Much has become a bummer to many DC fans after GOTG director James Gunn cancelled many DCEU films fans were looking forward to seeing and it has really struck the hearts of many comic book superhero fans big time. Clearly, this isn't first time such provocative moves at a blockbuster movie studio have been made by executives. The first time I experienced something similar to this was Iron Man 3 when Marvel Studios thought they could get away with ripping off fans with cheap theatrical techniques similar to the Dark Knight trilogy and it didn't work out very well then.
Over the years since 2016, much has gotten out of hand since director Zack Snyder's daughter Autumn mysteriously died. DC Studios and Warner Bros (now Warner Bros Discovery) have been undergoing shakeups that have led to numerous scandals, mismanagement, a toxic work environment, misguidance, people getting their hopes up, movies and tv shows being axed, incapability to plot interesting stories, etc. After Snyder left DC in the wake of his loss, Walter Hamata took over and things got out of hand. Cyborg actor Ray Fisher was fired for getting into a fight with Joss Whedon over the director's alleged misconducts, Ezra Miller has been having mental breakdowns where he strangled a girl, got involved in such disgusting groups of people who have been accused of physical and socially abusive activities, broke into a neighbor's house to steal a beer and plead guilty for it.
Then, you have Ben Affleck pulling out of the role of Batman, WBD CEO David Zaslov pulling the plug on Leslie Grace's Batgirl movie, and then soon as James Gunn came in as co-head of DC Studios that two months later after Henry Cavill made his return to the DCEU as Superman in Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam movie, Gunn ruins everything by cancelling Man of Steel 2 stating it was all because Black Adam didn't gross enough money at the box office when many of the fans furious over the shake up believe that the executives at WBD and DC Studios are being plain rotten and selfish like they've got some personal issues against Henry Cavill and his portrayal of Superman.
In response to this heartbreaking decision, fans have been calling for Gunn and others to resign for cancelling the Snyderverse and have been running social media campaigns to pressure DC Studios and Warner Bros. to sell the rights of Zack Snyder's DCEU over to Netflix so that Snyder himself can continue and finish where he left off in the DC cinematic franchise. Why would fans want this and not let the Snyderverse go to waste? Well, I've been doing some research and I've discovered that there is more to what's been going on at Warner Bros over the past 4 decades I'll be glad to explain the following.
1. The problem with people who run and work at Warner Bros goes back to the early 1980's, back when the studio was getting to work on developing the third Superman movie which starred the late Christopher Reeves as the Man of Steel himself. It was from there that when it came to looking for who in the comics would Superman face off against that from all the comics fans read and cherrish that Brainiac would be the next villain after General Zod, but then came the part where writers and studio executives got lazy and selfish that they decided to turn down the villain and Supergirl and decided to swindle the fans with some made up villain and said it was because of the lack of budgeting.
2. The issue began to develop even more when Warner Bros had been working on more projects featuring movies where Superman would go head-to-head with villains like Parasite, Doomsday, Silver Banshee, Eradicator, and another effort to try to bring Brainiac onto the big screen regarding movies like Superman Lives, Superman Reborn, Superman: The Man of Steel, Superman: Destruction, etc. Sadly, however, each of the projects fell short.
3. In 2006 when Superman Returns was released into theaters, many who were developing the movie claimed that they have broken the "Superman Curse", many fans were skeptical on why Warner Bros chose Lex Luthor as the villain for the movie and not anyone else that hasn't appeared on the big screen. Then the same came again when Zack Snyder announced that the villain for his Superman movie was General Zod, a villain that fans have already seen in the 1980 Superman film stating his reason was all just to make sure "the villain was appropriate enough". Clearly, he could have just chosen someone else rather than repeating with the same character.
4. Now, as Batman vs Superman made its way into theaters in March 2016, not only were fans thrilled to have live action big screen movie where DC superheroes finally come together, but also more officially had broken a decades' long curse by bringing the monstrous villain Doomsday onto the stage as the villain for Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman to fight in the film's climax. Then came Snyder and Whedon's Justice League movies where finally got to see more villains from the comics like Steppenwolf, Granny Goodness, Parademons, Dessad and Darkseid for the first time in live action entertainment. As well as having Superman unleash the full potential of his abilities.
5. Too many executives who were corrupt with too much greed, too much arrogance and too much neglect on advice on how to do things that made them hold their staff back from delivering to the public what superhero movie fans want.
In between and after the release of both Whedon and Snyder's versions of the film, I'm sure some of you reading this article already know what's been happening from behind the scenes. But also, from all the denials and delays of Superman movies and villains who are yet to still appear on the big screens, I'm beginning to understand why cancelling Henry Cavill's Man of Steel 2 movie and the rest of the Snyderverse got many DC comic fans so angry and worked up on setting up pressure campaigns for James Gunn and Peter Safran to resign and get WBD and DC Studios to either retract their decision or sell the rights of the Snyderverse to Netflix for Zack Snyder to continue where he left off which sadly, especially when Gunn is planning to rip us off with more of the same villains like Lex Luther which we already have seen when he hinted at basing his reboot on All Star Superman which involves Lex Luther being the overall antagonist and some folks need to think before they get excited over what he has because really? Aren't you guys getting tired of the same villains being used over and over again after 40 years of this behavior we've seen out of WBD and DC Studios network executives that enough is enough?
So far from what I can tell, a restore the snyderverse campaign certainly isn't going to work since something about Henry Cavill's Superman has been bothering them and we should be asking the following:
Was Cavill too perfect as Superman?
Was all the potential in Superman's fight against evil too intense for studio executives, shareholders and all critics to handle?
Do they have a problem with villains like Brainiac and others in the comics?
Was Snyder's universe empowering DC Comic fans too much that it could in the future affect future plans for another separate universe if his was 100% complete?
Was there something about Henry Cavill you didn't like?
If not, then what was it that made you, James Gunn, cancel Man of Steel 2 last year on everybody?
Well, to those who are currently campaigning for younger actors like Jacob Eldori to be cast as Superman for James Gunn's reboot, they're on the right track. In fact, we should all be using our time to lobby DC Studios and Warner Brothers Discovery into including specific characters we haven't seen on the big screens before over the last 40 years and who we should campaign on getting Gunn and his crew to cast for these certain roles so that he's not purposefully wasting our time with more of the same trash we keep getting like Lex Luthor and General Zod. We certainly have had enough of them for a life time and they don't have to reintroduce Doomsday either.
He can go ahead with some of the traits and costume designs he has in store for his Superman, but he needs to redo the script for his reboot, hold off on his All Star Superman plan for a potential sequel and focus on using storylines regarding other villains like Brainiac because he is who most comic fans want to see Superman fight on the big screen the most. Especially the one where Brainiac was harvesting planets for their cities and destroying them with nothing but space rubble and both Superman and Supergirl took him on and while Supergirl rushed to stop one of Brainiac's missiles from destroying the sun and- wait. THAT'S IT!
Since All Star Superman featured the sun as one of the most piviotal plot devices in the storyline and when Brainiac tried to blow up the Earth's sun in the comics with a missile that Supergirl thwarted in time and in the end of the All Star storyline, Superman flew inside the Earth's Sun to repair it and if anyone read what comics Zack Snyder used to create the plot for Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, maybe there is a way that both the fans and James Gunn can get what they want out of this reboot he's writing and guarantee that there will be no more tricks and deception like last time!
So, take a look at the fan cast I have below and why it would be a huge lifesaver to pressure DC Studios, Warner Bros Discovery and their shareholders into featuring in James Gunn's Superman Reboot.
Jacob Elordi as Superman
Brec Bassinger as Supergirl
Daniel Craig as Brainiac
Maude Apatow or Lily Collins for Lois Lane
Corey Stoll as Lex Luther (smaller role or cameo)
Daisy Ridley or Rebecca Hall as Silver Banshee
Jason Momoa as Lobo
Now here are some additional cast and characters for Gunn to include in his movies
Alfred Molina as Perry White
Aaron Taylor Johnson as Steve Lombard
Isaiah Mustafa as Ronald Troupe
Laura Haddock as Alura Zor-el
Jude Law as Zor-el
Jullianne Moore as Martha Kent
Sean Penn as Johnathan Kent
Boyd Holbrook as John Corbin
Look, some of you may not care about what James Gunn and DC Studios has to offer with their ten year plan but after 40 years of dilemma of big screen appearances for other Superman characters from the comics like Brainiac and how lousy management with other DC Studios movies have been except for Batman, some of us are not going to sit back and doing nothing while the elites running the entertainment industry keep ripping us off with the same characters in every Superman film. Zack Snyder was so far the only one that has successfully broken through the barriers that have made it difficult for us to see more villains from the comics and if WBD and DC Studios don't sell the rights of the Snyderverse to Netflix, then it's time we fight back against their status quo bias by building up this pressure campaign on getting Gunn to deliver us a Superman movie with Brainiac with the following
#jacobelordisuperman
#Brainiacnow
#Jamesgunnbrainiacnow
#Brainiacnowlexluthorlater
#supermanbrainiacmovienow
#Supermanbrainiac
#allstRsupermanbrainiac
#Danielcraigbrainiac
#Givebrainiacachance
#Enoughlexluthorisenough
#Enoughlexluthor
And here are other examples of hashtags to use for help persuade the studio executives into using in the movie
#Dcusupergirlnow
#Brecbassingersupergirl
#Dcusilverbansheenow
#Daisyridleysilverbanshee
#Supergirlandsilverbanshee
#Supergirlvssilverbanshee
#Givesilverbansheeandsupergirlachance
#Givesupergirlachance
#Givesilverbansheeachance
#Rebeccahallsilverbanshee
#Havesupergirljoinsuperman
Now, as for why Gunn should also include characters like Supergirl and Silver Banshee in his movie is because fans would also love to see a live action Superman movie with Supergirl in it and because WBD has also repeatedly scrapped plans for various Supergirl movie projects and with Gunn promising a non-origin based Superman reboot, adding Supergirl to the mix would help support his plan and now for why he should also include additional villains like Silver Banshee.
When Silver Banshee was confirmed to appear in the Supergirl TV series 7 years ago, I saw how much potential a female super villain like her yielded when I saw a picture of her having ripped off a piece of fabric from Supergirl's cape which showed just how much of a grudge she must hold against the cousins of steel.
From the comics that featured those pics of her and Supergirl fuming at one another, I've discovered something significant and emotionally dramatic that DC Movie and Television producers, writers, directors, and show runners completely overlooked regarding her backstory, how much trauma the character had undergone before running into Supergirl during their first confrontation in 1997. How she is a villainess who never wanted to be the villainess she is and has suffered a lot. This makes her one of Superman and Supergirl's most tragic enemies and because she and Supergirl were the best of friends in the New 52 era, I would love to see how she would play out on the big screen with her having an average and decent role as one of the villains for this reboot too.
Now as for Jason Momoa, I'd love to see him portray a perfect version of Lobo in Gunn's new DCU despite the disappointment that I myself and other hardcore comic fans have to bare over the coming years because I've seen his Aquaman in the movies and witness how much humor was on display, I'm sure he'd do great as Lobo and even more so for Gunn's Superman reboot as a secondary villain that captures the Man of Steel, brings him to Brainiac and then gets double crossed by Superman's arch enemy by being locked up and much like what I've seen from the 90's animated Superman cartoon, he would beg Superman to free him and when the Kryptonian continues to ignore him, Lobo complains and threatens to blow up the Earth if he ever does escape by himself which nudges Superman into freeing him and getting him back to Earth.
Look, some may not care of my idea of a solution to the problem we're facing at DC Studios and Warner Bros and may not care about what James Gunn has in mind, but after what we've seen in previous Superman movies and from all the setbacks that held them back from doing movies with different enemies of the Man of Steel, some of us would like see more on the big screen and not have to wait another 40 years until the companies have sorted out everything. Plus, if the reason Gunn posted that tweet of his reading the All Star Superman was meant to show he is looking to use certain elements from certain storylines and how to depict Superman in his movies and not really base it on the actual comic his reading, then let's hope so. No one wants a Lex Luthor repeat and rather than calling for his resignation or doing anything foolish, we should start this pressure or this DC Character and storyplot request campaign using the following hashtags regarding what some of us would love to see in this movie he's writing the script to.
Also, some say he's planning to make his DCU just like the MCU, but we don't know how or what he would use to do it. Hopefully it would just involve plot elements and not literally the plot of every MCU movie done so far.
Believe me, I want to see characters like Brainiac, Supergirl and Silver Banshee in this movie and see how well Jason Momoa can pull it off as Lobo and I swear, I'd flip if he reuses Lex Luthor or General Zod as the villain for his project and believe me, enough with the same old same old is enough because if any of these two or some made up villains were utilized, I wouldn't watch Gunn's movie one bit.
It's time we made sure that he is on the right track by submitting the following hashtags to James Gunn, Peter Safron, David Zaslov and to all the CEO's of their company's top shareholders listed in this image below!
If all of this were to succeed, would it break the decades' long "Superman Curse"? I can't say for sure, but there's always ways to find out. Besides, this happens when you're in an environment where you often find yourselves fully unprepared for anything that is about to happen.
So if you don't trust Gunn and are not interested in participating in this campaign for Brainiac and other characters to make their big screen debut in his Superman reboot, that's fine, but those of you who seem pleased with him running the company and would love for him to feature Brainiac and the other three characters I've presented in this article, then we better get to it and submit these hashtags on Twitter, Facebook and every social media platform where we can reach these individuals to hear us out for advice on going with these suggestions! So let's get to it!
Heck, feel free to get out and protest against WBD DC Studios and their shareholders to prove how serious we are about the matter at hand and I don't care if they ignore us if we get their attention or if it's because they have people who come up with these ideas on what characters and story ideas to include because if there are millions of angry Snyderverse fans out there who got their attention, we can get their attention too if we all can start this movement on bringing Brainiac and other overlooked Superman comicbook characters onto the big screen!
The reason the movies in the DCEU kept on failing is because of how recklessly corrupt leadership in both Warner Bros and DC Studios is for choosing to do things desparately to compete with Marvel and Disney and all this ignorance they have towards fans with advice on what they should include only makes their movies suck more and more.
That is why we need to put an end to this ridiculous habit the studios have and start having our own voices heard on what DC and WBD should do if they want a more successful franchise and even more so if these executives can also follow James Cameron's formula on Avatar's success with CGI by not rushing things. Take their time, raise enough money, have a more organized work environment, different characters for people to see with Superman on the big screen for this movie and for god sake, have more patience with developing this movie. No reason to rush things just to catch up with a rival company because that overall is what's destroying DC superhero movies. Oh, and if both studios are smart, they must not cast the GOTG cast members for any of the main roles in each of these new DCU films they're developing because not only is it making fans upset, but it shows just how poor their quality of making superhero movies really is.
