Love it or hate it, the DC Extended Universe was a novel creation within the historical past of Hollywood: An ongoing sequence of interconnected franchises overseen, at the least at its inception, not by an govt however a filmmaker: Zack Snyder, who launched the DCEU along with his Man of Steel in 2013, and wound up directing three movies within the franchise — 4 in case you rely his Zack Snyder’s Justice League director’s reduce individually.
Snyder left the DC Extended Universe after that, and now that the franchise has given approach to a brand new DC film and TV universe overseen by James Gunn and Peter Safran, it’s truthful to say that the DCEU by no means lived as much as its full potential. The highs had been excessive, however the lows had been low. (Who might have predicted a film referred to as Wonder Woman 1984 would prove feeling so dystopian?!?)
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As of this writing, there are nonetheless two DCEU films due in theaters within the months forward — Blue Beetle and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. But for all intents and functions, the DCEU formally concludes with The Flash, a film that was conceived as an in-story approach to reconfigure this cinematic universe into one thing new.
While we await Gunn to totally unveil his personal DC universe, let’s take inventory of all 14 DCEU films so far, which encompasses 10 completely different DC franchises and at least 4 sequels (5 as soon as Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom comes out). I’m undecided I might say I’ll miss this cinematic universe when it’s formally gone. But I’ll give it this a lot: Through all of the ups and downs, it was by no means boring.
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