By the time his brand new cut of Justice League premieres on HBO Max next month, Zack Snyder will have spent over a decade working almost exclusively within the realms of the DCEU, having initially been hired to helm Man of Steel in late 2010. In fact, not even including his directorial output, the filmmaker has only been credited on just one non-superhero project in that entire time having executive produced 300: Rise of an Empire.
When John Lee Hancock's crime thriller The Little Things premiered simultaneously on the big screen and HBO Max last month, the majority of reviews pegged it as an old school throwback straight out of the 90s that was more than a little reminiscent of David Fincher's Se7en.
Margot Robbie was as close to the ideal casting choice for Harley Quinn as the DCEU could possibly get, with the actress' portrayal of the longtime fan favorite generally being very well received by fans. Unfortunately, however, the critical and/or commercial performance of the movies she's starred in, not to mention the ones that were abandoned, have seen any plans to establish the former Harleen Quinzell as one of the franchise's major players put on ice.
Jared Leto may have given Margot Robbie vegan cinnamon buns on the set of Suicide Squad and not the dead rat that had been reported, but that doesn't mean it was all sunshine and rainbows between the cast of David Ayer's misguided blockbuster. The Academy Award winner still went to bizarrely exhaustive lengths to get into character as the Joker, and it ultimately turned out to be for nothing.
Back on that fateful day in October 2014 when Warner Bros. and DC Films announced ten new movies to carry the nascent DCEU into the future, even the most pessimistic of fans couldn't have imagined how things would have turned out. Cyborg and Green Lantern Corps were dropped entirely, The Flash still hasn't started shooting yet, and Justice League went on to become one of the most infamous productions in recent history.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was a movie that split opinion down the middle at virtually every turn, and one of the biggest talking points in the aftermath was Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor. The actor made some interesting choices when it came to the character, essentially reinventing the middle-aged businessman as a young entrepreneur that reminded people more than a little of his Academy Award nominated turn as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network.
Fans had been waiting so long to see DC's two crown jewels face off on the big screen for so long that Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice came burdened with almost impossible levels of expectation. For the first time ever, two of the most iconic fictional characters in history were set to duke it out in live-action, but the results left a lot of people underwhelmed.
When it was first announced, The Boys looked destined to achieve cult status at the very least, with a blackly comic and foul-mouthed superhero show virtually guaranteed to draw in a decent audience. However, the comic book adaptation has since surpassed even the most optimistic of projections, to the point that it could arguably be called the crown jewel of Amazon's original lineup and one of the biggest series on the planet.
Unless they can't be bothered posting anything themselves and hire a team to handle it for them, celebrities using social media has given fans better insight into the personalities of the rich and famous to a much greater degree than ever before. It used to be all about tabloid speculation and whispered rumors, but now the news tends to come straight from the horse's mouth. And in some cases, it can draw plenty of ire, as Gina Carano has found out.