DCEU Reboot?! WB’s Reset Explained & Your Questions Answered
During Warner Bros. Discovery’s earning call on Thursday, August 5, more information regarding the DCEU’s future was revealed. Following an underwhelming panel at San Diego Comic-Con and the shocking cancellation of Batgirl, the future of the DCEU and of the DC films as a whole was put in check. The unprecedented move of shelving a nearly completed 90-million superhero film indicated that significant changes would happen, which now Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav confirms to be the case.
The DCEU technically started with Zack Snyder’sMan of Steel, although it was only during Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, also directed by Snyder, that Warner Bros. really decided to go for the shared-universe approach. Batman v Superman was supposed to set up the Justice League, but the movie’s mixed reception was the start of a series of highs and lows from which the DCEU never managed to escape. After the Justice League controversy, the Snyder Cut, and The Flash’s potential reboot of the main DCEU timeline, anything seemed possible for where the DCEU could go.
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In the meantime, Discovery acquired AT&T’s WarnerMedia, creating Warner Bros. Discovery. The merge would obviously lead to significant changes in the structure of the studio, and by default, in the plans for every Warner Bros. franchise. This was no different for the DC movies, with the Batgirl cancellation being the first indicator of what WBD’s plans for the DCEU are.
During the Warner Bros. Discovery earning call, CEO David Zaslav mentioned the word “reset” – but that was not directly related to a complete DCEU reboot but rather to a change in how the IP is dealt with. Zaslav highlighted
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