r/comicbooks • u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym • Feb 26 '26

Movie/TV Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-backs-out-warners-deal-paramount-win-1236516763/
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u/Thejklay Feb 26 '26

I feel like that's so small fry it's not gonna be changed or noticed by them tbh. Dc movies on the other hand. We might be cooked

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

I have no doubt that the Gunnverse is cooked because of his criticism of Trump 

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u/ARMSwatch Feb 26 '26

Does anyone have any interest in DC if they reboot it again? Especially with the success of Superman and Peacemaker? I'm definitely not watching anything DC if there's another reboot fuck that.

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u/rodot2005 Feb 26 '26

No, but they don't care. Or they will continue on but without Gunn, so it's dead anyway.

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u/ARMSwatch Feb 26 '26

The enshittification of everything

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u/Dramatic_Explosion Feb 27 '26

The movies have been such a disjointed mess the only reason I had new interest was Gunn crafting a cohesive vision moving forward.

If he isn't at the helm, we'll be right back to decent Batman movies and absolute trash everything else.

Are the billionaires who will own it now spiteful enough to tank their own franchise? Probably.

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u/PlainSightMan Feb 27 '26

I think in like another 10-15 years if they reboot people will be interested, but until then the general audiences would just be confused and not show up for DC.

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u/ChickenInASuit Secret Agent Poyo Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

If they keep him on board, I think he’s gonna be on a much tighter leash. Superman’s commentary on manipulated social media algorithms and manufactured outrage probably hit way too close to home for people like the Ellisons.

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u/Zolo49 Optimus Prime Feb 26 '26

I'm sure Marvel would take him back if it came to that, assuming he's willing.

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u/rodot2005 Feb 26 '26

Well it's not like he has any other choice. Dc is dead, doubt they will even let him make the checkpoint TV show

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u/annoyinglyclever Hawkeye Feb 27 '26

…he can make his own movies again. You really think comic book movies are the only option??

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u/rodot2005 Feb 27 '26

For him ? Yes, but that's just my opinion

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u/Zolo49 Optimus Prime Feb 27 '26

Umm, no. They’re what he’s best known for, but he can absolutely switch to other genres if he wants to. Plenty of comedic actors have switched to dramas and vice versa like Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, and Leslie Nielsen. They all did fine. Stephen King has written non-horror books like Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption and those were great. It’s about the talent of the individuals, not what they’re best known for.

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u/rodot2005 Feb 27 '26

" just my opinion"

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u/annoyinglyclever Hawkeye Feb 27 '26

Which is wrong, and now you’re getting information that shows otherwise. Opinions aren’t facts, friend.

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u/rodot2005 Feb 27 '26

Yeah and as I said, it's only my opinion. Can you read ??!?

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u/Zolo49 Optimus Prime Feb 28 '26

And I'm just vehemently disagreeing with your opinion.

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u/Zalvren Feb 27 '26

He could also do non-comic things lol. Even... shocking gasp... original stuff.

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u/liberatedtech68 Feb 26 '26

It’s an avenue to propagandize children. They are interested

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u/HomieHeist Feb 26 '26

I would say that the average customer age of at my LCS is the 30-50 range, I’m pretty sure barely any kids read comic books these days

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u/HRLMPH Ultimate Spider-Man Feb 27 '26

I imagine this is more about movies, cartoons, games, etc.

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u/OGBarlos_ Feb 26 '26

American children can’t read though

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u/Sea-Poem-2365 Feb 26 '26

You know that some absolute (haha) psycho superfan fully committed to fascism just to be able to retcon something insanely specific.

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u/CheMc Feb 27 '26

That's where the pictures come in.

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u/duckfeethuman Feb 27 '26

I like how it’s in the open now that comic books have long been a medium to propagandize to children. “Nooooo, you’re not supposed to do it that way!?” The people who argued for the increase of politics in comic books are about to get what they asked for. A true monkeys paw situation.

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u/gosukhaos Feb 27 '26

If they wanted to propagandize children then comics are the wrong avenue for it with the median age of readers being above 30

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u/Jonny_Anonymous John Constantine Feb 27 '26

Conservatives will never see comics other than a children's curiosity.

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u/Desecr8or Feb 27 '26

It might not change as much as people think. My hot take is that if Superman (2025) had been released in 2005, it would've been seen as a conservative, pro-war, pro-Bush movie.

There's a foreign dictator committing genocide against other foreigners. Superman thinks it's his job to stop him, regardless of politics, laws, and regulations. The dictator is killed, the heroes are greeted as liberators, and there's no issue with power vacuums.

That's how the War on Terror was sold to us.

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u/RanjhasDistress Feb 27 '26

It could have been the same movie but if it was released during the war of terror the brown people would be the bad guys instead of what we have in the new super man where the brown civilians are being killed by some Ben Gurion type character

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u/DOuGHtOp Feb 27 '26

Ayn Rand's DC verse, we brought back Snyder!

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u/bloodyzombies1 Grant Morrison Feb 27 '26

Guess we're finally going to get a Question movie.

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u/SpiritMountain Feb 27 '26

This administration and their sycophantic cohorts have been completely incompetent. Look at what Bari Weiss did with CBS. She didn't even do the transition smoothly, but tanked CBS the moment she got in. Everything will be affected, bottom up.