Reports abound that after four years of absolute failure, the chickens have finally come home to roost for James Gunn.
\n\nGunn and his DC Universe co-CEO, Peter Safran, were fired by Skydance CEO David Ellison on Friday. Ellison just took control of Warner Bros. Discovery and apparently decided things at DC needed an immediate enema. Gunn and Safran had a contract through April. Ellison told them to clean out their desks by December 1.
\n\nTaking over is a former Marvel executive, Jeremy Latcham, who was a big part of Marvel’s early success and is a big believer in the classic storytelling model that made Marvel a global phenomenon.
\n\nAs I have previously written, Gunn’s problem was this:
\n\nMy theory on Gunn is that he made one decent movie, the original Guardians of the Galaxy, and everything after was a reheated version of the same. Gunn’s sensibility worked that one time. The problem is that his sensibility — ironic distance, shallow snark, meta jokes, mocking the genre — wears pretty thin after a while. The first time we all feel smart for getting the jokes. After that, it feels like he’s mocking the audience for liking what they like.
\n\nGunn emitted…
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