JAMES GUNN Shares His Opinion on Differences Between MARVEL and the DCU

James Gunn (Co-CEO of DC Studios) returns to the pod this week to talk about his takeover of the new DC content slate, the differences between DC and Marvel, and all the pressure that comes with creating a new Superman film. James goes back and discusses the impact that creating Guardians of the Galaxy had on his career and how ‘allowing himself to give a s***’ was a large catalyst to its success. We also talk about embarrassing Chris Pratt moments, whether or not there are too many superhero films, and the future of Superman’s bald headed villain.

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JAMES GUNN Shares His Opinion on Differences Between MARVEL and the DCU #insideofyou #jamesgunn #mcu #dcu

[cheesydawg]

He perfectly understands the difference between these universes. Marvel is our world with superheroes whilst DC is is a completely alternate world. Gunn understanding that fundamental difference is gonna benefit the DCU so well.

[spencergsmith]

The fact that he says the 1978 Superman film is his favorite DC film gives me hope for his DCU plans.

[Kulilin]

James mentioning Star City immediately after Gotham and Metropolis gives me so much hope for the Green Lantern projects coming up

[ClaireSunshine]

A proper Superman fan heading up a DC universe gives me hope for this to actually work out

[ozoak]

I love the quiet "you did a better job". I love Hackman, but agree with Gunn here - maybe it's as a result of having more time to fill out the character afforded by a series than a film, but regardless, he's right.

[billymoore]

Growing up, Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man have always been my favorites. But I've always been more of a DC fan than a Marvel fan. Mainly because of James Gunn's reasons. It's more fantasy and there's a lot more in DC than Marvel.

[BooN]

Miles Morales in the comics was very well done but needed a little fine tuning. Into the Spider-Verse not only perfected that story but it expanded on it and included so many characters and added elements that somehow worked seamlessly together. Calling it a perfect superhero film is not overstating it.

[stewartisan]

James is the man. Loved his stuff with the MCU but if anyone is going to save DC movies it will be Gunn. He understands the characters and source material.

[cheezeofages]

"Needs to have a wider range of tones"

EXACTLY. That's the main thing that's making people a bit burnt out of superhero films. All the ones with fresh tones do well.

[xxxCrackerJackxxx]

I'm really loving everything he's saying DC should have done something like this from the start instead of throwing everything in a blender right out the gate like they did to compete with the Avengers, I'm extremely optimistic albeit with a heavy dose of caution

[JustSomeMexicanwithaMustache]

One thing that bothers me with the MCU fans is when people say "but this doesn't fit with the MCU tone". Like one reason people say that the Netflix shows aren't in the MCU is because it has a darker tone to it, and they don't find it believable that this could exist in the same universe as the Avengers. Meanwhile they can accept that the Guardians and Thor exist in the same universe as Iron Man and Captain America, despite the former being more comedic and lighter in tone than the latter. In the comics themselves Spider-Man can have a darker stories compared to other comics, and other times it could be more lighter than others as well. Like Batman and Superman don't share the same tone for their own comics, but when they are together in a Justice League comic it doesn't feel jarring. Why can't people believe that Daredevil can exist in the same world as Spider-Man? It just frustrates me that people can't accept that a lighter and darker story can exist in the same universe.

[jeanpaulmedellin]

Say what you will about the MCU, but they gave a spin to characters that nobody cared about before, they became huge, and while different from their comic counterpart, they retained their essence.
Fingers crossed James can do his thing with DC, we need a proper DCU to have a good time at the cinema.

[joncarroll]

As a Luthor fan, I love that Rosenbaum has a Hackman signature on his studio wall.

[Sunderstate]

This channel is absolutely amazing!
Thanks Mr.Luthor, Sir 🙏🏻

[nathannemeth]

I think The Amazing Spiderman 2 felt like DC version of a Marvel movie.

[tofu_golem]

James Gunn is absolutely the right person to head DC movies right now.

The superhero genre was created in the Golden Age by artists and writers who were mostly the sons of immigrants, most of whom were Jewish. Those early superhero stories were basically an attempt to process what was going on in Germany at the time.

If you followed what happened to James Gunn at Marvel, he was basically kicked out by an online campaign by internet Nazis. His absolute hatred of white supremacists was in both the text and subtext of Pacemaker.

This is interesting because that means James Gunn is the filmmaker whose head is in the most similar space to the men who created the superhero genre during the Golden Age.

I'm hoping he can translate that rage into interesting movies.

[tonyantonellis]

James Gunn really knows what he is saying. And i am having a lot of faith in him. I would love to work with James Gunn as a 3D DC comics animator.

[LiterallyBatman]

As someone who is a fan of both DC and Marvel I love this because it highlights what I love about both Marvel is a story with realatble and real characters and struggles DC is this high fantasy world with New Gods and Multiverses it's grand and epic with larger than life heroes who instead of seeing yourself in them you see the person you want to become in them, Both Marvel and DC have characters who inspire us to be better but they do it in different Marvel gives us characters we can relate to to tell us that we have the capacity to be good inside us too and DC has aspirational characters, lager than life figures who makes us want to be a good who are symbols for doing the right thing in a cynical world. So Snyder's take whilst interesting turned these figures into dark, gritty anti heroes which is why I didn't really like it. Superman is not a otherworldly god, he isn't a jesus allegory he at his heart is just a simple boy from Kansas who does the right thing because it's right because he was raised to do what's right by two incredible people.

[Hades]

If not predictable good answers, i think the first two iron man films are my favorite mcu films, and phase 1 in general is my favorite MCU phase. I didn't know they were planning on creating an avengers movie, so it left me with a feeling of antication "Will they are they really?" This was before leaks that confirmed what they're planning, When we see captain america's, when they find thor's hammer, it was a lot of excitement. I know it's become popular to hate on marvel and super hero films in general, but the marvel films meant a lot to me as I was growing up. They released every year as I was a teenager right around my birthday in may. So it was a lot of found memories, going to theaters with my family to celebrate. They were always A list characters to me, especially iron man. Was a pretty big fan boy for the character. I watched cartoons of him when I was small child. Tech is the best power. Every other character that has powers has limits, but with technology there are no limits. You can become as powerful as you need to be. It opens up the possibility to almost anything. It's the power I would pick every time. I know there's a lot of scare about technology, but I still think it's really good. I love it for what it allows us to become. Tony Stark and Jimmy Neutron were my biggest idols and inspiration as a kid.

My favorite marvel movies? Probably the first two spider man movies or the first two x-men, it used to be the cultured and cool thing to be a marvel fan. It's was the opposite of now. They were the ones that was doing something unique and different. I think spiderman and x-men were genre defying before batman begins and the dark knight came around. They laid the ground work for Nolan's take on super heros to be taken seriously. His Batman movie was actually very marvel. That's what marvel started making comic heroes seem more possible, explaining them with sciencitic explanation. Marvel was at first an effort to make super heroes more plausible, more in the scientific realm of possibility. DC films weren't very concerned with reality. their characters were fantastical and not really trying to make much real world sense. Marvel has laxed the rule of making super heroes plausible, but it wasn't that way at first. They were doing films as a realistic take.

[fab-freshaquaponicbiospher]

Recently watched guardians of galaxy 3
Loved it, gave me hope