The DC Universe has simply acquired a serious replace associated to the place The Flash and Surprise Girl fall in its canon. Gal Gadot gave life to Diana Prince within the outdated DCEU film timeline, with Ezra Miller taking part in Barry Allen. Reportedly, each actors won’t return for the brand new DCU, with Surprise Girl and The Flash recast for the franchise.
In the meanwhile, there isn’t any set challenge amongst DC’s upcoming motion pictures for The Flash to seem in, regardless that followers proceed to ask for Arrowverse The Flash star Grant Gustin to play the DCU’s Flash. Nonetheless, the state of affairs lately shifted for Surprise Girl, who now has a film being written by Supergirl’s Ana Nogueira, a precedence for the DCU film slate.
On Peacemaker The Official Podcast with James Gunn, the DC Universe’s inventive chief, Gunn, revealed that he doesn’t know whether or not Surprise Girl and The Flash have been canon to the franchise on the time of the occasions in Peacemaker season 1, episode 6.
In keeping with Gunn, each Surprise Girl and The Flash will ultimately seem in his DC Universe, however it looks like the notion of how far they’re into their superhero careers has but to be mentioned forward of their anticipated film returns. Take a look at the complete quote beneath:
“Yeah, are they canon? I don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see. I mean, they’ll exist eventually. Whether they exist now, I don’t know.”
What James Gunn’s New Surprise Girl & The Flash DCU Replace Means
In James Gunn’s Superman, the film begins with a gap crawl that establishes key details about the bigger DCU and David Corenswet’s model of Superman earlier than diving into the Man of Metal’s story. Superman has been lively as a superhero for the previous three years within the DCU, with others just like the Justice Gang additionally working in Gunn’s DC Universe.
Given how The Flash and Surprise Girl are most likely going to be round Superman’s age, one thing Gunn has mentioned will probably be true for Batman, then it means the heroes may have been lively for the previous three years of the DCU. Nonetheless, that’s not the one potential path for the characters to play a task within the franchise.
In spite of everything, Superman confirmed that metahumans have been lively for the previous 300 years within the DCU. The movie additionally revealed that members of the Justice Society existed within the DCU’s previous. If the identical goes for the group, which has included Surprise Girl in sure iterations, then she may have been lively longer than Superman.
Our Take On James Gunn’s New Surprise Girl & The Flash DCU Replace
Gunn’s feedback are a transparent signal that he nonetheless has to decide on the historical past of the DCU in terms of a number of key characters. Up to now, he revealed that DC Studios was holding a beat on The Flash when it got here to improvement, greater than possible because of Ezra Miller’s DCEU film changing into a field workplace bomb.
As such, it is sensible that Gunn nonetheless has to work out the place The Flash matches into. As for Surprise Girl, DC is now cracking down on simply that. With the Surprise Girl DCU film script reportedly a precedence for the studio, it won’t take too lengthy for Diana Prince to return, answering the place she has been within the DCU.
Created by
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
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Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Cara Delevingne, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Zachary Levi, Dwayne Johnson, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Robust, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Djimon Hounsou, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett, Rosie Perez, Ella Jay Basco, Ali Wong, Ewan McGregor, Idris Elba, John Cena, Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Xolo Mariduena
Film(s)
Man of Metal, Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice, Suicide Squad, Surprise Girl, Justice League, Aquaman, Shazam!, Birds of Prey, Surprise Girl 1984, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, The Suicide Squad, Black Adam, Shazam! The Fury of the Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle, Superman, The Courageous and the Daring
Character(s)
Superman, Batman, Surprise Girl, Aquaman, The Flash, Cyborg, Harley Quinn, The Joker, Shazam, Darkseid, Amanda Waller, Lex Luthor, Doomsday, Deadshot, Deathstroke, Black Canary, Black Adam
