James Gunn’s DCU Has a Clear Rule to Avoid Shared Movie Universe Mistakes

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and speak with DC Studios head James Gunn. During that conversation the subject of building a shared universe was a main topic of focus; Gunn made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that the DCU has learned from mistakes of the past, and will be avoiding one staple of the Marvel Cinematic Universe or former DC Extended Universe: the use of extraneous “button” scenes to set up the next chapters of the franchise.

In his longer breakdown of his approach, Gunn talked about the economy of a movie’s screentime and the need for “every beat” to be servicing the movie at hand – not selling fans on new projects coming down the pike.

“If that works in tandem with setting up characters that exist in other media, then that’s great. If this sets up stuff in “Peacemaker,” which it does, then that’s great. But that is never, ever, ever, with me, going to be something that I’m going to sacrifice even a moment or a beat in a story for, especially a movie. With TV, you’ve got a little bit more leniency to be able to do that. But in a movie, every beat has to be in there for the movie itself.

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