James Gunn & WB cancel Wonder Woman sequel

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Wonder Woman 3 is reportedly no longer happening, now that DC Studios is moving in a different direction under the leadership of James Gunn and Peter Safran. https://t.co/SNF32ie5ua pic.twitter.com/25A4vwXgcs
- IGN (@IGN) December 8, 2022
-The breakout character in the DC movieverse will not be back for a third film

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[fuckinmagnets]

Please stop

[zibbydoo324]

Sounds like no one is safe.
The report states that DC's new plan could be to close down the Snyderverse and shut down Man of Steel 2 starring Henry Cavill, as well as end Aquaman movies starring Jason Momoa. Both characters are set to cameo in the upcoming Flash movie.

[fauxkaren]

the upcoming Flash movie.

oh yeah

that's still happening.

[siaht]

So that's safe!

[pa0r_ple]

I keep forgetting and am surprised every time I'm reminded

[fauxkaren]

Please, someone, just put the DCEU out of its misery so it can be reincarnated as a not terrible version of itself.

[slaygalthessily]

Isn’t that technically what this would be. Like they’re pulling the plug on everything but Shazam at this point…

[aristobrit]

That looks like what they're doing.

[naeara]

Hmm this is really surprising to me. How do you move forward without Wonder Woman? I know WW84 was awful and Gal is terrible but both movies still did well (the first WW is the best DC movie so far for me) and Diana's a beloved character.

Or are they going to do a recast and go in a different direction because I wouldn't be sad to see GG go.

ETA: Read the article and they do say it's dead in its current form so I guess there is still the possibility of Gal as WW in another capacity or if they completely redo the script to fit with their "vision". I would still like to see a recast or something else.

[odetothefool]

of course the movie wasn't a hit during covid?? lmao
no movie was a hit we were in a damn pandemic and you can't trust strangers to keep their masks on in the dark

[littlepunkryo]

Multiple movies did just fine once theaters actually opened back up, Spider-Man made almost 2 billion dollars. BA was never gonna do those numbers but it's not even going to make its budget back, that's not good no matter how you slice it.

[aristobrit]

Spiderman isn't a good example. It literally had a fanbase that went back over 20 years and involved a dozen other films and connected franchises. Analysts are saying that the days of the billion box office are over and $700M is the new "very successful" target.

BA was never gonna do better than it did but it made not end up in the red. Deadline says it's making a profit. They disagree with Variety.

[littlepunkryo]

I literally said it was never gonna do those numbers, but there have been plenty of even non-superhero movies that did just fine even during the pandemic. BA might have turned a profit if its budget wasn't that big but even if it had a lower budget it didn't blow anything out of the water. Deadline's article is full shill ($86mil of the supposed "profit" was WB paying itself for BA going to HBOMax) and even included a sentence about how Black Adam 2 and a Hawkeye spinoff were in the works that vanished after the THR article went up.