DCU 2025 releases: How James Gunn launched a cinematic universe by breaking Marvel’s biggest rules

This is because DC Studios overseers James Gunn and Peter Safran appear to be flouting a lot of conventional wisdom about how to form a cinematic universe, superheroic or otherwise. In a lot of ways, they’ve been soft-launching the DCU for the better part of a year, even if Superman felt like the true hard launch. But that’s not the only break from tradition the first sorta-year of the DCU represented. Let’s take a quick look at what Gunn and Safran decided not to do, and what it reveals about their unconventional plans for this cinematic universe moving forward.