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Time travel is tricky. The very things that make it appealing are the things that make it tough to depict with any sort of logic or continuity. Need to rewrite a tragic ending? Boom. Time travel. Lose a loved one? Bam. Time travel. You get the picture. It’s a storytelling trick that the MCU and DCU have been relying on for the past couple years, but as many fans have been quick to point out, their application doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. There are plot holes galore. In the interest of providing an alternative to…

Superman: Legacy will officially be the first film in the upcoming DCU, but we’ll be a getting a look at its first character just next month when Blue Beetle drops into theaters. It’s certainly a wise move from all of those involved with the film; connecting oneself with the DC Extended Universe at this point is begging for box office disaster. There’s quite a bit going for Blue Beetle, being the first major Latino-led superhero film about one of DC Comics’ most colorful, fascinating, and likeable characters; all we need…

The Flash played fast and loose with DC continuity. That shouldn’t be a surprise for anyone familiar with superhero films: The Flash was inspired by the timeline-hoping comic book story Flashpoint and was released on the heels of James Gunn taking over as DC’s creative director. A takeover that explicitly plans to scrap the DCEU and start from scratch. What then, does that mean for the end of The Flash? For those who need a fresh recap or who haven’t seen it and don’t care about spoilers, the film ends with Barry Allen…

With James Gunn now in the midst of putting the first building blocks in place for the DCU’s incoming overhaul by securing his Clark Kent and Lois Lane for Superman: Legacy, the floodgates of speculation regarding the rest of the ensemble are wide open. As much as his critics use it as a means to attack him on a personal professional level, there’s inevitably going to be a handful of regular collaborators who end up making the jump alongside him, with Guardians of the Galaxy veteran and The Suicide Squad guest star Pom…

Image via Warner Bros. Thanks to Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The Flash cratering at the box office and losing hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars for Warner Bros., the chances of Blue Beetle and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom suffering a similar fate has risen exponentially. Through no fault of their own, the franchise’s remaining 2023 releases are fighting an uphill battle to convince audiences they’re worth watching, and history has shown in startling terms that paying customers are quickly losing…

via Warner Bros. The current incarnation of the DCU looks set to go out with a whimper, rather than a bang. Black Adam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The Flash have all been box office catastrophes for Warner Bros. That’s especially true for the latter, which was hyped to high heaven as “one of the greatest superhero movies of all-time,” but may lose the studio an incredible $200 million. The immediate future isn’t looking so hot, either. The Blue Beetle trailers are actually pretty fun, though nobody is…

Image via Warner Bros. Animation James Gunn and Peter Safran have finally picked their new Superman and a new Lois Lane for their Superman: Legacy film. This is excellent news for all those waiting with bated breath to see what would happen to the character after Henry Cavill announced his time in the cape was over, but another role still needs filling, and we may have to be patient. It was announced today that Gunn and Safran’s Superman will be played by David Corenswet (Pearl), with Lois Lane played by Rachel…

via Universal You could argue that there’s something ghoulish about the way the incoming DCU reboot is being given life out of the dead carcass of the original DCEU, so maybe it’s fitting that studio co-CEO James Gunn seems determined to reflect his franchise’s origins on screen by pilfering a concept from the most notorious shared universe in cinema history, one which died its own ugly death six years ago. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny‘s James Mangold, one of only three filmmakers attached to the DCU…

Screengrab via YouTube James Gunn and Peter Safran announcing that the first slate of projects in the rechristened DCU would fall under the Chapter 1: Gods & Monsters banner certainly made it sound like a shared universe, as did the co-CEOs outlining how characters would recur across film, television, live-action, animation, and possibly even video games, but James Mangold doesn’t care. The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker behind such disparate and renowned titles as Walk the Line, Cop Land, Logan, Indiana…

via Warner Bros. When the news broke earlier today that Warner Bros. was open to licensing certain content to Netflix under the right circumstances, everybody knew exactly where the conversation would be heading sooner rather than later. After all, the big screen DCU has found itself in such dire straits that Black Adam – which was deemed enough of a disappointment to have star and producer Dwayne Johnson cast out in record time – will handily defeat The Flash at the box office to reign as the superhero saga’s…