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DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

It was already established in The Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earth's that the DCEU was another universe in it's multiverse, so if the DCU is a rewritten DCEU then I would assume that would still be the case.
 
It was already established in The Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earth's that the DCEU was another universe in it's multiverse, so if the DCU is a rewritten DCEU then I would assume that would still be the case.

which i guess means oliver queen aka green arrow aka spector from the arrowverse did create the dc universe aka the dc verison of the gunnverse when spector recreated the dc multiverse
 
Oh, they did use the Williams theme? I was assuming they stuck with Hans Zimmer's theme throughout. Anyway, my point was only about the specific issue of musical themes being reused, and not intended to apply to any other topic.

I forgot about that too. And I know recall that in the Whedon version, we hear Danny Elfman's Batman theme for a few seconds when Batman shows up at the Batsignal.
 
So Stephanie Economou (who did the score) said on her Instagram that Episode 5 was originally shot as Episode 7.

We know there is a Hal Centric episode — maybe that was originally 5 or even 4?
 
It was already established in The Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earth's that the DCEU was another universe in it's multiverse, so if the DCU is a rewritten DCEU then I would assume that would still be the case.

By Arrowverse-Crisis rules, if it were a rewritten history of the same universe, its individuals would still look the same, just have different memories. It would have to be a separate Earth that just happened to have certain individuals and events in common, like how Superman & Lois's Earth and Earth-Prime had identical Clark, Lois, and Diggle, but very different versions of Sam Lane, Maxwell Lord, Lex Luthor, etc. Or, as I mentioned, like how Young Justice's Earth-16 includes some of the same individuals and events as Green Lantern: The Animated Series, but is otherwise a distinct reality.
 
Another new Clayface poster:
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I gotta say, after the Supergirl posters were rather lazy and uninspired, all the Clayface posters thus far have been fantastic.


Meanwhile, Chairman/CEO for HBO and HBO Max Content Casey Bloys gave some perspective concerning the abandoned and/or put-on-ice projects at DC Studios during an interview at the Emmys

You know what I would say about that? It's the same thing with Game of Thrones. People read about development, and they assume that those are greenlit shows, and they're development. And everybody knows that development is just that – you're trying things, you take big swings, not everything comes through.
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I would say our track record in DC, from 'Watchmen' to 'Peacemaker' to 'Penguin' and now 'Lanterns,' is pretty good. We're very selective. We're careful about what we do; nothing has changed. You'll read about development, but focus on what we're greenlighting.

He also pointed out that aside from the Jimmy Olsen/Gorilla Grodd series, there was no DC Studios TV show in active development.

Source: Deadline (via Bleeding Cool)
 
By Arrowverse-Crisis rules, if it were a rewritten history of the same universe, its individuals would still look the same, just have different memories. It would have to be a separate Earth that just happened to have certain individuals and events in common, like how Superman & Lois's Earth and Earth-Prime had identical Clark, Lois, and Diggle, but very different versions of Sam Lane, Maxwell Lord, Lex Luthor, etc. Or, as I mentioned, like how Young Justice's Earth-16 includes some of the same individuals and events as Green Lantern: The Animated Series, but is otherwise a distinct reality.
Oh yeah you're right, I forgot that part of it.
 
I gotta say, after the Supergirl posters were rather lazy and uninspired, all the Clayface posters thus far have been fantastic.

That was kind of my opinion of the film. It was just kind of like somebody said at every stage, "this is good enough, let's move on" rather than caring enough to make it something special.
 
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No, you didn't, you responded to me. You even quoted my post in yours. :vulcan:

Oh, whoops, I confused two different conversational threads. Trying again:

All those franchises you cited started with a movie that was an original work not an adaptation, so later entries in he franchise referring back to that work and keeping it (mostly) in continuity while ignoring other things makes sense as it is the foundational work that started it all and was well received.

This isn't true for the DCEU in the slightest, it was adaptation #108 of DC Comics properties and as such not comparable.

That difference hardly matters. It's all made-up stories, so they can incorporate whatever elements they want. There's no "wrong" way to tell a completely imaginary story.

Also, you're mistaken. I cited the Psycho franchise, whose original movie was an adaptation of the Robert Bloch novel.

And Gunn kept his pet projects he personally worked on, that was pure ego.

Why? He's the person they chose to tell the stories going forward. It's not "ego" to use your own ideas when the whole job you've been hired to do is to contribute your own ideas. I mean, there are lots of cases of comics creators taking characters or story ideas they intended to do at Marvel and ending up doing them at DC instead, or vice-versa. Heck, I've incorporated a number of my unused original fiction ideas into my Star Trek novels. It's natural enough for writers to draw on our own past work. Ideas have to come from somewhere.
 
Yeah, I've always assumed that was why there ended up being so many similar characters at both Marvel & DC, because as the writers went back and forth, they went back to unused ideas from one publisher's characters for the other company's.
 
It's how Nightcrawler ended up in the X-Men instead of Legion of Superheroes.
As well as Storm and Colossus. Artist Dave Cockrum created the three for Legion membership when he was drawing that book, but DC didn't run with it. When Cockrum got the X-Men gig at Marvel, he took those characters with him. With modifications, of course. Storm originally had the power to turn into a cat, hence the shape of her eyes.
 
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