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James Gunn’s brave and bold vision for the DCU deserved better than early grave

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James Gunn’s brave and bold vision for the DCU deserved better than early grave

You'll have heard the news by now... As announced yesterday, James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping away from DC Studios to be replaced by former Marvel exec Jeremy Latcham. The first phase of the DCU, it seems, is over. What comes next? Well, that's still very much TBC.

This is not entirely shocking news, but it’s still – for me at least – something of a downer. Gunn and Safran's DCU has been surprising, strange, daring, occasionally baffling, and often thrilling. I loved Superman and Lanterns and liked Peacemaker, Clayface, and Creature Commandos a great deal.

OK, the Supergirl film was a misfire and proved that Gunn's winning style was not so easily aped by other directors, but even that had its moments: Milly Alcock was terrific in the lead role, and Krypto is always fun.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been frequently criticised for the homogeneity of its output, but that was never a criticism that could be levelled at the DCU, which veered from family-friendly superhero flicks to rated-R horror movies with any given project.

That's probably not good news if you're a Warner Bros. exec desperately trying to forge the next big mega-franchise, however. And it's true that it has sometimes been hard to understand exactly what the criteria were for a DCU project making it to the screen or not. We exist in a strange timeline where we have a fairly solid Clayface movie, but no DCU Batman to go with it.


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