After Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon’s Justice League flopped in 2017 — it made about $660 million and has a 39% on Rotten Tomatoes — Warner Bros. met with Feige “to attempt to persuade him to modify sides,” in line with a brand new Wall Road Journal report. Feige is the president of Marvel Studios and has been a producer or government producer on nearly each Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) challenge since 2008’s Iron Man.
WSJ famous “these talks fizzled” between DC and Feige, and Feige has remained because the chief of the MCU since. The DC Prolonged Universe (DCEU) continued post-Justice League with movies like Aquaman (the one DCEU movie to prime $1 billion on the field workplace) and Birds of Prey, but it surely too fizzled out after Warner Bros. introduced plans to reboot the universe. Gunn and producer Peter Safran had been introduced on board to lend their imaginative and prescient.
Gunn’s first DC Universe (DCU) movie releases Friday in Superman (Gunn’s 2021 The Suicide Squad is technically aside of the previous DCEU). Superman has landed effectively with critics up to now, and will open to greater than $125 million domestically, in line with pre-release surveys. Proper behind it to offer it a run for its blockbuster cash: The Incredible 4: First Steps, produced by Kevin Feige, opening on July 25.
Peacemaker season 2 is the subsequent DCU challenge, premiering Aug. 21, whereas Supergirl arrives in June 2026. Gunn and Safran’s purpose is to “re-establish” DC’s Trinity — Superman, Batman, and Marvel Lady — within the DCU and “unite them in a brand new Justice League movie,” in line with the report. Second time’s the appeal?
