James Gunn Returns Fire On Criticisms Of Casting Marvel Actors In The DCEU
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In the nearly three months since James Gunn became co-CEO of DC Studios, the director has been bombarded with armchair quarterbacks and backseat drivers on Twitter. They come with pleas and demands for how they want him to run the studio, on top of the rumors brewed among them, and Gunn faces them head-on. This approach has been well-received. Even Kevin Smith commended him on it. So what’s the latest thing he’s had to address?
It seems one particular Twitter user is upset at the prospect of Gunn casting his Guardians of the Galaxy colleagues in future DC projects. He tweeted directly at Gunn asking him not to “encourage” his Guardians cast to come with him to be part of the new DC TV and film universe he is constructing. He suggested finding “fresh” talent to craft the characters and give audiences new memories as if there was some purity to it.
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Gunn quoted his tweet to respond, pointing out that he will continue to cast as he pleases, whether they be new faces entirely, old colleagues, or superstars who would be working with James for the first time. As previously discussed, he’s brought actors with smaller roles in parts of his work already to bigger roles in subsequent projects, and sometimes it’s the other way around. He’s already brought Nathan Fillion, whom he first worked with on his films Slither and Super (and has years of voicing Hal Jordan in DTV DC films) to Guardians and The Suicide Squad.
Gunn has also reaffirmed that the sample of the new slate of DC films will still be revealed by the end of Tuesday.
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