{"id":152321,"date":"2022-12-09T01:22:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-gunn-responds-to-reports-of-wonder-woman-3-cancellation-dc-shakeup\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T01:22:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:22:01","slug":"james-gunn-responds-to-reports-of-wonder-woman-3-cancellation-dc-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-gunn-responds-to-reports-of-wonder-woman-3-cancellation-dc-shakeup\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn responds to reports of ‘Wonder Woman 3’ cancellation, DC shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Henry Cavill as Superman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. (Photo: Warner Bros.)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

There’s been a palpable level of excitement in the air among comic book movie fans since October’s announcement that James Gunn \u2014 the architect of Marvel’s hit Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> series who’s also brought his irreverent touch to DC properties like The Suicide Squad<\/em> and peacemaker<\/em> \u2014 was being named co-chairman of DC Studios alongside veteran producer Peter Safran.<\/p>\n

Was DC finally, finally<\/em> going to have a visionary in place (see Marvel’s longtime cap Kevin Feige) to create a cohesive roadmap for Warner Bros.’ wildly inconsistent superhero universe?<\/p>\n

That’ll take years to know<\/a>but the Gunn honeymoon hit a rough patch Wednesday with some fierce fan backlash to a story from The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> that claims DC is spiking a third Wonder Woman<\/em> movie directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot. (Update: The Wrap<\/em> reported Thursday that Jenkins left the project after refusing studio notes from Warner Bros. \u2014 not Gunn and Safran \u2014 on a treatment she turned in.)<\/p>\n

the THR<\/em> article also cited rumors that DC’s new brass could be officially closing the door on the Snyderverse, canceling a long-rumored Man of Steel 2<\/em> (which would be all the more surprising considering Henry Cavill’s much-ballyhooed return to the role in Black Man<\/em>) and sunsetting the Jason Momoa-led aquaman<\/em> series after next December’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom<\/em>. It also questions whether DC will invite Dwayne Johnson back for more action in light of recent reports that Black Man <\/em>is struggling to break even.<\/p>\n

Gunn responded to the report \u2014 and ostensibly the blowback \u2014 with a series of tweets<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo. As for the story yesterday in [The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>]some of it is true, some of it is half-true, some of it is not true, [and] some of it we haven’t decided yet whether it’s true or not,\u201d wrote Gunn, clearly attempting to calm the overzealous fans in his mentions, while clearly also not able to show much of his hand only weeks into his new tenure.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough this first month at DC has been fruitful, building the next ten years of story takes time and we’re still just beginning,\u201d Gunn continued. “Peter [and] I chose to helm DC Studios knowing we were coming into a fractious environment, both in the stories being told [and] in the audience itself [and] there would be an unavoidable transitional period as we moved into telling a cohesive story across film, TV, animation, and gaming.<\/p>\n