A few weeks before the release of James Gunn's Superman, Warner Bros. Discovery cancels this very promising DC film. Too bad... We'll tell you everything!
Warner is ending this DC film
After a long wait, James Gunn's DCU will soon make its first steps in cinemas, with the release of Superman. Scheduled for July 9, 2025, it will in fact be of the second work of the DC Universe, the first being the animated series Creature Commandos, launched on Max in December 2024. The film Superman, which will be in direct confrontation with Fantastic Four: Beginning - the first feature film of Phase 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe -, has the delicate mission of making us forget the pitfalls of the DCEU and showing all the potential of this new DC cinematic universe. In any case, the expectations of this inaugural film are all the higher given that James Gunn is a talented and respected director.
James Gunn and Peter Safran are working hard on the construction of an extended universe capable of fully competing with an MCU long considered moribund but which seems on the verge of making a surprising leap forward with Thunderbolts* (very well received by viewers) and the upcoming films, namely Fantastic Four: First Steps and the diptych Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars by the Russo brothers. Among the most attractive films in the DCU, we can obviously mention Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (adapted from the cult comic by Tom King), Clayface (from a screenplay by Mark Flanagan) and The Authority (based on the legendary comic by Warren Ellis). In short, a great program in perspective!
We nevertheless learn in the columns of the very serious American media The Hollywood Reporter that the Sgt. Rock film project developed by Luca Guadagnino (Challengers) has been canceled by Warner Bros. Discovery. The film was supposed to follow the adventures of Sergeant Rock, who formed an alliance with the French Resistance in order to recover an artifact coveted by Hitler's Germany. The character was to be played by Irish actor Colin Farrell (absolutely marvelous as Oswald Cobblepot in the film The Batman and the series The Penguin). Unfortunately, despite being very advanced in pre-production, the project was scrapped, for no clear reason. According to THR, this decision could be motivated either by scheduling issues (due to the film requiring location shooting) or by a reluctance to entrust Luca Guadagnino (a director appreciated for his intimate dramas) is making an action film with a budget of 70 million dollars.
Note that Deadline is more cautious than Reporter and suggests that the film will simply be postponed, without a set schedule. Is this enough to give fans hope that Luca Guadagnino's project will come to fruition? Fingers crossed. Even if the economic situation and Warner Bros.' financial difficulties. Discovery tends to accentuate our pessimism. What do you think? Don't hesitate to tell us in the comments section.
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