Tea and cake. Brunch is served.
Four years ago, a red flag appeared at the dawn of what seemed like a breath of fresh air. Incoming DC Studios' big cheese, James Gunn decided to change the ending of The Flash to make it a standalone film that wouldn't serve as a lead to a big event film, comparable to Marvel Studios' efforts like Avengers: Infinity War and the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday.
This decision worked like a magic bullet. If all accounts are to be believed, regardless of the quality of the mortar used to make the bricks, we lost out on the following:
And, since the pieces were on the gameboard...anything featuring:
fakes his death - plus, he was cool).
So...I'm not in mourning that Gunn and Saffron are no longer in charge of spearheading new adaptations of DC Comics characters. I'm mourning what got kicked to the curb when they came in... and replaced them with plans... and these new plans resulted in projects that take later to make, putting them at risk, again, of being replaced by new plans, which will likely result in developing later...
We may not have been familiar with the concept of a chronobowl when it was depicted in The Flash, but that circling motion is what we're experiencing every time we read updates on new management these days...
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