With the debut of Creature Commandos this week, DC Studios wants fans to know that each project will be unique to the heroes and villains. With the slate of titles comprising the new era of Warner Bros. superhero franchise house, studio boss and director James Gunn does not want people to believe that projects will be limited to his well-known filmmaking style.
In an interview with Variety, Gunn stated that Creature Commandos is only a taste of what is to come. “I just liked the idea of a soft intro to our universe in which metahumans exist, monsters exist, magic exists, and incredibly complicated political situations exist,” he said. “And we see what the world of the DCU is through an animated perspective where it costs as much to create a battlefield as it does to create a kitchen—well, not exactly, but not as dissimilar as it would be in a film.”
However, the dishes DC Studios prepares are not on a set menu. “One of the main things I want to establish is that you can do anything at DC Studios,” Gunn said, “We can make complete family fare. We can make something that’s for general audiences, like Superman. We can make something that’s violent and sexual, like this—which I didn’t think was that violent and sexual; Peacemaker is both more violent and more sexual—but I want every project to have its own voice. It isn’t about creating a world in which everything is all sex and violence. It’s about creating a world in which we can tell the story about, you know, one type of character in different genres.”
What DC Studios is preparing is not a set menu, but it will be intriguing to see how the franchise feast comes out after more creatives enter the kitchen at DC Studios. For the time being, we’ll see how the violence and sex in Creature Commandos and Peacemaker translate into Gunn’s probable more family-friendly Superman, Lanterns, and Dynamic Duo projects.
I’m pretty thrilled about the new era of the DCU. His views on its philosophical underpinnings are exactly what I’m looking for.
Creature Commandos debuts this week on Max.
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(Via Variety)
