New DCU Plans (1 Viewer)

[GrandAdmiral]

Not a popular opinion, but I'm a Melissa Benoist version of Supergirl fan.

That's a negative sir. Everything we loved about Superman and Lois was the complete opposite on Supergirl. It was DOA after its budget was cut after the first season and they move it to the CW. It became unwatchable after that.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

That's a negative sir. Everything we loved about Superman and Lois was the complete opposite on Supergirl. It was DOA after its budget was cut after the first season and they move it to the CW. It became unwatchable after that.

He means the actress as Supergirl, not the show itself.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

The comic run its going to be based off of is quite good.

Still can't believe Tom King wrote that.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

He means the actress as Supergirl, not the show itself.

I meant both. I'm not into a campy Supergirl, which Benoist personified. Sasha Calle was far better.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Still can't believe Tom King wrote that.

Yeah, epitome of a blind squirrel finding an acorn.

 

[DaveXA]

I meant both. I'm not into a campy Supergirl, which Benoist personified. Sasha Calle was far better.

I don't really care for the campy SG either, but I always thought she looks like a Supergirl should. I think she could play a more serious SG, but that's not what the TV show was. I think she was handcuffed by the writing and directing. I say put her in a real SG movie, but probably won't happen.

Sasha is awesome, but I don't really care for her look as SG.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

I don't really care for the campy SG either, but I always thought she looks like a Supergirl should. I think she could play a more serious SG, but that's not what the TV show was. I think she was handcuffed by the writing and directing. I say put her in a real SG movie, but probably won't happen.

Sasha is awesome, but I don't really care for her look as SG.

I didn't like nor dislike Sasha as SG. I thought she was okay, nothing special. I didn't get why people thought she was so great.

 

[DaveXA]

I didn't like nor dislike Sasha as SG. I thought she was okay, nothing special. I didn't get why people thought she was so great.

Yeah, for me, I think a Kara Zor-El look is more Melissa than Sasha, but that's me.

And I think we all agree that the Supergirl TV show wasn't a good a good show for a lot of reasons. I watched all of it only because it was part of the Arrowverse and crossover shows.

That said, I think part of the issue is the writers had CW type agenda and that hurt the show.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

That said, I think part of the issue is the writers had CW type agenda and that hurt the show.

Especially AFTER the budget cuts and the move to the CW. The loss of Calista Flockhart was huge.

 

[DaveXA]

Especially AFTER the budget cuts and the move to the CW. The loss of Calista Flockhart was huge.

Definitely.

 

[Optimus Prime]

James Gunn is bringing the new DCU to life this summer with Superman, but he has recently teased just how much the new franchise is going to spread its wings and embrace the entire history of DC Comics. While many previous iterations of characters such as Batman and Superman have played pretty loose with canon and comic book accuracy, Gunn is set on delivering one of the most comic-accurate interpretations of the many stories of DC’s heroes and villains.

It is now over two years since James Gunn laid out the first “chapter” of the new DCU that he and Peter Safran were developing as the joint CEOs of the newly formed DC Studios. That initial roster of movies, animation, and TV shows included several big hitters, such as Superman, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and Wonder Woman prequel series, Paradise Lost, alongside some unexpected entries like The Authority, Creature Commandos, and the full-on horror movie, Swamp Thing.

Since then, Gunn has been refining and reworking the slate of projects being worked on, with some being pushed back, new ones being added, and others sitting in a state of limbo as scripts are worked on. However, in a recent response to a comment on Threads, Gunn has made it clear that there will be no corner of the DC Comics universe that will not inspire the future of the franchise. Asked which era of DC he would be focused on, Gunn said:

“One of the fun things about creating the DCU is taking elements from all different eras of DC Comics.”

Zack Snyder’s time in the DC franchise was focused primarily on very modern and gritty interpretations of specific sections of DC Comics’ history. In the main, Man of Steel, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Justice League formed a controlled three-act story that did not have many plans for anything beyond that. Of course, there were some unrealized projects, such as Ben Affleck’s solo Batman movie, which could have seen an entirely different path appear to the one that we got.

What Gunn is certainly doing differently is bringing many more unexpected and obscure characters into the franchise compared to Snyder’s relatively safe gathering of DC’s biggest hitters. From a Robin movie to The Authority, along with a dozen lesser known appearances within Creature Commandos and Superman’s character lists, the world Gunn is crafting is about world building to a point that any character, from any period of DC Comics could make an appearance and be both familiar to long-term fans, and a new favorite to a new audience..............

James Gunn Reveals Exactly What DC Comics Era the DCU Is Inspired By

This is all-encompassing compared to Zack Snyder's vision.

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