From the outside looking in, it would appear that Warner Bros. is in some dire financial straits, with the company doing everything in its power to trim as much financial fat as possible, with those decisions igniting plenty of fury along the way.
The call to can Batgirl when it was almost finished was contentious to put it lightly, but that was only the tip of the cost-cutting iceberg. Since then, we’ve seen Ryan Reynolds throw his support behind Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson as they fight back against the gutting of Turner Classic Movies, with HBO also considering the possibility of leasing out original content to Netflix.
The WB music library is also up for grabs, too, at an estimated price of $500 million, and there are a lot of fingers being pointed in an awful lot of directions as a result. However, because the internet is a place for the weirdest and wildest conspiracy theories to take hold, it seems fair to shine a light on the blame being placed on DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn, and the notorious “Martha” scene from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
The main difference is that only one of them is being deadly serious, and there are no prizes for guessing which of the two it is.
Then again, tracing the gradual decline of not just the DCU but its parent studio all the way back to one of the cringiest exchanges in the history of superhero cinema is so brilliantly out of the box that part of us is kind of wishing it would be proven true.
Needless to say, the SnyderVerse-supporting mob didn’t understand the irony of the latter, which is even more ironic considering how many of them will happily place Gunn in the firing line. The simple answer is that WB’s current misfortune is all about rampant mismanagement, but where’s the fun in that?
