DC Extended Universe

Screenshot: Warner Bros.Michael Shannon reprises his role as the Superman villain General Zod in the recently released swan song of the DCEU, The Flash. He has previously admitted he was confused by Zod’s return to the silver screen given that Superman murdered the shit out of him in Man of Steel. Now he says, quite pointedly, that big blockbusters are “mindless entertainment” he has no interest in. Quelle coïncidence!How The Last Airbender Inspired Lisette OliveraIn a new interview with Empire, the actor has nothing but…

Few superheroes have had as tumultuous a media presence as Superman. Joel Shuster and Jerry Siegel’s 1938 creation grew in popularity outside of comics thanks to Christopher Reeve’s movies and the 1990s cartoon (and the subsequent DC Animated Universe shows that spawned from it). During the 2000s, the character’s live-action efforts consisted of the 10-season Smallville from the WB (now the CW), and 2006’s Superman Returns served as the hero’s last theatrical movie for nearly a decade. Warner Bros. made several efforts to…

Despite what the commercials, trailers, and posters are telling you, The Flash is not a movie about Batman or Supergirl. They’re both very much in it, sometimes more than once, and maybe after years of controversy and delays, Warner Bros. thought their inclusion would help get people into the theater. It probably will.But, as the title succinctly suggests, The Flash is very much about “The Flash,” and those other characters are there merely to enrich a very personal story with the type of big-screen bombast fans expect…

The year is 2014. Warner Bros. makes a superhero-sized splash and announces not just that Justice League, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman movies are coming, but that a Flash movie is coming and the Flash will be played by Ezra Miller.How The Last Airbender Inspired Lisette OliveraFast-forward to today. Finally, after almost a decade, The Flash is finally coming to theaters. In that time at least three different teams of filmmakers tried to figure out how to bring the speedster to the big screen, just as the DC slate of films…

Alright, everyone. This is the warning—the spoiler warning. I am going to tell you a person who shows up in The Flash as a super secret cameo, and some of you aren’t going to like it. Much like Warner Bros. “revealed” the Wonder Woman cameo in Shazam: Fury of the Gods and tip-toed around the big Superman cameo in Black Adam, we’ve got another case of a major moment coming out before it should have. What Does James Gunn Want from His Superman Movie? | io9 InterviewSo, here we go. Speaking to Variety, Andy Muschietti, The…

Screenshot: Warner Bros.Though the future of the DC movie universe was revealed in full months ago, there’s still some remnants of the DCEU lingering. Next up is The Flash, which Warner Bros. has been trying to make for basically a decade, and is finally about come out. With CinemaCon underway, Warner Bros. has revealed a fresh new trailer.The Flash - Official Trailer 2The film takes inspiration from Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert’s 2011 Flashpoint comic, wherein Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) opts to race back in time and…

Image: DC StudiosCreature Commandos is gearing up to kick off the new DC Studios canon. The animated show from James Gunn will star Indira Varma (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Game of Thrones) and Marvel veteran Frank Grillo, among others.Spoilers of the Week March 30-April 1Grillo’s casting as Rick Flagg Sr.—father of Rick Flagg, played by Joel Kinnaman in The Suicide Squad—was confirmed by The Wrap. Collider announced the full cast, led by Indira Varma as the Bride. Filling out the Creature Commando roster are David Harbour (Stranger…

A new report claims Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam may have actually changed the hierarchy of power in the DC universe as he claimed it would, but not in the way it was originally attended. Instead, he may have blown it up completely, whether he planned to or not.The Wrap claims that Johnson, star and producer of Black Adam, privately “vetoed a planned post-credits scene in Black Adam, which would have seen Shazam recruited by Aldis Hodge’s Hawkman, and other costumed heroes, into the Justice Society of America.” Such a …

Can a post-credit scene be more important than the movie itself? It’s an intriguing question to ponder, particularly if you’ve seen the two post-credit scenes waiting at the end of Shazam: Fury of the Gods. One’s a shocking, confusing bombshell that—actually, let’s get the spoiler warning up before I discuss them in even vague terms.We’ll discuss the second scene first, which finds the original Shazam movie villain—Dr. Sivana, played by Mark Strong—who’s clearly still being imprisoned since the events of the first movie,…

The latest DC film, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, is now in theaters, and like its most recent predecessor, Black Adam, it does its best to firmly establish itself in the larger mythology of the overarching franchise.But surprises and cameos aren’t all that make Shazam: Fury of the Gods stand out. The film’s director David F. Sandberg talks with io9 about the film’s emotional ending (and why that was the ending)—and yes, that massive cameo, as well as if he thinks Black Adam is hovering around somewhere off-screen.After…