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James Gunn, who was recently installed as co-head of Warner Bros. Discovery’s rebranded, soon to be massively restructured, DC Studios, made a statement on social media today, responding to a story originally reported by yesterday . That story claimed that one of the casualties of Gunn and Peter Safran’s new take on DC Comics films (which the pair are said to be still fleshing out before presenting to top executives) was Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3, for which Jenkins recently wrote one treatment, which Gunn and Safran, according to the story, turned down because they said it didn’t fit with their still-evolving plans for the franchise.
Gunn didn’t go into specifics with his response statement, but said that in relation to the THR story, “Some of it is true, some of it is semi-true, some of it isn’t true, and some of it we’re undecided about.” Whether it’s true or not.” Calling the planning phase so far “fruitful,” Gunn went on to admit that he and Safran knew from the start that there would be “an inevitable transition period as we moved into making a coherent story on film , television, animation and games to tell.”
There are some pretty massive questions floating around at DC Studios at the moment, most of them centered on how much of the existing framework was the DCEU stories – which started in 2013 with Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel before attempting to expand into a Marvel -similar shared universe to be expanded in the following decade – will be maintained in transition. Gunn today declared his commitment to “build on what has worked in DC so far and help correct what hasn’t worked… We know we won’t make every single person happy at every turn, but we do.” can promise that everything we do is done in the service of the STORY & in the service of the DC CHARACTERS that we know you appreciate & have treasured our entire lives.
Gunn ended his post with a call for patience while he and Safran continue to plan, followed by an Alex Ross painting of DC’s Justice League that certainly suggests that the comics’ most iconic characters — if not the actors or the continuity that we’ve had so far in Warner Bros. filmography — will remain in place as he and Safran chart their new course.