Why James Gunn Is the Best News the DCEU Could Have Asked For

Lately, it’s felt like there’s been nothing but bad news coming out of DC’s movies and TV shows. The Batgirl movie has been canceled and thrown into a vault. The Arrowverse is all but dead. And we’re probably not going to get any of those JJ Abrams-produced DC shows we were promised.
But every streak of bad luck has to end eventually, and the winds are finally shifting in a better direction at Warner Bros. Discovery. Fresh off the opening weekend success of Black Adam, Warners has revealed that James Gunn and Peter Safran are heading up the reorganized DC Studios.
This is hardly the first time we’ve been promised that DC will become a Hollywood force to rival Marvel Studios, but with Gunn and producer Peter Safran steering the ship, we finally have reason to be optimistic. Let’s take a closer look at why this shakeup is exactly the sort of good news DC has been needing.

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