New DC Bosses Seem to Ghost Iconic Arrowverse Producer For No Particular Reason
You all remember Arrowverse, right? Well, new DC bosses seem to have forgotten about it or at least so it seems.
Arrowverse has been a beloved brainchild of producer Greg Berlanti and his colleague Marc Guggenheim. The latter has been working on it for ten years and now that Arrowverse is coming to an end (with The Flash series being the closing chapter) Guggenheim hasn't even been approached by this new regime they have at DC now.
Just a reminder that Arrowverse brought us a nothing short of legendary crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths where we saw characters from the 1966 Batman television show.
The 1989 Batman movie, the 1990 The Flash series, the Smallville, Lucifer, Doom Patrol, Titans series, references to Swamp Thing, the Green Lantern movie, Superman Returns, Kingdom Come and the (for now) very movie version of The Flash — Ezra Miller — top-secretly popping up to make a cameo.
As per Marc Guggenheim, those endeavors wound up being met with "apathy" at best by Hollywood.
Apparently, the massive geek reaction the crossover got from fans all over the world meant next to nothing to new DC heads James Gunn and Peter Safran.
These two completely ghosted Guggenheim when starting work on the promised Chapter One of their new DC universe. Not as much as a conversation was held with Marc Guggenheim about all of this.
As it turned out Gunn and Safran didn't grace Arrowverse with as much as a separate mention when talking about the DC Universe they are about to build.
Don't get us wrong – fans love Gunn and what he did for Marvel and the whole Chapter One concept looks promising, because let's face it – the previous version of DCEU was complex and convoluted to say the least, but the mere appreciation for those who helped pave the path before you is just common sense and good taste.