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Gunn shared David Ellison’s Skydance announcement video on Threads shortly after the incoming Warner Bros. owner unveiled the branding for the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. company.

“What once was the peak, is now just the beginning,” Gunn wrote.

That’s the same slogan Ellison used while unveiling the new Skydance, which will sit atop Paramount and Warner Bros. following completion of the merger.

The reaction beneath Gunn’s post, however, wasn’t exactly celebratory.

The version under consideration adapts Frank Miller’s graphic novel straight, with nothing rewritten to fit a shared universe.

“They’re looking at The Dark Knight Returns as a 2-parter, major event, the graphic novel with no changes to accommodate the need for a canon universe,” an insider tells us.

The word comes as the $111 billion Paramount-WBD merger is set to close by early October.

Zack Snyder’s The Last Photograph had its world premiere at TIFF’s John Bassett Theatre Sunday night, September 13, and the first reactions out of the room were brutal.

No surprise there.

Critics have been panning Zack Snyder movies for two decades while audiences keep rating them higher; the Rotten Tomatoes numbers are below.

James Gunn's DCU was supposed to be a fresh start for DC, leaving the DCEU's many mistakes in the past (where they belong). However, as the new DCU takes shape, some increasingly familiar warning signs feel like cause for concern.

That's because several of Gunn's decisions bear an uncomfortable resemblance to Sony's failed Spider-Man Universe. From an increasingly fluid slate and a fascination with lesser-known characters to frequent questions over how all these wildly different projects fit together, the parallels are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

The cast and creative team behind Lanterns are defending the extreme methods used by John Stewart’s mother, describing her as an “unsung hero” responsible for shaping her son into a superhero.

The third episode of the HBO series, titled “OutKast,” reveals that John’s mother, Bernadette Stewart, spent years conditioning him to become a Green Lantern. Although her methods could easily be interpreted as abusive, actress Jasmine Cephas Jones believes the episode celebrates mothers who accomplish the seemingly impossible.

Lanterns writer and co-executive producer Vanessa Baden Kelly has divided opinions by branding the show's Green Lantern Corps ring a "sexist" and admitting some writers were unfamiliar with the hero.

If you read the official trade reports coming out of Hollywood, incoming Paramount chief David Ellison loves the shiny blueprint James Gunn and Peter Safran are still struggling to build over at DC Studios. Supposedly, the new corporate overlords plan to keep the co-CEOs right where they are once the ink dries on the mega-merger.

However, if you ask anyone who has spent more than five minutes watching studio musical chairs, “planning to keep them” is often high-level corporate speak for “until we let their deal run out.”

Lanterns Episode 3 “OutKast” replaces willpower with a nonsensical fear test, turns John Stewart’s childhood into an abusive social experiment, and rewrites Green Lantern mythology around one of the ugliest racial messages ever forced into a superhero adaptation.

Zack Snyder s going from the epic world of DC superheroes to the Toronto Film Festival with a special event screening for his passion project The Last Photograph.

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Recent comments from Justice League star Gal Gadot appear to confirm that DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran ghosted the actress after promising her Wonder Woman 3 in 2023.

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Grant Morrison has watched Lanterns, and the verdict on Kyle Chandler is that he’s giving a terrific performance, as somebody who isn’t Hal Jordan.

The writer of DC’s The Green Lantern with artist Liam Sharp reviewed the premiere in the latest edition of the Xanaduum Substack, after blasting Damon Lindelof’s Green Lantern comments — the ones Lindelof apologized for and called “dumb”.

Morrison writes that after all that, watching the show felt like an obligation.

James Gunn built his entire DC pitch on one promise: no cameras roll until the script is done.

Lanterns didn’t do that.

Star Kyle Chandler tells The Hollywood Reporter the eight-episode season was block-shot before all eight scripts existed.

THR’s byline says flat out: “The two Green Lantern actors had the challenge of block-shooting a season without completed scripts at first.”

Over two years after it was first mentioned as being in development, Zack Snyder's 300 prequel has seemingly taken a big step forward, and it's seemingly found a new home on Netflix.

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Everyone reading our Dark Knight Returns reporting this past week has asked the same question in one form or another: why would the incoming owners of Warner Bros. want a Zack Snyder Batman movie?

We put it to our insiders. The same insiders who told us that Hal Jordan dies, which was confirmed last night.

The answer came back as a list, and none of it is fan service. It’s business.

Per our insiders, there are a few reasons Paramount wants The Dark Knight Returns. Two of them explain the whole week.