Even the most ardent Marvel fans can agree that having to watch so much content feels like a chore, and James Gunn hopes to avoid that with the new DCU.
After several difficult years at DC with a series of films that never materialized into a coherent connected universe, next week we will see the arrival of Creature Commandos, the first project to be launched under Gunn’s DC Studios co-leadership, and also the inaugural project of the new DCU. Of course, there are still plenty of lingering questions from the old DCU, and in a recent interview with Collider ahead of the Creature Commandos premiere, Gunn clarified a few things about what is canon, as well as how he feels about having to watch an entire cinematic universe. has to offer.
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When asked if The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker”>Peacemaker will be canon in the new DCU, given that Peacemaker season 2 will be, Gunn explained: “Peacemaker is pretty easy. Peacemaker season 1 is basically canon outside of the Justice League’s appearance at the end, which you’ll see something about in Peacemaker season 2. Suicide Squad is likely to be a little more flexible.
“We know that Rick Flag Sr. is angry because his son was killed by Peacemaker, so we know that situation happened in the past, we have something to refer to to think about how that could have happened, but that exists as canon because it was mentioned in Creature Commandos, not necessarily because it existed in Suicide Squad.”
Gunn also spoke about what he likes about DC, telling Collider: “A lot of what DC is, and the fun for me, really, is in the world building, not just the story building. I don’t think in the DCU. Like, “Oh, this is a story that we tell in various movies and TV shows about a big bad.” I don’t want to have to do, as an audience member, the task of having to watch every single thing. well a connected universe that exists within a place, which is the DCU, which will have differences depending on who. The artists, the directors and the production designers are the ones who make the shows.
Obviously, we all know that Gunn directed all three Guardians of the Galaxy movies for Marvel, and the third is directly influenced by the events of Avengers: Endgame, so this feels like a little dig at Marvel (and a fair one, at that). . There are too many things you have to see to really understand what’s going on).
DC Studios under Gunn’s leadership will certainly have a wide range of projects, and the DCU will obviously feature movies about Superman, Batman, Supergirl, even the Teen Titans, as well as shows like Creature Commandos, Peacemaker, Lanterns, and Booster Gold. There’s also the Elseworlds stuff, like The Batman 2 and that wild-sounding CGI/stop-motion/live-action Robins movie. At least you can’t say that Gunn isn’t interested in variety.
