James Gunn shows that Warner Bros. learns from DCEU’s failure

By Chris Snellgrove | Published 10 seconds ago

In a really strange turn of events, Clayface I just became the most anticipated movie of the DCU. Of course, next Superman The film looks fun, but we have seen the stockings and flights of Steel’s man on the big screen several times; Than us No seen is a prestigious horror movie written by Midnight mass Master Mike Flanagan and Do not speak badly Director James Watkins. The creative powers behind the Clayface The films are evidence that James Gunn has learned from DCEU’s failures and is ready to create comic films for adults that are not just exercises in the municipality of edgelord.

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To understand the importance of Clayface for James Gunn’s DCU, it is important to look back in what made the DCEU such a colossal fault. In retrospect, the biggest problem of the film universe was his attempt to position himself as a more serious alternative to Marvel. Basically, if the MCU were full of family superheroes, the DCEU would be full of avant -garde stories brought to life by even more nervous characters.

That idea works on paper. After all, the best way for a new cinematographic universe to succeed is that it differs from its greatest competitor. However, the problem is that “nervous” gave way to “edgelord” almost from the beginning: Superman’s initial adventure ends with him killing Zod, for example, and only after his fight almost knocked down all the buildings in Metropolis. Later, DCEU tried to lighten bringing Buffy The Vampire Slayer Creator Joss Whedon to edit Zack Snyder’s Justice LeagueBut that CGI mustache cover -up film was so bad that the studio finally yielded and launched the original Snyder film.

In other words, this cinematographic universe went from being nervous to being friendly to the family and back, and it was soon clear that Warner Bros. was throwing everything against the wall and seeing what was stuck. He was honestly shameful to see, but as DC superfan, Clayface excites me. The great names attached to this history of origin of the villain provide tentative evidence that James Gunn learned from the failure of DCEU and can finally offer a serious alternative to the MCU that does not constantly make us deeply deeply in our seats.

While the exact details of history are unknown, it is very rumored that Clayface It will be a horror/thriller written about the tragic story of the main character. It is equally unknown which version of the villain we will see, since it is unlikely that this serious film would portray it as the mud man we see in cartoon like Batman: The animated series and Harley Quinn. This seems to be a very serious version of a character with great patetism, and Mike Flanagan and James Watkins are making it come true.

While this illustrates how James Gunn knows how to gather the murderous talent, how does he demonstrate all this he learned from DCEU failures? In summary, it seems that we will begin to obtain serious alternatives to the MCU that treat their characters and their audiences with equal dignity. That is certainly a very Low bar, but it was not a long time that Warner Bros. tried Suicide squad and bone -headed vanity projects like Black Adam… compared to those films, ClayE has the potential to transform comics movies as we know them.

Taking into account the current state of Marvel, James Gunn has chosen the best time to give us a more mature alternative to the bankrupt DCEU. The MCU has become a swollen disaster of disconcerting stories and an acrobatics casting, such as the strange decision to bring Robert Downey Jr. back as Doctor Doom. If the DCU can start running with films such as Clayface And remind the public the potential of comic films, then Warner Bros. I could finally solve the persistent problem of superhero fatigue, which could prevent a whole genre from following the west in a sunset of cinematographic irrelevance.

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