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Geek Tyrant
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
James Gunn Reveals Why He Pulled the Plug on a Greenlit DCU Movie - "We Can't Make This Film" — GeekTyrant
James Gunn had to make tough call when it came to a DC movie that was being developed that he was intially excited about. In a recent interview with NPR, the DC Studios co-CEO revealed more details about a previously greenlit DC film that he ultimately scrapped after multiple drafts of the script failed to improve. "We had a movie that was greenlit. We got [the] second draft and [the] third draft, and it just wasn't changing. It wasn't getting better," Gunn explained. "It was staying in the same place. And I said, we can't make this film. We can't. It's not good. We know it's not good." Gunn went on to stress that having a talented team doesn't guarantee success if the story isn't working: "Just because we have a good director attached and a good screenwriter, it doesn't mean the script is working. Everyone is going to be upset at the end of this. 'It's going to come out, the movie's not going to be good. Director's going to look bad, screenwriter's going to look bad and we're going to look bad. So I don't want to have this. We're not going to make the movie. And so we killed it." While Gunn didn't reveal which project it was, the admission shows how committed he is to quality over simply pushing out content for the sake of a schedule. The DCU officially launched its theatrical slate with Superman , starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor. Up next is a Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow set to hit theaters next summer, and a Clayface movie that begins production later this year. What do you think, was Gunn right to axe a movie that wasn't working, even with big names attached?
New York Times
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
James Gunn Didn't Want to Make ‘Superman.' What Changed His Mind?
'Today I have my wits about me,' James Gunn said. 'I was going to die yesterday, I was so tired.' It was two weeks before the release of 'Superman,' and I had met Gunn at the film's Los Angeles press junket, just one stop on the director's whirlwind, worldwide media tour. At the time, he was hopeful that the movie would connect with audiences, and it certainly has: 'Superman' opened last weekend with $125 million at the domestic box office and earned an A- CinemaScore from audiences. Still, that success barely affords Gunn the opportunity to sleep any easier. 'Because this is our first DC movie and I'm also the head of the studio,' he said, 'I haven't had a day off work for months.' Best known for directing Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy' movies, Gunn was initially lured to DC Studios in 2018, when Marvel fired the filmmaker over resurfaced tweets. Though he was eventually rehired to finish the 'Guardians' trilogy, his work on DC projects like 'The Suicide Squad' and 'Peacemaker' impressed the Warner Bros. Discovery chief executive David Zaslav, who tapped Gunn to run DC Studios alongside the producer Peter Safran. 'I've always had this desire to create a fictional universe,' said Gunn, 58. 'I got hints of that with 'Guardians' and the cosmic universe of Marvel, but since I took on DC I knew that I was just going to have to go crazy for the first few years.' That commitment meant juggling many major projects simultaneously: At one point, Gunn was filming both 'Superman' (with David Corenswet in the title role) and the second season of 'Peacemaker' (starring John Cena and Gunn's wife, Jennifer Holland) while also overseeing forthcoming DC projects like the film 'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow,' out next year from the director Craig Gillespie. 'I also had to resign myself to the fact that I can't do everything,' he said. 'I give notes on all these other projects, but I can't micromanage' them all, even though, he added, 'I always want to do more. That's been difficult, finding at least some boundaries.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
James Gunn's Superman soars past $215 million box office open amid rave reviews
James Gunn's new Superman reboot has exceeded both box office and critical expectations. Released in theaters Friday, the new DC movie stars David Corenswet as the undercover, bespectacled superhero, opposite Rachel Brosnahan as his love interest, Lois Lane. Nicholas Hoult features as iconic supervillain Lex Luthor. According to box office figures, Superman had already raked in $22.5 million in Thursday previews. By Friday, that figure had more than doubled to $56.5 million domestically. Overseas, it added $40 million, bringing its worldwide total to $96.5 million — surpassing early estimates of $90 million. This domestic opening day total makes it the second biggest of 2025, just behind A Minecraft Movie, which debuted in April to $57.11 million, and ahead of Lilo & Stitch's $55.94 million May opening. Superman was projected to reach over $210 million globally after its first weekend in theaters, and it's done just that, officially hitting $217 million, per Variety. Written and directed by DC Studios boss Gunn, best known for his work on Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad, the retelling of the classic superhero takes a slightly different approach from other iterations. Rather than focusing on the classic origin story of the Man of Steel, this new version finds the superhero already three years active. 'Everything needs to stand by itself,' Gunn told The Wrap in December. 'I don't want somebody to have to go see this movie and be relying on anything else. If this sets up stuff in Peacemaker, which it does, then that's great. But that is never, ever, ever, with me, going to be something that I'm going to sacrifice even a moment or a beat in a story for, especially a movie.' It's safe to say the movie's rave reviews have only fueled its impressive box office performance. At the time of writing, the title holds an 82 percent on popular review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. 'James Gunn's Superman reboot will make you believe in superhero movies again,' The Independent's Clarrisse Loughrey declared in her four-star review. 'Superman is a manifesto for a franchise. It had no other choice but to be. The weight of expectation is so heavy at this point that even the audience might feel a little tension in their shoulders as they shuffle in to take their seats,' she added. '[It] doesn't just serve as a referendum for superhero films but for the cinematic future of DC as a whole.' Superman is out in theaters now.
