On the surface, the early signals sound positive for the current regime. But look closer, and the picture is more complicated than the headline quotes suggest.<\/p>\n
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What Was Said<\/p>\n Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> at the Brooklyn premiere of Supergirl, executive producer Lars P. Winther confirmed that Ellison has already traveled to Atlanta, where Man of Tomorrow is currently filming.<\/p>\n \u201cHe came to Trilith [Studios] already. That\u2019s where we shoot all our movies that James directs,\u201d Winther said. \u201cHe came to Atlanta, we showed him everything, and we\u2019re having discussions with him.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Winther, Ellison is enthusiastic about the duo\u2019s work. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s pretty open to what we\u2019re doing,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s a big fan, he\u2019s been great with us. He\u2019s giving us kind of what we want. So far, everything\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n Winther added that the existing slate is rolling forward: \u201cWe do have a slate and a lot of it \u2014 obviously, Clayface is already coming out. We already have the Lanterns TV show. On those things, the train\u2019s left the station. So we\u2019re good.\u201d<\/p>\n The Detail Everyone Will Miss<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the part worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n
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Every single project Winther names as locked in \u2014 Clayface, the Lanterns series, The Batman: Part II, Supergirl, and Man of Tomorrow \u2014 was greenlit and put into motion under the previous Warner Bros. Discovery regime. <\/p>\n These were part of the original DCU slate Gunn and Safran announced back in 2023, long before Paramount Skydance entered the picture. And we also know some of those projects aren\u2019t moving forward.<\/p>\n So when Ellison shows up and says to keep going, he isn\u2019t greenlighting a new vision. He\u2019s declining to cancel work that\u2019s already shooting, which is exactly what any new owner would do with projects that are mid-production and represent sunk costs. <\/p>\n Torching films that are already in front of cameras would be a financial non-starter. Letting them finish is the obvious, expected move.<\/p>\n What\u2019s telling is what isn\u2019t there: nothing new has been announced beyond Man of Tomorrow. Winther even hints at it himself, saying they \u201calready know what the next movie\u2019s going to be after that,\u201d but it remains unannounced. <\/p>\n Every concrete project he can point to predates Paramount. The forward slate past 2027 is still a blank page.<\/p>\n James Gunn vs Zack Snyder<\/p>\n That empty post-Man of Tomorrow slate remains the real question. <\/p>\n If the current DC regime were locked in for the long haul, you\u2019d expect to see new tentpoles being announced and lined up. Instead, everything concrete on the board is inherited from the old guard.<\/p>\n As we laid out in our breakdown of DC\u2019s uncertain future<\/a>, the signs of a regime in transition are still piling up, and a hands-on new owner backing the in-flight slate doesn\u2019t change the fact that what comes after it remains undefined. <\/p>\n Our insiders have continued to report that a SnyderVerse return is in active discussion<\/a> as part of those bigger-picture conversations. Reports also continue to say Gunn will be out and even may return to Marvel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Supergirl flies into theaters June 26, with Man of Tomorrow set for 2027.<\/p>\n Matt McGloin is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Cosmic Book News, the independent entertainment news site he founded in 2008. He covers movies, comics, TV, video games and pop culture and has reported major industry scoops over the years, including revealing the Avengers: Endgame title ahead of its official announcement. Through Cosmic Book News, he helped Marvel Comics promote Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova through exclusive previews, artwork, and interviews, with the site also quoted in solicitations and on comic covers. He also reported on Marvel\u2019s Daredevil: Born Again retooling before it was later confirmed by the trades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is there still hope for James Gunn and his DCU? The week of the Supergirl release, THR,runs a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":888122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[57778,171,956,151292,119104,53,15329,37769,54221,9180,67,132,68,27281],"class_list":["post-888121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-clayface","tag-entertainment","tag-james-gunn","tag-lanterns","tag-man-of-tomorrow","tag-movies","tag-paramount","tag-peter-safran","tag-supergirl","tag-superman","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-warner-bros-discovery"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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