{"id":660413,"date":"2026-10-29T07:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660413\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:26:08","slug":"james-gunn-calls-batman-superman-wonder-woman-dcs-diamond-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660413\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Calls Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman DC’s ‘Diamond Characters’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJames Gunn<\/a> has once again taken to Threads<\/a> in defense of his DC universe, and this time, is clarifying his previously proposed eight- to 10-year roadmap for the fictional world and making it clearer where each character stands within it. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou can look at my quotes from January \u201923 when we started and I said we were going to do exactly what we\u2019re doing,\u201d the DC Studios co-head wrote responding to a now-deleted post. \u201cI said some stories would be standalone like the Guardians movies were (which is what Clayface is) and some stories would have part of a larger narrative structure, which is what the Superman<\/a> Saga is. All that said, each piece of the larger story should work on its own with or without having to see everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued in a second post: \u201cALSO, some things get conflated here. The often cited \u20188 to 10 year roadmap\u2019 originally pitched wasn\u2019t only story points (although that was a part of it), but also the plan for DC as a whole, including focusing on diamond characters (Superman, Batman<\/a>, WW) as well as smaller characters we could turn into diamonds (Krypto, John Stewart, Peacemaker), how we would foster filmmaker freedom & allow for multiple tones & ratings, the influences of Star Wars & George RR Martin, and so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGunn\u2019s note about the \u201c8 to 10 year roadmap\u201d refers to his and fellow co-head Peter Safran\u2019s 2022 remarks during a virtual Warner Bros. Discovery town hall, during which he\u2019d said they\u2019d mapped out an 8- to ten-year plan for DC. In a third post, he added: \u201cIt\u2019s exciting seeing things START to come together and all that makes me even more excited for what we have in store for everyone in Man of Tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Saturday, Gunn took to <\/a>the social media platform to defend his decision <\/a>to expand the DC universe with \u201cindividual stories\u201d amid criticism that his films aren\u2019t building toward a major crossover event.<\/p>\n

\n\tResponding to a commenter who pointed out that Gunn doesn\u2019t necessarily need to lay the foundation for one totally interconnected universe, he wrote, \u201cI couldn\u2019t agree more.\u201d \u201cDCU is just an alternate universe; we can enter at any location or time and tell THAT story. I dislike the idea that individual stories aren\u2019t meaningful unless they lead to something else. People not understanding this is strange to me, because \u2018Star Wars\u2019 has essentially been doing this for 50 years across movies, shows, games and books, admittedly without the tonal variety,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tGunn\u2019s next film, \u201cSuperman: Man of Tomorrow<\/a>,\u201d hits theaters July 9, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn has once again taken to Threads in defense of his DC universe, and this time, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13303,146,85,46,12959,397,13818],"class_list":["post-660413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-batman","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-james-gunn","tag-movies","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}