![]() ![]() In-story, though-diegetically, let’s say-the walls between the universes are porous. Recent iterations of the Warner Bros.–owned DC movies do likewise. Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe sparked the trend, and that company’s Star Wars franchise does it, too-that one even includes theme park rides. But the idea of a single, long arc extending across multiple tentpole movies (and TV shows, books, comics, and games) is an innovation of the last couple decades. The big comic book companies all have their own sprawling metastatic story lines. The idea of an internally consistent universe spanning multiple books or TV shows dates back to at least the dime novels of the late 19th century-or the interlocking mythologies of the ancient Greeks, if you want to be that guy. ![]() It is, as Thanos would’ve put it, inevitable. Multiverses come, but they also go-usually in a cataclysmic pendulum-swing of epic violence. Lo! There shall arrive a herald! (Pretend I have silver skin and a cosmic surfboard, or ride a dimension-warping chair-makes work-from-home super easy.) For it is mine to observe the many pop-cultural story universes, right back to some of the most significant multiversal moments in comics history. Usually the characters on the show have the manners not to notice. As the scientist Darcy Lewis (played by Kat Dennings, herself a sitcom vet) put it on the show: “She recast Pietro?” Just like Darrin from Betwitched or Aunt Vivian on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, these things happen. The actor swap was entirely in keeping with the late-20th-century-sitcom signal that WandaVision emits. At the door was the actor Evan Peters, reprising his role as Pietro from another comic book movie franchise: the X-Men one. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Aaron Taylor-Johnson played the part. ![]() That’s good soap opera stuff Pietro had superhuman speed and was killed by Ultron in the second Avengers movie.īut this Pietro wasn’t that Pietro. Wanda opened the door to find her brother, Pietro, who was supposed to be dead. ![]() (Spoilers here close-tab if that’s a problem.) At the emotional peak of an argument between the superpowered Wanda and her android husband, Vision, over her reality-warping totalitarian control of their sitcomish hometown, their doorbell rang. This experience might make James Gunn one of the best candidates to create a crossover movie between DC and Marvel someday.The fifth episode of Marvel's WandaVision ended with a surprise guest appearance-and a cliffhanger. to develop The Suicide Squad, though he's set to start filming the third Guardians movie later this year. During his temporary exodus from Marvel and Disney, he teamed up with DC and Warner Bros. had offered Gunn the keys to a Superman movie, it was the idea of tackling The Suice Squad that intrigued him more than anything else.īefore venturing into DC, Gunn made a name for himself at Marvel Studios with the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. It features Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn as part of an ensemble cast that also includes Idris Elba, John Cena, Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis, and Daniela Melchior. James Gunn's next movie, The Suicide Squad, is set to premiere in theaters and on HBO Max early next month. Whether we could ever get through the barrage, the Berlin Wall of lawyers we would need to get through to ever make something like that happen, I don't know, but it would be a blast." You know, it's something we all like to dream about. "I know it's exciting for even the heads of Marvel and DC to think about, Kevin Feige over at Marvel and Toby Emmerich over at Warner Bros. Even so, the talks he's had with both sides about a general crossover have apparently gone over pretty well, and the biggest challenge would be working out the legal issues. To be clear, Gunn didn't pitch a Harley Quinn meets Groot directly to DC, though he admitted in a later tweet he might have mentioned it "in passing" to Kevin Feige. "I've actually talked about that to the heads of both Marvel and DC, but, you know, it's like, they - you know, everybody's open to everything, but whether anything would ever happen, who knows? But the idea of being able to bring Marvel and DC together in a movie is, that would be really fun for me." ![]()
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