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Last year we saw that Dwayne Johnson cared deeply about the future of the DCEU and Black Adam. But after an attack from all sides about the poor box office numbers, Johnson left the franchise. The box office result also led Warner Bros. Discovery to sideline Johnson’s ideas for the DCEU’s future and instead hire two new faces, James Gunn and Peter Safran.
While both of them are working on a new slate of movies, starting from Superman: Legacy in 2025, the latest DCEU movie’s box office results are in, and the fans are blaming Warner Bros. Discovery for it.
Reports show that Black Adam will out-perform The Flash at the box office
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The Hollywood Handle and many other news outlets reported that The Flash’s theatrical run will end with lesser box office numbers than Black Adam. To this, some fans also added that the Dwayne Johnson-led movie made more money than the two DCEU movies released this year.
‘THE FLASH’ will end its theatrical run with a lower box office than ‘BLACK ADAM’.
Read our review: https://t.co/CK44txN785 pic.twitter.com/x065rNjnmE
— The Hollywood Handle (@hollywoodhandle) July 2, 2023
When Johnson was being bombarded by news outlets, Warner Bros. Discovery took a step back and chose to ignore DJ’s idea in favor of hiring new people. In interviews and on the red carpet of the Black Adam premiere, we got a lot of ideas that Johnson wanted to incorporate into his new hierarchy of the DCEU.
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While we will never see Johnson’s movie ideas, many fans are excited about Gunn’s new slate of movies. But before that, let’s see what fans think about these new box office numbers news reports.
Fans brutally tear down James Gunn and WB for sidelining Dwayne Johnson from the DCEU
But what did the fans have to think about this new revelation about The Flash’s box office numbers? While some fans were ready to save The Flash when the movie’s box office weekend numbers were depressing. But the tone of fans has changed drastically about The Flash since then.
This fan is calling Warner Bros. Discovery a dirty studio that is tasting karma for sidelining Johnson’s ideas.
Warner Bros. embarrassed The Rock in the trades because of $400M (Not that it's justifiable even if it made $3M) so they can push Gunn's name
Now The Flash & Fury Of The Gods combined will only manage to match Black Adam box office
Karma for being a dirty studio https://t.co/VtmRkcZolS
— Unbiased Snyder Fan (@snyder_all) July 3, 2023
This fan wants Warner Bros. Discovery to be ashamed of its actions.
Be ashamed WBD, be ashamed https://t.co/qUutcLwlqw
— Slothyy (Sukuna in 6) (@ItssSlothyy) July 3, 2023
People didn’t like that box office numbers were the reason Johnson’s plans were ignored.
That's a wild result after WBD smeared Dwayne in the trades for Gunn's DCU takeover… pic.twitter.com/HgmBsCer2D
— OrionAnakari⚡ (@OrionAnakaris) July 3, 2023
This fan thinks listening to Johnson would’ve saved Warner Bros. Discovery from this result.
This could've gone so differently if they'd just listened!
— 🃏Mr J🃏 (@jokerdaddy23) July 3, 2023
The Rock pulling up to the next wbd board meeting after every dc film this year performs below black adam https://t.co/3nLgxsDg45 pic.twitter.com/Wd4He79LEW
— Rex (@Rex_Bats) July 3, 2023
This fan just puts everything into context about the two movies’ differences.
Dwayne played a pretty unknown character without a previously established character (like Batman) helping the movie out, and his movie made more money than The Flash.
If this doesn't tell you that Dwayne is a major draw on his own, I don't know what will. https://t.co/xvOPsMGeIr
— Duhlorean (@Duhlorean98) July 3, 2023
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Hey, @JamesGunn, still think leaving #HenryCavillSuperman out was a good idea? https://t.co/P5dYQPqnNH
— Alberto ⚽️🇲🇽 (@RickHunter7) July 3, 2023
It is pretty evident that there is an enormous chunk of DC’s fanbase direly wanting to see Johnson’s idea of the DCEU. While we won’t see that anytime soon, James Gunn is surely locked and loaded with his 2025 revamp of the movies. It would be fun to see what is the response of the fanbase to Gunn’s movies.
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Tell us what you think of this response from the fanbase in the comments below.