The Reel Rejects - COY'S COMIC CORNER: HOLY CRAP! James Gunn Is Now DC's Kevin Feige! (NEW DCEU)

Starting point is 00:00:00 What is going on? Citizens of the Reject Nation, this is my favorite news out of DC since Christopher Olin's Batman trilogy. This is my favorite bit of DC news since I have started talking about comic books. This is DC getting their Kevin Feige's. This is the hierarchy of power changing as the rock promise. This is how DC builds a powerful platform and foundation and shared universe and TV and everything we want. This is James Gunn and Peter Safran becoming the heads of now DC Studios. That's right. It is no longer DC Films.

Starting point is 00:00:39 It is not quite the DCEU since it never really was. They changed that name a few times. DC Studios is now run by two Titans. Now, before we get into it, please do leave a like in this video. Leave a comment. Let me know what you think of this excellent, excellent news. My bias might be part of this journey. You'll know what I think of it.

Starting point is 00:00:57 And please do hunt me down on TikTok. I'm going to be reporting on this. As things develop, you get 15 second, 30 second, one minute long breakdowns of comic books and movie news. And this is the Zenith. I am so very excited. Let's get into it. Now let's kick it off with James Gunn. I am going to talk about Peter Safran in a second because I think that guy is being slept on as far as trending.

Starting point is 00:01:19 We'll get to him in a minute. But James Gunn, we have to acknowledge how insane this is. How many different butterfly effects had to occur for this very specific event. happen not only is he as a filmmaker one of the boldest filmmakers in the game he is always taking big broad swings and chances which is a great sign for what DC has to come not only is a big big big comic book fan in that he loves the most obscure character he can also make you love the most obscure character how excited are you for Cosmo after the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special how much do you love

Starting point is 00:01:48 King Shark how much is Rocket Raccoon part of your life these are not characters that are known he knows how to make the underdog work as well as the weird comic thing work he's also someone who's good at world building. Go back to 2008. You've got Iron Man starting and then you've got a bunch of superheroes that are not well known, but they're at least known. Then a couple years later, not that far in, you've got James Gunn doing Guardians of the Galaxy. Now, I'll totally own, I was one of the people that was worried. I was like, ooh, is this the first taste of Disney buying a thing? Is this a talking tree and a raccoon? Is this toys? I was really worried that's what happened. And then I

Starting point is 00:02:22 saw what James Gunn did with these characters. And I was so aware that in that case, the hierarchy of Marvel had just changed. He was able to make a cosmic movie totally realigned what I think Marvel had been originally planning because of how much we loved that cosmic family, how much we loved that bunch of assholes. That changed Marvel. He is a world builder in his own right. So what had to happen was he had to make Guardians of the Galaxy. It had to do so shockingly well that years later, it would be cited as the reason that the Suicide Squad got effectively re-edited from the movie it was going to be with David Ayer to the trailer that was edited for Comic-Con, and then reshaped to be the trailer that was effectively

Starting point is 00:03:01 a James Gunn tone, and then he would have to get fired from Disney and then hired at DC to make the Suicide Squad movie they had apparently always wanted. That then did exceedingly well, especially for an R-rated movie opening in a pandemic. Got a spinoff with Peacemaker, because it was so critically acclaimed as well as people watching it, then got rehired at Disney to not only finish his own trilogy of Guardians of the Galaxy, but also make a spinoff, which we do just got the trailer for with the holiday special and all of that being a sense of world building that led him to be one of the architects of infinity war and endgame one of the brain trusts that was beholden to making what the marvel cinematic universe is while home boy was working on dc's shared

Starting point is 00:03:42 universe so this is the perfect example of how you build out dc he knows comics he knows bold choices with movies and he knows world building he's going to be able to do what kevin foggy does and do it pizaz, do it on stage, present in Hall H, make comic fans invested, and he's one of us, just like Kevin Fagie is. Under that hat, Kevin Fagie is a rider die nerd that knows and cares about what panel of what issue things are happening on. So is James Gunn. James Gunn knows the obscure stuff from the 70s, the weird esoteric of the 60s, the strange crime ridden of the 70s and 80s. Then you get into the crazy image of the 90s. The guy has been there. Through it all. He's got the receipts. He's going to make the DC universe the greatest hits of DC.

Starting point is 00:04:24 like it needs to be. The thing that Marvel does best is they look at giant swathes of comic book, 10 years, and then they consolidate it into like, now that's what I call music of the comic books. James Gunn does that and arguably does it with even more obscure characters. So everyone that's been concerned about the future of Batman, the future to Superman, they shouldn't

Starting point is 00:04:40 be, because this man already knows those, and he's going to make your booster golds and your Blue Beetle sing. He's going to be the one that cares about the Blue Beetle movie as much as the Superman movie, but he's not going to stop Superman from happening, and he is surely not going to take his head off he will be seen with a face at all times henry cavils back that's the face of

Starting point is 00:04:59 superman and james gun knows it this is literally the best case scenario now let's talk about peter saffron we need to acknowledge how great a move this is to have peter saffron as well now when you look at the things that are working with marvel they've got a very very singular entity in kevin foggy a producer like we've never really had before because he's three things he's a showman he's an excellent exceptional top of the line producer and he's a rider die comic book junkie now when you combine james gunn and peter saffron who are both excellent producers so there you go you've solved the producer issue james gunn is a genius of comic book lore and an excellent showman and then you've got an on-site genius creative producer in peter saffron so you've got a great behind-the-scenes producer and james gun

Starting point is 00:05:45 a great on the day on set available very hands-on producer and peter saffron and both are giant comic book fans and then you've got the showmanship of james gun this is the frankenstein foggy i've dreamed of i can see it now we've got hall h with james gun coming out on stage and introducing people you've got peter saffron who's on set even on movies that james gun's directing you've got this man who i'm talking about saffron here still who is so hands on that he was one of the key figures in making sure the peacemaker show happened in spinning off of the suicide squad i'm gonna totally own a behind the scenes moment right here i did press on shazam and i toured with shazam i I loved Shazam so much that I was with it in New York, California, Hawaii.

Starting point is 00:06:26 I was with the cast. I took two of them comic book shopping. Shazam was my baby. And at every turn, I was so impressed at how hands-on Peter Saffner was, how important the fan experience was to him, how much he wanted to know how much we saw in the lore, how much he knew about the Shazam lore, which, frankly, let's be honest, Shazam is not a well-known quantity,

Starting point is 00:06:46 and how much he was happy that the actors were so invested. And then I actually ran into the guy, not that long ago. He recognized me on the streets in Burbank, and we had a great conversation about Peacemaker and about how much he wants certain things to happen in D.C. I'm not going to talk about that on there because I hope they happened, but the guy was so invested in my experience as both a journalist, a fan, a comic book junkie, he wanted to know what I thought of this decision, and he was so in love with Peacemaker. He was so giddy about what had been done with Peacemaker. That gives me hope in the DC universe going forward. So we've got this

Starting point is 00:07:17 Frankenstein I talked about. We've got the producer, comic book, and showmen all on stage in these two and we've got peter saffron being i have only heard amazing things about as far as what he's like on set this is a man that turns small budget movies into large budget successes he got his start in horror he's done a bunch of very bold things like ryan reynolds buried and then he went on to make sure aquaman made its billion dollars made shazam for pennies on the dollar for what superhero movies cost and that did well so that's what we need right now we need a director and a producer that are both good at making this much money into this much money because right now if you haven't noticed that's what dc is struggling with

Starting point is 00:07:50 looking at how to leverage the money they have and rebuild from the ground up. So you've got two guys that can do that, and best of all, their comic book fans, and even better of all, they care about our opinion. I don't know anyone outside of the many aforementioned times, Kevin Feigey, that loves the fans so publicly, so directly, as much as the issue. Honestly, this is the best case in our for DC. DC is in the best sets of hands it could be, and the future of DC is looking bright. feels like when you're reading a superman comic and you turn the page and you see them flying

Starting point is 00:08:23 outside the planet and everything's like birds are chirping things are saying this is how i feel about dc right now i am a giant dc comics fan i have wanted dc comics to have a strangle hold on movies in so many ways for so long it only makes marvel work harder it only makes dc fans have a place to feel welcome and it only makes both universes better and that only leads to better films if dc makes bold chances that indie films can make bolder chances because movies will be doing like The rising tide lifts all boats is what I'm saying. I appreciate each and every one of you. I'm overjoyed at this news.

Starting point is 00:08:54 James Gunn, you're the best. Peter Safran. Thank you so much for caring. DC, you're in good hands and I cannot wait to be along for the ride. You guys better ready for like 800% more DC content because your boy is in. Let's get it.

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The Reel Rejects - COY'S COMIC CORNER: HOLY CRAP! James Gunn Is Now DC's Kevin Feige! (NEW DCEU)

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