re: James Gunn announces his new DCU slate

Who cares dude. Cavill really wasn't that popular, and I'm someone that's been defending MOS on here since day 1

Never heard of this "authority"

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Speaking at the DC Studios presentation, James Gunn elaborated on what fans can expect from The Authority movie – starting with what it is! 

"The Authority. So this is one of my real passion projects, I've been working really hard on it with a writer, is we're starting to put together the entire story," Gunn said. 

"Yeah, this is a big movie and I don't know how many of you know are familiar with The Authority... The Authority is a very different kind of superhero story. They are basically good intention, but they think that the world is completely broken and the only way to fix it is to take things into their own hands, whether that means killing people, destroying heads of state, changing governments, whatever they want to do to make the world better. And we'll see how that journey goes for them. But as I said earlier, there's morally gray characters of which these are."

The Authority was a superhero team spun out of another comic book series, Stormwatch, which was part of the independent comic imprint WildStorm before it was absorbed by DC. Writer Warren Ellis took over the series in Vol. 2, transforming Wildstorm Universe lore significantly. While writing the WildC.A.T.S./Alien crossover event comic in 1998, Ellis killed off a bunch of the Stormwatch characters he didn't personally create or want to use, taking the surviving characters (Jenny Sparks, Jack Hawksmoor, Apollo and his husband Midnighter, etc.) into a new series, The Authority, in 1999. The Authority's main selling point was being a team that operated unilaterally, independent of politics, law, or ethics, doing whatever was necessary to complete their missions and/or goals.

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I love Gunn’s movies but can’t help to be underwhelmed here.

I guess the distinction of DC Elseworlds is good to avoid confusion with the main DCU. And possibly even tie all worlds into Crisis many years down the line.

It’s still extremely unclear how the previous films fit in though. So there’s a new Superman and Batman w/ Damien, presumably different characters than either Batfleck, Keaton, or Cavill’s versions… but the Themyscira show is set before Gadot’s Wonder Woman? And then you have whatever becomes of The Flash if it does well. It’s hard to decipher which things are canon or not, and seems very convoluted.

I thought he wanted to start younger, like with a Superman origin story? But for Batman the very first iteration will have Bruce Wayne's son as Robin?

Authority was one of the best series of the turn of the century, but while the gay characters were accepted then, they’ll now be seen as Hollywood forcing homosexuality on us.

A shame, because Midnighter is a great take on Batman.

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but while the gay characters were accepted then, they’ll now be seen as Hollywood forcing homosexuality on us.

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This is disingenuous and you know it. There's a difference in source material vs changing it just because. Nice of you to throw that in there when no one else brought it up. Definitely your MO.

did that flash movie with keaton and batfleck get pulled?

Great storylines- some of the best of the early 2000s

Extremely edgy for the time- the team comes into a fight drunk. Gay Superman/Batman pastiche, The Superman character is assaulted by Captain America, etc.

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I thought he wanted to start younger, like with a Superman origin story?

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IIRC he said he wanted a younger Superman but not an origin story. Like, year 2 Superman.