Originally published November 5, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
Back in April, it was revealed that Warner Bros. has decided to adopt a “filmmaker-driven” approach to its DC Extended Universe, giving directors control over their individual projects, as opposed to the producer-led Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Now, speaking to Collider, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice producer Charles Roven has given some insight into the set-up at Warner Bros., revealing that he’s part of a DC Brain Trust that also includes Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, and DC’s CCO Geoff Johns.
“I think also very much involved in that brain trust is John Berg, who is the executive vice president at Warner Bros. I would say the Snyders, myself, John Berg, and Geoff Johns would be sort of that Brain Trust… I’m working with great people. They’re all really great people. And not that we don’t—there are many times we agree, and there’s many times we don’t agree [and] we work it out.”
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Roven then went on to explain how the Brain Trust works in tandem with the filmmakers on each of the DC projects:
“The other thing that I really love about what we’re doing is we’re also bringing in really talented other filmmakers and having them come in and create—I call it the sandbox. We’ve got this sandbox of the Justice League DC characters, and we are hoping to create—this series of movies that we’ve announced are somewhat interlinked. The characters move at a throughline that hopefully will take us all the way to Justice League 2, but they also can interact in the other films as well in some way. So if, for example, The Flash movie or the Aquaman film is gonna come out after Justice League 1, it’s not gonna be a completely different character; that character will have evolved from Justice League 1. Wonder Woman, when we see her in Justice League 1, will have evolved from Batman v Superman. Unless we decide that in one of these stories we’re gonna do something that happened in the past and have it be more of an origination story, in which case you’ll realize how that character became what they were in the movie that they were first introduced.”
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Warner Bros. has Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad set for next year, followed by Wonder Woman and Justice League Part One in 2017, The Flash and Aquaman in 2018, Shazam and Justice League Part Two in 2019, and Cyborg and Green Lantern Corps in 2020.
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