DC Films Updates: DCEU to Focus Less on Interconnected Stories
While the DCEU (DC Extended Universe) is relatively new, DC has announced that it will be making a new brand of movies that will be separate from the interconnected stories of DC characters.
With the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), DC felt that it had to come up with a brand of movies that would interconnect the stories of its superhero and villain characters, too. Hence, in 2013, the first-ever DCEU movie was released to the public via the Henry Cavill-starrer, "Man of Steel."
Three years later, it was followed by last year's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" and "Suicide Squad" and last summer's blockbuster, Gal Gadot's "Wonder Woman." While all the DCEU films made money, all the movies were slammed for being devoid of humor and scattered storyline, except for "Wonder Woman."
Next month, the fifth movie under the DCEU brand, "Justice League," is hitting the theaters, and it may be the last movie that will focus on the interconnection of the DC superheroes and villains as DC has recently announced that it will deemphasize the idea of a shared universe. While the DCEU will not be scrapped, more DC movies under Warner Bros will have a standalone vibe, pretty much like "Wonder Woman."
"Our intention, certainly, moving forward is using the continuity to help make sure nothing is diverging in a way that doesn't make sense, but there's no insistence upon an overall storyline or interconnectivity in that universe," said DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson in an interview with Vulture.
"Some of the movies do connect the characters together, like 'Justice League.' But, like with 'Aquaman,' our goal is not to connect 'Aquaman' to every movie," added DC Films president Geoff Johns.
Johns also confirmed that DC is coming up with a new brand of movies that will be separate from the DCEU, and the first movie under the still unannounced brand will be the origin story of "The Joker," which was reported earlier and had the fans and critics alike divided.
