DC Fans Officially Fight Back and Demand James Gunn’s Return
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne from a misspent youth of watching monster movies on TV, perusing the sun-faded goods at the local video rental shop, and staining his fingers with ink from the Video Movie Guide. Areas of interest include science fiction, film noir, horror flicks, '70s disaster pictures, Bond movies, '90s action, giant robots, dinosaurs, super heroes, and the exuberantly schlocky output of Cannon Films. He also enjoys both Star Trek and Star Wars when they're good, and maybe even more when they're bad. As a Canadian, he also has a vested interest in Canadian movies and TV shows, especially the cheesier ones dubbed "Canuxploitation."
An expert on Marvel Comics, he has also written for the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, and is a member of the Marvel Research Team. He can frequently be found pontificating on comic-book continuity or bemoaning the misfortunes of the Toronto Maple Leafs on his Twitter account.
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The fallout from the shocking news of James Gunn and Peter Safran's departure from DC Studios continues. The duo were brought in to shape the DC cinematic universe into a franchise capable of challenging Disney's MCU for box office supremacy, but they've been dismissed four years after coming in. However, DC fans are already voicing their objection to the changes with a new petition on Change.org.
This isn't the first time DC fans have vented their collective spleen on the internet after C-suite changes. When Zack Snyder was removed from the production of Justice League, and replaced with Joss Whedon, a great hue and cry came from the DC faithful who had enjoyed Snyder's dark takes on Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Amid a number of box-office and creative struggles, Warner Bros. returned the film to Snyder for Zack Snyder's Justice League, the so-called "Snyder Cut" that restored creative control to Snyder and ballooned the film's length to a hefty 242 minutes. Despite this, occasional calls to "restore the Snyderverse" have gone unheeded.
Now, it's the turn of fans who enjoyed Gunn's take on the DC universe; they've filed their own petition demanding his reinstatement alongside Safran. As of Friday, November 13, the number of signatures on the petition has reached 70,000. The petition can be viewed and signed at Change.org.
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