Company WarnerMedia made a decision to cancel two projects at once from cinematic universe dc… This was reported by the edition The hollywood reporter…
The first canceled project was the film James Wang “Hollow“(The trench). It’s about a spin-off “Aquaman“(Aquaman), which is dedicated to the Fallen – the feral representatives of the aquatic people who live in the Hollow.
As Wang himself said, he planned to make a horror movie (the director specializes in them), weakly associated with superheroics. The premiere should have taken place before the release “Aquaman 2 “… But now we are already in the spring of 2023, the shooting of the sequel “Aquaman” will start in the summer, and nothing has been heard about “Hollow”.
According to insiders, horror simply did not find a place in the release schedule for the next few years, and Wang is now already heavily loaded. However, the idea can be returned if the audience wants more stories about Atlantis.
But with the movie “New gods“(New gods) everything is much more complicated. The director of the disaster was attached to the project. “A wrinkle in time” Ava DuVernay and screenwriter Tom King…
The tape is based on the comics of the legendary writer and artist Jack Kirby about “Fourth world“. The main characters were the inhabitants of the planets New Genesis and Apokolips, which were formed as a result of Ragnarok.
According to Deadline, The New Gods were abandoned, as WarnerMedia was unhappy with the script, which did not resemble a feature film in structure. But there is another reason why hinted disappointed with DuVernay.
“Tom, I loved writing” New Gods with you. ” I’m upset that the saga of Bard, Scott, Grandma, Elder Father and Furies ends like this. Diving into Kirby’s Fourth World has been an adventure of my life. It cannot be taken away. Thanks for friendship. And remember … #DarkseidIs“, – the director wrote in Twitter…
You see, the story of the “New Gods” cannot be imagined without the appearance of one of the main villains of DC comics – the lord of Apokolips. Darkseid… However, the landscape has changed over the past few years.
The DuVernay project began to be developed about four years ago, when it only existed “Justice League“(Justice league) Joss Whedon… In the film, the main threat was Steppenwolf – one of the New Gods and a representative of Apokolips. All references to Darkseid have been removed from the plot, even the 3D model of Steppenwolf has changed.
However, in March 2023, HBO Max was released “Justice League Zach Snyder“(Zack Snyder’s Justice League), in which Steppenwolf is only a minor threat. The main villain is Darkseid, who was supposed to launch an attack on Earth in “Justice League 2“(Justice league united). Zack Snyder himself said that he planned to fully represent the New Gods in the film “Justice League 3“.
It has been repeatedly noted that top executives at Warner Bros. hate Zach Snyder’s Justice League, which is a reminder of their incompetence. Recently head Warner Media Studios Ann Sarnoff stated that SnyderCut not will receive sequels, she also accused fans of the project of “toxicity”. And the portal Small Screen reported that in the new film about The Flash, it is planned to completely erase Zach Snyder’s cinematic universe from the canon (SnyderVerse).
However, the release of the new version of the “Justice League” was insisted on by the authorities from AT&Tso it should come as no surprise that plans for the DC Cinematic Universe had to change. The premiere of New Gods was only a few years later, and audiences would inevitably start comparing the two versions of Darkseid. This is confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter.
“There was a desire to preserve space between the latter and any new appearances of Darkseid,” the journalists write.
The odd thing is that the existence of several Batman, Superman and Flash in films and TV shows before this did not interfere with Warner Media. What happened?
According to the editor-in-chief Geekosity Mikey Sutton, work on “New Gods” was curtailed by order AT&T… The CEO of WarnerMedia also gave his consent. Jason Kilar…
Now inside the film company there is a fierce struggle for Zack Snyder and his vision of the DC MCU. SnyderVerse is backed by Jason Kilar, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, AT&T management and HBO Max… And Ann Sarnoff and the head DC Films Walter Hamada are promoting a new strategy in which the director did not find a place.
The success of SnyderCut caught WarnerMedia’s top executives by surprise, as they did not believe in the “gamble.” According to Small Screen, HBO Max and Netflix…
“They now left Snyder the opportunity to continue Darkseid’s story without forcing other filmmakers to wait for an answer, which could take months,” Sutton’s source added.
The cancellation of “Hollow” and “New Gods” is the defeat of Walter Hamada. However, we cannot yet say that the #RestoreTheSnyderVerse movement has won, because the mood in WarnerMedia is constantly changing.
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