In the wake of the announcement of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s abrupt exit from DC Studios, the rumor mill is spinning nearly out of control in regards to just what the hell is going on over there.
First up, a sudden topic of discussion late yesterday online comes from a feature piece at The Wrap in which a paragraph centers on DC’s ‘Elseworlds’ projects, citing the Matt Reeves Batman films and the animated film “Dynamic Duo”.
The article ends with the sentence “the low-budgeted horror film ‘Clayface’, centered on an iconic villain from Batman’s rogues’ gallery, also falls into these parameters.”
This has caused confusion as previously Gunn confirmed on Threads that “Clayface” was firmly canon and “the first DCU film out of chronological order”. There has been no official clarification if that status has been rescinded as present, leading to questions as to whether the feature’s phrasing was simply incorrect editorial or they are aware of something not yet published elsewhere.
Either way, social media has run with it as if it were official confirmation of it being out of the DCU and responded as such.
Then there’s “Man of Tomorrow” which has quickly become the subject of the rumor mill regarding potential reshoots on the movie. The film is still very much Gunn’s movie and completed filming a while back, but the rumors have sprung up regarding cameos of other DCU characters in the film.
Nexus Point News seems to be the source of the original report which suggested that cameos for Supergirl and Blue Beetle were being cut from the film while Adria Arjona’s Wonder Woman is ‘in limbo’, and DC’s new owners Skydance want to keep both David Corenswet as Superman and Robert Pattinson as Batman.
A few hours later, they corrected the report, saying the Supergirl cameo will remain in the film. Scooper The Moonlight Warrior cites a source saying: “Cutting Supergirl and Blue Beetle is overblown and production is only shooting preplanned pickups; not full blown reshoots” and that it’s “literally impossible to cut Supergirl from Man of Tomorrow without reshooting half the movie.”
For now, mostly it seems the reports flying around are merely conjecture fueled by speculation online. Take basically all of it as wild rumor and nothing more. One thing that is confirmed comes from actor Nathan Fillion who plays Guy Gardener/Green Lantern. Appearing on his Once We Were Spacemen podcast, he confirmed that he will share scenes with Aaron Pierre in “Man of Tomorrow” following the pair doing so in HBO Max’s “Lanterns”.
