{"id":400386,"date":"2025-09-05T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400386\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:16:13","slug":"man-of-tomorrow-peacemaker-batman-the-dcu-is-starting-off-strangely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400386\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Of Tomorrow, Peacemaker, Batman, The DCU Is Starting Off Strangely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757088973_819_960x0.png\" alt=\"peacemaker2\" data-height=\"413\" data-width=\"825\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While James Gunn is <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@jamesgunn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@jamesgunn\" aria-label=\"being extremely open\">being extremely open<\/a> about his plans for the DCU, those plans seem\u2026a bit all over the place and across a range of projects that keep starting and stopping and focusing on surprising characters across a number of PG-13 and R-rated projects. It\u2019s a bit hard to keep track of, and this entire thing probably needs a breakdown based on what we\u2019ve seen and what Gunn keeps telling us. So, the DCU:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The DCU did not start off with Superman, but Creature Commandos, an R-rated animated series about a monster-like Suicide Squad that featured Rick Flagg Sr. Gunn has said that all DCU projects, unless otherwise specified, are canon to the DCU, and this one is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The same Rick Flagg jumped over to the blockbuster start of the DCU, Superman, a well-liked introduction to the new hero, albeit a signifier of the flagging superhero box office, crossing $600 million when that\u2019s far less than many much worse DCEU projects made.<\/li>\n<li>Superman introduced Supergirl, which will be next year\u2019s big movie project. Then after that, Man of Tomorrow, a quasi-Superman sequel that was never originally stated to exist when Gunn laid out the initial DCU projects, but now he says he\u2019s already finished the script just a few months after Superman wrapped.<\/li>\n<li>Gunn has implied that one project he originally was pushing, The Authority, is mostly dead now. Similarly, a Teen Titans movie that Supergirl\u2019s Ana Nogueira was writing has been put on hold in favor of a newly announced Wonder Woman movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The immediate DCU follow-up to Superman is the second season of Gunn\u2019s Peacemaker show on HBO, an extremely mature-rated production that featured an actual orgy in its first episode, so getting Superman viewers over to that could prove\u2026problematic, despite crossover characters. Gunn flat-out retconned Peacemaker to always be a part of the DCU, and has been hyping the last few episodes as massively important for the DCU and a must-watch. Again, going from Superman to this is\u2026jarring for many.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s not clear just how much of Gunn\u2019s Suicide Squad movie he\u2019s keeping canon, saying things like it\u2019s an \u201cimperfect\u201d recollection of events. Things like Peacemaker\u2019s involvement and his killing of Rick Flagg Jr. have stayed. He\u2019s said he wants to bring Bloodsport back. We have no real idea if Margot Robbie\u2019s Harley Quinn may return.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gunn has simply plucked Blue Beetle out of the DCEU and has made him canon in the DCU. He\u2019s hinted he may show up in Peacemaker.<\/li>\n<li>The True Detective-ish Lanterns is heading to HBO in a bit, featuring the rather ridiculous Guy Gardner briefly in what will be a more serious tale.<\/li>\n<li>The Batman situation is that it seems pretty clear that Robert Pattinson\u2019s The Batman will not join the DCU as its Batman, even if Gunn previously said \u201cnever say never\u201d about that idea. More recently he\u2019s said that the actual DCU announced Batman project, The Brave and the Bold, is coming along, though he has not mentioned The Flash director Andy Muschietti and all for a long while, causing many to wonder if he\u2019s still attached. Additionally, we have a currently-filming Clayface movie that was allegedly originally part of The Batman universe before it was moved over. And this is supposed to be the same Clayface that was played for laughs in Creature Commandos, given its canon status.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is all this\u2026bad? Honestly it\u2019s hard to say. The only things actually released right now are Creature Commandos, Superman and a season and a half of Peacemaker. And I guess Blue Beetle. It is not wise to underestimate James Gunn when it comes to superhero projects, as he has never made a bad one, but questions remain about how things will go when he\u2019s not actually writing and directing these projects, and if audiences will be able to follow along through charming Superman movies and bloody, sexy TV shows like Peacemaker and Creature Commandos, if they\u2019re all connected. It\u2019s going to be an interesting experiment, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow me <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\" aria-label=\"on Twitter\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\">on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ?sub_confirmation=1\" aria-label=\"YouTube\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ?sub_confirmation=1\">YouTube<\/strong><\/a><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ\" aria-label=\",\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ\">,<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paul.tassi\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paul.tassi\/?hl=en\" aria-label=\"Instagram\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paul.tassi\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pick up my sci-fi novels the <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08G1MRFTM?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_tkin&amp;binding=kindle_edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08G1MRFTM?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_tkin&amp;binding=kindle_edition\" aria-label=\"Herokiller series\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08G1MRFTM?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_tkin&amp;binding=kindle_edition\">Herokiller series<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08KYDGG73?binding=paperback&amp;ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08KYDGG73?binding=paperback&amp;ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk\" aria-label=\"The Earthborn Trilogy\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08KYDGG73?binding=paperback&amp;ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk\">The Earthborn Trilogy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While James Gunn is being extremely open about his plans for the DCU, those plans seem\u2026a bit all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[92927,77,138173,3943,127873,32018,4169,81191,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-dcu","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-man-of-tomorrow","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-peacemaker","13":"tag-supergirl","14":"tag-superman","15":"tag-the-batman","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115152590424179139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}