DC Studios Reveal New Projects: Will They Uphold Moral Values?
By Movieguide® Contributor
DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran revealed their newest slate of upcoming DC movies and television features after the pair took over the studio last October.
“One of our strategies is to take our diamond characters—which is Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman—and we use them to prop up other characters that people don’t know,” explained Gunn.
Safran added that this plan will “build those lesser known properties into the diamond properties of tomorrow.”
The upcoming productions will feature movies and TV series, both live action and animated, as well as ventures into gaming.
Among the rise of lesser-known DC figures, mainstays like Superman and Batman will return to the big screen.
Gunn shared some insights into the next movie featuring the Man of Steel, tentatively to release in July 2025.
“It’s not an origin story,” Safran said. “It focuses on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing. He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way. He is kindness in a world that thinks that kindness is old-fashioned.”
Movieguide® previously celebrated MAN OF STEEL for its “very strong Christian, redemptive and moral worldview” [which] “extols many positive values, including faith, trust, hope, being a good role model, protecting the innocent, saving lives, sacrifice, and doing the right thing despite personal cost.”
However, other slated projects will feature a “ruthless and morally ambiguous” character, Batman’s son who is “a murderous tween raised by assassins” and a horror film, among other non-family-friendly content.
“One of the things of the DCU is that it’s not just a story of heroes and villains,” explained Gunn. “Not every film and TV show is going to be about good guy versus bad guy, giant things from the sky come and good guy wins.”
However, as Movieguide® previously reported, DC movies that rely “on excessive foul language and gratuitous violence” like THE SUICIDE SQUAD do not perform as well at the box office compared to other features like MAN OF STEEL.
For this new slate of DC content to succeed, the DC Studios should remain focused on “moral, uplifting, and positive content” which outperforms “immoral, R-rated movies at the box office,” as Movieguide® has previously reported.
Movieguide® previously reported on the upcoming DC stories:
Co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn recently revealed his plans for the next 10 years for superhero movies based on DC comics.
“Storytelling is always king. That’s all that matters to us,” he shared. “So as many of you know, DC has been disconnected in film and television for a long time. And it’s one of our jobs, mine and Peter’s [Safran, co-CEO of DC Studios], to come in and make sure the DCU is connected in film, television, gaming, and animation that the characters are consistent, played by the same actors and it works within one story.”
Gunn explained that upcoming projects will be labeled as either part of the DCEU or DC Elseworlds. The Elseworlds projects include movies and shows that take place outside of the mainstream continuity timeline of other DC projects.
So, what can DC fans expect from the studio for the next 10 years?
Upcoming movies include SUPERMAN: LEGACY, SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW, THE SWAMP THING, and THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, a Batman and Robin project.
DC TV shows in the works include projects focused on SUICIDE SQUAD character Amanda Waller (WALLER and CREATURE COMMANDOS), BOOSTER GOLD, and PARADISE LOST, which focuses on Wonder Woman’s home of Themyscira.
Fans also have plenty of DC movies to look forward to in 2023, like THE FLASH, SHAZAM: FURY OF THE GODS, and AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM.
“One of the things that’s very important for me in all of these movies and TV series is that the director’s vision and the vision of the writers and all of the creators is unique,” Gunn concluded.
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