James Gunn, DC and Elseworlds
James Gunn clarifies how The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker Season 1 fit into the DCU's canon following the release of Creature Commandos.
In 2023, before Aquaman, DC released Blue Beetle. The movie was a massive box office flop and it isn’t part of the new DCU. But the Blue Beetle hero featured in the movie is in fact part of the DCU, and the actor who played him will return in the future in an animated series that will reference the movie, but will be a canon adventure in the DCU.
Superman isn’t due in theaters until July 11, but writer-director James Gunn is already getting up, up and away on his next project. The filmmaker, who heads DC Studios with producer Peter Safran, is producing the now-shooting Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow as the second film in the newly unified DC Universe,
Both those projects were helmed by James Gunn, who also made Creature Commandos, has his Superman movie coming this summer on the 2025 movies schedule, and is running DC Studios with producer Peter Safran.
Superman Unlimited will kick off May 21, and will be set up with a “Zero Issue” in DC’s Free Comic Book Day issue on May 3. According to DC, the “Summer of Superman” will include ongoing and limited books for fellow Supers like Supergirl, Superboy, and Krypto.
DC Studios co-CEO and writer/director James Gunn shared a personal update on social media, including that the LA wildfires spared his home.
One of the new superheroes in the DC Universe will make their first appearance on the big screen in the upcoming Superman movie.
We recently learned that Dan Slott would be leaving Marvel Comics to pen a new DC Comics series as part of the publisher's "Summer of Superman" initiative, and James Gunn has now shared some new
For Superman, one of these baddies is Conduit, a villain who started with potential but fell out of the spotlight until a recent reappearance in Action Comics #1044. Created by long-time Superman talents Dan Jurgens and Louise Simonson,
Along with Superman and Peacemaker post-production work, James Gunn shared that he's been "pre-writing my next DC Studios project."
The Elseworlds story of the DCU is the backbone of the franchise, and, as a result, a new slew of projects are on the way.