Chapter 1 - Gods and Monsters | DC Studios | DC

hey everybody I'm James Gunn I'm the

co-ceo of DC Studios so as many of you

know DC has been disconnected in film

and television for a long time and it's

one of you know our jobs mine and Peters

is 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 and if

something is outside of that like Matt

Reeves Batman or Todd Phillips Joker or

Teen Titans Go that it is clearly

labeled as DC else worlds outside of the

mainstream DCU continuity now Peter and

I have gotten pretty lucky in terms of

the four projects that are coming out

over the next year first we have Shazam

Fury of the Gods Shazam has always been

off kind of in his own part of the DCU

so he connects very well that moves

directly into the flash a fantastic

movie that I really love that Reese sets

the entire DC Universe then to move into

Blue Beetle a fantastic film about a kid

who's a marvelous part of the DCU and

then into Aquaman 2 which leads directly

into our next few projects which I'm

going to tell you about now so Peter and

I along with a group of very talented

writers have started to map out an eight

to ten year plan of what DC Studios will

be in film television and gaming this

first chapter is called Gods and

Monsters now this what I'm about to tell

you is a part of the first chapter it's

not the entire first chapter

first project is Creature Commandos

Creature Commandos is an animated series

I've written all the episodes something

we're going to do that's a little bit

different at DC is we're going to have

characters move into animation out of

Animation usually having the same actor

play their voice as who plays them in

live action the next project up is

Waller this is a story of Amanda Waller

who played by Viola Davis Viola Davis is

going to team up with members of Team

Peacemaker and this is a story that's

been created by Crystal Henry who did

Watchman and Jeremy Carver who created

the Doom Patrol it is a fantastic story

that's out of this world and I can't

wait for people to see it okay next up

is the big one the true beginning of the

DCU this is called Superman Legacy this

is being written by me I'm in the middle

of it I'm having a great time doing it

and Superman will be released into

theaters July 11 2025. okay the next

thing is a big Premiere HBO television

series series called lanterns this is a

story of a couple of Green Lanterns Jon

Stewart and Hal Jordan and we have a few

other lanterns peppered in there but

this is really a terrestrial based TV

show which is almost like True Detective

with a couple of Green Lanterns who are

space cops watching over Precinct Earth

in it they discover a terrifying mystery

that ties into our largest story of the

DCU next is a big movie called The

Authority The Authority is a passion

project of mine it's based on The

Marvelous wildstorm characters we are

now bringing into the DCU and will

interact with all of our primary DCU

characters The Authority are a group of

superheroes who think the world is

broken and they want to fix it by any

means necessary I think it's a very

different look at superheroes we're

doing a television series called

Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is a story

of Paradise Island usually known as

themescara which is the birthplace of

Wonder Woman it's almost like Game of

Thrones with Westeros but with all of

the inhabitants of Paradise Island the

introduction of the dcu's Batman is the

Brave and the Bold the Brave and the

Bold is the story of Batman and his

actual son Damien Wayne this is based on

Grant Morrison's great comic book run

Damien Wayne is my favorite Robin he's a

little assassin who Batman tries to get

in line and so this is the story of the

two of them and the beginning of sort of

the bat family in the DCU next up is a

TV series called Booster Gold Booster

Gold is one of comic's really popular

cult Heroes he is a fascinating guy he's

a loser from the future who uses future

technology to come back to present day

and become a superhero so that people

will love him it is basically the

superhero story of imposter syndrome on

an HBO Max series one of my favorite

comic book series from last year was Tom

King's run on Supergirl woman of

tomorrow and so we're going to turn that

into a big science fiction Epic film now

Superman is a guy who was sent to Earth

and raised by loving parents we're a

Supergirl in this story she is a

character who was raised on a chunk of

Krypton she watched everybody around her

perish in some terrible way so she's a

much more jaded character and that

brings me to Swamp Thing the last thing

we're going to talk about a very dark

Horror Story in the origins of the

monster who is Swamp Thing and although

it's totally outside of the rest of the

DCU it will still feed into the rest of

the stories anyway those are the stories

that I can tell you about right now I've

loved the DC characters since I was a

child they're incredibly important to me

I knew that this was a once in a

lifetime opportunity to do something

very different 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 and something special

storytelling is always king that's all

that matters to us and I want to be true

to those stories I want to be true to

you guys and really give you something

different than you've ever seen before

anyway thank you everybody I appreciate

you watching I hope this was exciting

for you because it's really exciting for

me and I can't wait to start to dive

into these stories with you guys on this

Grand Adventure thank you so much