Batgirl and The Flash: The Bad Optics Of WB’s DC Strategy
Beyond the economic impact that reshuffling the DCEU was always going to have for the newly founded Warner Bros. Discovery, the recent decisions made by the company that affect their DC brands could be the first building for Marvel-like levels of success or simply just another catastrophe.
However, judging from the outright brashness shown in the cancellation of Batgirl and Supergirl, the conglomerate’s DC brand starts to look more and more like a hostile place for the people that worked on these films. Meanwhile, on the opposite end, Warner still has an ongoing PR nightmare thanks to Ezra Miller’s erratic behavior over the last two years, which also shows the studio lacking that same decisiveness when making other hard calls. What is exactly going on in the DC universe, and why are thing the way they are right now?
DC: Best Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy Comics & Stories
The MCU might get some shade thrown its way on how Marvel movies have become too formulaic, how scripts fail to seize on the individuality of most superheroes, or the apparent lack of a real plan throughout all of Phase Four. Yet for all its faults, Marvel Studios was making some high-risk bets in when Iron Man came out in 2008. Thor: Love and Thunder is far from the studio’s best movie, yet comparing the reception of this film, as well as the MCU’s worst revenue earners, reveals that executives were willing to accept less than stellar earnings. They knew it would all pay off big time when the big Avengers crossover manifested itself in movie theaters.
Perhaps it’s because DC has always been playing catch up to Marvel; nevertheless, Warner Bros. executives were never as patient with underwhelming productions as their rivals. Batman’s Ben Affleck and the Justice
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