translate to live-action because of the inherent aging problem: namely, it's hard to fill an ensemble cast with sub-20-year-old actors and it's kind of weird to have 30-year-olds called "Supergirl" and "Aqualad").

(Tangent: personally, I've always loved the concept of superhero world's aging like Marvel's comics did in real time for a bit, or DC's "Generation Five" or whatever it was called. I'm totally down to see Robins become Batmen and so on. But that does still mean we've missed out on good "traditional" versions of these characters while they languished in Snydertown. And it's unclear the audience is as enthusiastic as I am of seeing superheroes age.)

It's just... it's tough, I guess. It's a tough remit that I'm worried is just going to be another temporary phase in WB/Discovery's lurching back and forth every few years.

@Spock0Clock - These are all valid concerns. Even in the best case scenario, it's still not what Zaslav wanted when he bought in. And it could've all been achieved with or without Gunn.

I also personally grieve the lack of true Kirby or even Starlin in the MCU even though it is to Gunn's credit (and Feige's and Finn's) that it has been made more commercially accessible.

Eternals seemed to get the same reception from cinematic audiences as it did from comics fans when it first debuted; Excitement and hype then a poor critical and commercial reception, with a small but passionate cult following.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Snyder came back to finish his trilogy using Darkseid as a Thanos-level big bad (but in that reductive DCEU manner) and everything leading towards Crisis on Infinite Earths (which was Hamada's plan).
Essentially the worst of two worlds (Snyder's and Hamada's).

If this happens they'll probably be rebooting in 5-10 years time and this is best case scenario, box office-wise.
Worst case scenario is they don't get that far. Maybe they manage to put out a Justice League 2 that underperforms because nobody cares or saw the first one and then in comes another big corporation that wants to save DC like Discovery and AT&T before them.
And like Discovery, they might even sound like they know how to do that.
And then Justice League 3 will be announced, lol.

I think that being a DC fan all these years has turned me into a pessimist.

@marvel72 - my guess is phase 4 was kind of like killing time and so five and six are going to be better on the big screen anyway, I have lost all hope for the small screen
“Shoulda waited for the 14 pro”
What do I need? Three cameras for?

@BARBER23 - that has to be the endgame of it all. I bet if dceu was successful originally we probably would have gotten it already but i can see it happening within ten years. Maybe the next saga is the almagamation saga? That would probably explode comic con.