Home News Entertainment Warner Bros. Discovery wants to reboot its DCEU in the mould of the MCU. (Image credit: Warner Bros.) During its Q2 2022 earnings report presentation, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) – the recently merged entertainment corporation – revealed its plans to build a Marvel Cinematic Universe-style franchise for its own superhero film series. That being, the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), which is subsequently set to undergo a significant reboot.Wait, didn’t Warner Bros. already attempt this? Yes, with a Zack Snyder-led movie line-up before the studio shelved those plans in favor of a multiverse-style, disconnected project approach. That blueprint has been relatively successful but, now that Warner Bros. and Discovery have joined forces, it’s a model that’s getting cast aside for an MCU-like franchise instead.Black Adam star Dwayne Johnson’s claim that the “hierarchy of power in the DCEU is about to change” suddenly takes on greater significance – but this can’t be what the Hollywood A-lister had in mind when he originally conceived that phrase.How so? Because Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest cinematic universe plan isn’t going to work – and that’s down to the numerous in-development projects and ready-for-release productions on its current slate.I don’t want them to follow the MCU. I want them to make their own formula. Ffs. More creatively free projects like The Batman and The Suicide Squad that do t necessarily have to be tied down by an interconnected universe pic.twitter.com/ttQ3R20ZAYAugust 4, 2022See moreCurrently, there are four DCEU movies set to land in theaters between… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s MCU-style plan for the DCEU isn’t going to work
