lol

This goes back to who answers to who. Gunn for all intents and purposes only answered to David Ellison. Lachtam now answers to the Goldberg and Greenstein and THEY might be the ones who mandate the merge.

The whole onset of this company is to make as much money from their product as possible. I’m not entirely sure they’ll let creative integrity strive. Now I could be wrong and they could let Matt be and they finish that trilogy. As of right now I, just like all of us, have no idea where this goes.

Gunn like Snyder did so terrible that the company fell into evil hands

I hope wachowskis no longer executive produce matrix 5 now

Gal Gadot welcome back to the cast of Barbie

i called it lmao
gunns departure post got more likes than his MOT announcement

Great more gynecologist jokes

employing an entire cast and crew adds up quick

I don't think Reeves cared about Gunn's dynamic though. He always maintained a balanced relationship with WB leadership as well. The Batman was a WB film and Abdy and De Luca signed Reeves to an overall deal right after WBD merger. Even when scripting Reeves said himself he was sending parts to WB and DC

He was gonna have to have a relationship with Goldberg and Greenstein anyways, and eventually pitch to them. IF (not certain) they like him, he might have an easier time with them given leadership is streamlined now and Skydance needs projects. Reeves is also still a key player for Paramount's Cloverfield IP alongside Abrams.

What about this new leadership dynamic is different than what DC Film division was when The Batman released? The Batman, Part 2 and The Penguin were not Gunn's green lights.

aw hell naw wtf was i smoking

True, I just feel greed might concur all based on the circumstances. If they did merge, all they would have to set up is Diana. The whole thing about them wanting to quickly get the JL up and running is what’s leading me to these thoughts. Now if they end up just having 2 Batmen up anyway fine by me but for some reason I can’t see them doing that.

Mad hopium

Hahaha. So not only was it a failure but they was spending big bucks on luxury s***??

Man...real dc fans...this is your king?

Couldn't be me

Think people also forget that like a week before the merger, Channing Dungey as head of WB TV re-upped Reeves' deal. This would have had to have been cleared by new leadership

Dungey has since had her contract renewed by Skydance under a promotion title. Reeves also has a healthy relationship with Casey Bloys, who is a part of the leadership team and was promoted to run both HBO Max and Paramount Plus.

I'm not saying this to comfort or anything (we don't know what will happen), more so to show the range of people that even need to back you in the first place for any of this to work. You need a wide net of support to even get 1 TV show off the ground, let alone a movie or sequel.

It was never just Gunn/Safran working with Reeves.

LMAO HE WAS GETTING TO IT

They def held off on Zaslav knowing Skydance was gonna be desperate.

They need big films and stars, even if they have to spend a while on bad leverage first,

Cap

Lmao yeah right He was dead set on kicking the Batman can down the road till Matt reaves either wrapped up his trilogy or gave in to the merger idea

no no he was taking too long /s

Trash ass company bruh lol

Suddenly all the exciting plans come out now that's he's gone

If Gunn/Safran agreed to the preferred leadership structure though would they have stayed? Its not like Skydance just learned how much they were paying them 5 days ago

Also the WBD deal was insane and abnormal to begin with. Gunn was getting up to $10M per DC film? Wasn't he paid $15M to direct Superman?

Nah man you def couldn't get away with these box office performances then

Oh god here we go again lmao