By DC Studios chief James Gunn has quickly clarified a report about “Superman” reshoots that recently emerged.
According to CBM, the talk suggested several days of reshoots are scheduled to take place in Los Angeles soon. Gunn took to Threads to clarify that further filming is taking place, but it’s nothing that dramatic:
“Sort of. Not a few days. We’re doing a day and a half of pickup shots. No scenes. No reshoots. Just a handful of individual shots to enhance the film.”
Gunn has made it a mission statement of the new DC Universe to not greenlight a film until the script is done and locked, and thus any additional filming required after the main shoot should be fairly minimal.
The aim is to avoid the headaches that Marvel Studios has found itself in where several films have undergone ‘additional filming’ that’s stretched to many weeks and seen major overhauls of films.
Gunn also recently clarified on Happy Sad Confused that the DC Universe will NOT be doing a Marvel-style build up to a crossover film taking on a new ‘big bad’ ala Thanos.
Gunn says the aim of these films isn’t to tell one huge story, but rather focus on world building:
“These are interconnected stories but people are always going to be [saying], ‘Who’s the big bad?’ Are there big bads for connected films? Yes. But is this all about, ‘Hey, I’m telling this one story about this big bad’? No. This is about a connected universe. We’re world-building. We’re not story-building. We’re not writing one story that has a beginning, middle, and end. We’re creating a universe where people in which can go and join in and experience it. It is much more like Star Wars.”
Gunn’s “Creature Commandos” has begun airing on Max with new episodes coming over the next few weeks.
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