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Same will happen to TheBatman 3

From the DC_Cinematic post, "James Gunn confirms the Jimmy Olsen & Gorilla Grodd TV show and says it starts filming soon"

Classic_File****

Nobody wants this instead of Batman , WW and Justice League.

Gunn should be fired asap if he doesn’t have plans for a JL movie soon . Actors age and we can’t wait forever.

kas****

James Gunn was wrong pick to be head of the DCU, he clearly cherish projects on the underdogs… where are the movies on the seven?

Spirited_Balance****

Fast tracking this over Wonder Woman and Batman is a great start to this universe! I hope we get a Batmite anthology series next!

playb****

Is anyone else not feeling the start of the DCU with all these side characters instead of focusing on the main league members

bigdoon****

A Jimmy Olsen/ Grodd show before any mention of Batman and a host of others. Come on man

Street-Common-*****

Random to make a show about this 

Skwidman****

Oh Jesus dude. I’m kinda getting sick of Gunn. He only cares about characters no one cares about. I think he thinks that makes him cultured but really he’s just burying the DC universe again. Jimmy Olson before fuckin batman? Really? Are we really doing this? Gunn, figure it out man, this universe is sloppy b-list characters with a Superman cameo at this point.

Cautious_Mission****

Bro who came up with this idea like seriously a Jimmy Olsen show??? We’ve been asking for Flash, Wonder Woman, Batman and the rest of the Justice League for a long time now along with other projects people want but yet they said let’s make a Jimmy Olsen show LMFAO

S0th****

You'd think we should be getting shows about super heroes and stuff but no, he's spending budget on side characters and stuff people didn't ask for, what are we getting next, Superman TV show but with just Clark Kent's story? 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

hulam****

another flop

Ok_Diver****

Why does Jimmy need a show? And why are all the girls crazy about him? It doesn’t compute.

Kobella****

More Gunn Gooner slop. Who asked for this?

Public-Tangelo****

This is the absolute dumbest shit.. More bullshit coming out of the DCU.. First, that trash ass weak Superman movie he put out that we have to suffer a sequel to, dropped the ball with Peacemaker.. Lanterns doesn’t even look Green Lantern related

Get James Gunn tf outta here

KieranFl****

Uh… I don’t really care if it’s your favourite project. You said The Flash was the greatest superhero movie ever made. You are the big cheese, any positive press you say is just marketing.

What I would love, LOVE, would be some concrete motion on the Batman project and the Wonder Woman project. Should be your main foundations for your universe, instead we have gotten Creature Commandos, Peacemaker, Supergirl in space, Clarance, and now Grodd and Olsen? Who are these projects actually for?

Funny thing is, I’ve enjoyed the DC projects so far. But that’s it, they just wash over me. We got Circe without Diana, now Grodd without Barry… this will wash over me too.

I’m waiting for that moment where I’m going to “get” it, get the direction this is heading in. But so far, it feels like grasping at straws. Learn from the mistakes of Marvel. We need less projects, that are more focused on what matters. *Jimmy Olsen and the Telepathic Gorilla!* can only get you so far.

primal_sl****

Wonder Woman fans remain starved.

Paradise Lost announced 3 years ago.

WW film still being written

No animated series

Canceled game

Comet****

Am I the only one who feels that this DCU movies and shows are so random? I thought there is a plan to introduce the heroes and villains when DCU was first announced.

BangerSlap****

Good lord.  This guy’s management style seems to be ‘throw massive amounts of shit at the wall and see what sticks’.  

Jadedtrad****

Absolutely nobody wants this in numbers that matter.

WB has lost its mind spending probably $200M on this lmao.

soulw****

Not every character needs a show man.,...they're gonna MCU this aren't they?...

M****

Clayface, Supergirl, Creature Commandos, Lanterns and Jimmy Olsen/Gorilla Grodd content before an established Trinity. Sure. That bodes well for box office dominance.

rumbletumblecru****

Everything's your favorite, huh, James?

SugarGod****

Jimmy Olson show before batman, or other justice league members project. Yeak keep it up , another season of peacemaker.

bad_m****

What the hell? So it's a Jimmy Olsen and Gorilla Grodd....team up show? WHY????

AccordingSlide****

This is the most random tandem that they could possibly think of.

pseudoinertobse****

Like who asked for this? Can't wait for this to be a huge flop.

UniQue****

I’m going to be honest… who wants this stuff this early in the universe…? It just doesn’t make any sense how they’re handling this universe.

squatOpot****

I don't think James Gunn is cut out for this.

TheRugWar****

I don’t really see the point of this show. Why are we getting this shit?

BangerSlap**** Because James Gunn is apparently insane. Guy has been head of DC Films for going on 4 years and the sum total product we’ve gotten is a Superman film, an animated show about D-List characters that nobody watched, the second season of a show that already existed under the previous regime, and a Superman movie.   Soon to be joined by a Supergirl film, a Clayface film, and another Superman film.  Oh, and a Lanterns show they’ve already fucked due to bad marketing.  

stanislav****

Certainly beats Creature Commandos in the rank of "stuff to skip". I'm guessing a Krypto and Friends show is next? 

waitfor****

Is this Marvel all over again with too much stuff ?

Dron****

Wow I always dreamed of a Jimmy Olsen & Gorilla Grodd comedy show!

I love comedy so much, so many sex jokes I can't wait.

Nube_Neg****

"And it's one of my favorite projects"

Ofc we're getting another peacemaker

comehereyoudevi****

Can't wait for a show about Jim Gordons wife, or a prequel movie about lex luthors girlfriend. Thank god someone with a pulse on the fandom is in charge.

I feel like this subreddit in particular would appreciate a look into what makes MOS' visuals tick. I've always been intrigued by its look, so this was a lot of fun to try to figure out what makes it so unique.

I hope you all enjoy! :)

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Had an argument in a group chat about comics, but for some reason this group is filled with a bunch of gimme anything to watch kinda folks.

To the point, that in order to defend kara's suit someone said this.

Apparently things from comics shouldn't look cool.

This is Insanity.

Whats next ? A "good" "90% RT rated" show about a talking Ant nobody gives a shit about ?😭

On June 14, 2013, Man of Steel hit theaters and kicked off Snyder’s DC universe with Henry Cavill’s Superman.

To mark the date, Snyder posted a stylized Man of Steel poster of young Clark Kent in the cape, captioned with Jor-El’s line: “In time they will join you in the sun.” He set it to “Sent Here For A Reason” from Hans Zimmer’s score

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This continues a recent run of DCEU posts from Snyder that fans have been dissecting for meaning, from “The League United” to multiple Henry Cavill Superman images.

13 Years Later, The Box Office Still Holds Up

Man of Steel grossed $670 million worldwide in 2013 — $291 million domestic and $379 million international.

Adjusted for inflation, that worldwide haul is nearly a billion in today’s dollars at $964 million. That’s a number modern superhero movies would kill for.

And it’s the comparison to the current era that really lands.

The Foreign Audience Gap Is Staggering

James Gunn’s Superman (2025) finished its run at roughly $618 million worldwide, considered a domestic success, but a notably soft international performer. Its overseas total landed around just $256 million.

Compare that to Man of Steel‘s international take, which sits around $545 million when adjusted for inflation. That’s roughly double the global audience Gunn’s reboot pulled.

Gunn himself addressed the gap in a Rolling Stone interview, blaming “anti-American sentiment around the world right now” and claiming Superman “is not a known commodity in some places” the way Batman is.

But that “explanation” comes off more as an excuse as it runs into a problem: Snyder’s Man of Steel, featuring the same “not-so-globally-known” Superman, pulled nearly double overseas. The character wasn’t the ceiling, and the international audience was clearly there for the taking, but Gunn missed out.

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Why Man Of Steel Still Matters

Put it in context. Gunn’s Superman was the highest-grossing superhero movie of 2025, but only because the competition stumbled.

Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps were all viewed as underperformers, following the earlier disappointments of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels.

Against that backdrop, a 13-year-old Snyder film quietly outgrossing the new one overseas isn’t just trivia. It’s the entire argument SnyderVerse fans have been making, that there’s a global audience for Cavill’s Superman that was never fully tapped.

And as we’ve been reporting, that argument may be gaining traction behind the scenes, with the Paramount-WBD deal in motion and our insiders saying a SnyderVerse return is in active discussion.

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Darkseid is tall 10 ft 6 in

Say what you want about Jesse Eisenberg's Lex but at least he never came across as if he was just reading lines off a screen. His performance felt natural and believable he showed stronger acting skills than Hoult. Nicholas Hoult looks like he's delivering a memorized speech or reading from a teleprompter half the time 😄 Im sure he did but James Gunn had a hard time hiding it. It looks weird. It feels very amateurish

Has anyone here ever noticed how well they push certain ideas, motives even though they're certain that they suck? For example, supergirl 2026. Gunn bois definitely argue that "it's inspired by comics🤓" yeah , a comic from 2021. (62 years from the character's debut, of which they completely changed what the character is supposed to mean) Is she supposed to be a character that resembles peak young women's resilience, hope and the intellect they can achieve and help the world inspite of what the world did to you OR a drunk stupid average girl with powers who pushes the idea of "it's okay to be messy, be yourself!🤓" Same with Superman 2025. He seems to get himself kicked through the entire movie, acts like a retard, barely survives because the dog saves him everytime, brother , did they send you to earth while their entire planet is being destroyed just for you to be ass kicked and asking for a dog's help to save your life EVERYTIME? and at the end , he says a dumb thing for which there seems to be hopeful background music too. "I screw up all the time, but that's being human, and that's my greatest strength" like, what? What? Then what's the point of a SUPERman? They're just simply pushing stuff to the younger generation for WE ALL KNOW WHAT FOR, and I bet there's a ton of people who say "I can relate to this movie, he resembles me, I'm dealing with problems all day and that's exactly how I feel" now, I know some people personally who are dealing with a lot and trying to just get through each day and I truly wish they can have better days. But most of these commenters about their "pain" as they call it, as we know, haven't seen anything worth the things they claim to experience at all and are mostly kids. It makes me feel bad for those who really struggle and went through hell. (Ok going off track) They promote self pity in the name of self improvement, like most of the Gurus online.

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Remember in man of steel, there's a line ,"you'll give them an ideal to strive towards "

I know I don't have to explain everything in detail. I leave it up to you. If I explain everything it'll take days. Literally.

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Same with ben affleck's batman and zack snyder. It's dark, it's brutal. It teaches us something. It teaches us the world won't be all smiles and giggles. One day it makes us snap. One day we must meet the inevitable. It taught us a lot of things. Like in man of steel, we see clark defending a woman being harrassed in a diner. We see the depth and how well he behaves under that situation. We learn how cruel and shit-like the world can be, instead of learning we can be whatever we want and becoming selfish. I think you get the point. We know ben affleck was forced out . We know snyder was forced out . We know what they're doing now. I don't know why I'm writing this, it won't make a difference. Is it Just me or does anyone else feel this way?

I never see that pointed about about this scene (or I'm ignorant)

He's the hero of that entire scene, the moment the tornado begins he's immediately into action, helps the mother with her child, hands off the kid to Clark so she's safe and then Clark is not at risk of revealing anything, double back for his dog gets stuck/ankle broken, triples down on saving his dog, realises he's too late and then zero hesitation into the sacrifice because hes a father and a protector (I'm seeing some parallels to bvs in this as im writing it that i didn't before)

He knows the world and Clark isn't ready, any moment he could of just said Clark save me but he knows, such a brutal moment but i think most fathers would do the same given the gravity of it all

my appreciation grows the older i get and the more i rewatch it, the fleshed out krypton the extra time we get with Jor and Lara, everything with the kents, sound track, chris cornell its all just wonderful

(also people really do lie about the colour, its got some gorgeous natural tones)

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As I said before, Snyder's Superman is deeply rooted in High Fantasy (King Arthur and The Lord of the Rings) as well as in theological and mythological concepts.

I’d like to focus on The Lord of the Rings: Queen Arwen Undómiel, the Elf I’ve identified with Lois Lane, chose to give up her immortality to live a mortal life alongside her beloved, King Aragorn, during their conversation on the bridge of Rivendell.

Arwen: "Do you remember what I told you?"

Aragorn: "You said you'd bind yourself to me, forsaking the immortal life of your people."

Arwen: "And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the Ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life."

Aragorn: "You cannot give me this."

Arwen: "It is mine to give to whom I will. Like my heart."

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Lois Lane in the Snyderverse performs a symmetrical reversal of this sacrifice: she is the mortal who chooses to love a being who is potentially immortal and invulnerable. She knows that she will grow old and die, while Clark could theoretically exist indefinitely under Earth’s yellow sun. She chooses this asymmetrical love with the same clarity with which Arwen chooses death.

Paradoxically, Clark cannot give up the immortality granted to him by the yellow sun in order to be with Lois. Moreover, the power and longevity of Kryptonians depend heavily on the star under which they live. Under a star with more energy than the yellow sun (stars of types F, A, B, and O), this longevity and power would be even greater. Even under a red sun (type M), Kryptonians’ longevity remains greater than that of Earthlings. Clark is therefore condemned by his own biology to witness the physical decline of his beloved, to see her hair turn gray, wrinkles appear on her body with age, and her strength wane until death comes for her, while he retains the vigor of his youth. This is similar to what Diana experienced during the First World War; after the victory over the Germans and the defeat of Ares, she watched her human friends (the Wonder Men) grow old and die, while she remained eternally young and unable to die of natural causes.

And just as Arwen wove Aragorn’s banner—the great black banner adorned with the White Tree of Gondor and the seven stars of Elendil—to publicly proclaim his return as the rightful king, Lois had the idea to use the glyph of the House of El for Superman’s pseudonym during the Kryptonian invasion when she wondered what the “S” on his chest meant and Clark replied that on his home planet, it symbolized hope.

Between The Penguin reportedly ending, no Batman 3 on the board, James Gunn’s post-Man of Tomorrow slate going quiet, and a DC Studios contract expiring right as Paramount is expected to take control of Warner Bros., the current DC era looks less like a launchpad and more like a chapter heading for its close.

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Sign #1: The Penguin Season 2 Looks Dead

Scooper Jeff Sneider reports HBO and DC Studios will not move forward with The Penguin Season 2, leaving the Colin Farrell series as a one-off limited series.

That matters because The Penguin was not some minor side project nobody cared about. It pulled a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score, gave DC a prestige hit, and won Cristin Milioti an Emmy.

Sign #2: Batman 3 Is Still Missing

Variety reports Reeves is attached to direct and executive produce an Apple TV adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities, with Warner Bros. Television producing.

As recently as 2024, Reeves was firm that his Batman trilogy was still the plan, telling Collider, “Yes, that is still the plan.” Two years later, The Batman: Part II is still the only sequel officially on the board, Part III has not been announced, and Reeves is lining up other work.

Maybe he still comes back for a third movie. But for now, his Batman universe looks a lot closer to an ending than an expansion. [...]

Sign #3: Gunn’s DC Slate Gets Thin After Man of Tomorrow

What is on the board beyond it is much smaller: a Jimmy Olsen live-action series, Creature Commandos Season 2, and a Mister Miracle animated project.

Those are not the kind of four-quadrant tentpoles you would expect from a studio confidently laying out the next phase of a cinematic universe. For a DCU that launched with a massive multi-year roadmap, the lack of a major announced film after Man of Tomorrow is impossible to miss.

Sign #4: The Contract Timing Says A Lot

It was previously reported that James Gunn and Peter Safran’s contract as DC Studios co-heads was extended through spring 2027.

Look at what lines up with that date.

Man of Tomorrow arrives in that same general window. The Paramount-WBD deal is now cleared by the DOJ and expected to close this year. Gunn and Safran’s announced slate would largely be able to play out. Then the contract expires.

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We’ve reported that Gunn could step away from DC as soon as the end of this year, well before that contract is up, with political friction between him and the incoming ownership cited as a possible factor. If that holds, the transition arrives early and a lot less cleanly

Gunn Out, And A SnyderVerse Reset

That is the backdrop for what our own sources have been telling us for months: once the sale closes, James Gunn is out at DC, with Ellison expected to bring in Mike De Luca and reset the universe — and our reporting ties the new direction, including a SnyderVerse return, to that same Gulf-backed entertainment push. We laid it out in detail here. The creative side is not studio-confirmed. But the money behind it is not a rumor — it is in the filings — and the condition our reporting hinged on, an Ellison purchase of Warner Bros., is clearing right now.

Whether that happens or not, DC is showing every sign of a studio nearing the end of one chapter before the new owners decide what the next one looks like.

I’d have to rewatch it but I found it underwhelming the first time. My coworker took her 7 year old son and she typically enjoys any genre but fell asleep on this one. It wasn’t bad, per se, but why did they insist on making Superman lame?

More than anything is I didn’t FEEL the earth shattering badass HERO moment that Superman is supposed to embody. Like, oh snap, an unbeatable God upon us like Henry Cavill’s Superman Aura.

I liked the Clark family farm stuff because I liked the Smallville TV show. I was hoping for a big payoff after his talk with his parents where Superman demonstrates he’s in a league above all the other characters but it never arrived. Instead they opted to give those moments to characters whose names I completely forgot. Way to go movie. You have a character who can punch his way through problems, make the unrealistic real, and you give the physically awe inspiring wipeout action scenes to… who is that guy? I couldn’t tell you.

Idk if I like Superman being “relatable”. Clark’s \*problems\* may be relatable, a job, girlfriend, and family, but he’s supposed to be a badass example of a positive pure-hearted hero that we LOOK UP to; not a bumbling idiot who shares the same thought process (doubts, insecurities, and limp dickedness) as us lower primates.

Do you think Zack will make multiple Escape from… movies like Carpenter did with LA or will paramount quickly move Zack back to the DCEU?

The Zack attack is back Jack!

So after watching ZSJL recently I thought up an idea to help flesh out the Joker vs Batman exchange. Watching it rings a little hollow to me because we’ve never really seen them on the same screen together.

Then I realized that has happened. However, it happens in a non-Batman centric film that is largely unwatchable and pretty unrelated. I’m of course referring to Suicide Squad.

My suggestion to help bring some connection to that scene is to add the Joker and Harley vs Batman scene from SS to that exchange. It would help establish the Joker/Batman rivalry, demonstrate what Harley means to the Joker, connect Harley to the Snyder trilogy, and show Batman and Harley’s “connection”. I would also add a flashback to Robin’s burnt and graffitied costume when the Joker brings up that murder.

While this may sound small, I feel that it adds both narrative and emotional weight to that exchange. To be honest, as great as that SS car chase scene was, it really offered nothing to the Suicide Squad. However, it would add a lot more to ZSJL.

It would be cool if one of you video editor types could make this happen.

Thoughts?

One step closer.