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When announcing the first projects for the DCU in January 2023, Gunn said any project that did not fit into the DCU's shared universe would be labeled as "DC Elseworlds" moving forward. This is the same as how DC Comics uses the Elseworlds imprint to mark comic books that are separate from its main continuity. [ 164 ]
Titles also received new trade dress, with those "that tie in clearly to our larger DC Universe" having a "DCU logo on them" in addition to corner boxes with icons of the characters to help identify the family of titles; titles outside the DCU, such as Injustice: Gods Among Us and DC Bombshells would simply have the DC logo on them.
DCU may refer to: D.C. United , an American professional soccer team based in Washington, D.C., United States DC Universe , the fictional universe that serves as a setting for DC Comics stories
1 Superman: Doomsday: September 21, 2007 Standalone "The Death of Superman" 2 Justice League: The New Frontier: February 26, 2008 Standalone DC: The New Frontier: 3 Batman: Gotham Knight: July 8, 2008 The Dark Knight trilogy [3] Batman: "The Batman Nobody Knows" 4 Wonder Woman: March 3, 2009 Standalone Wonder Woman: "Gods and Mortals" 5
[1] [46] On January 31, 2023, Gunn and Safran unveiled the first projects from their DCU slate, which begins with Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. The first project was Creature Commandos, which was expected to be released as an "aperitif" for the DCU before the film Superman (2025), [1] [10] with some characters from the series appearing in ...
DC Studios is an American film and television production company that is a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). It is responsible for the production of live-action and animated films and television series, as well as video games, based on characters from the American comic book publisher DC Comics, primarily as part of its flagship media ...
[1] [2] [3] Keith Staskiewicz, writing for Entertainment Weekly, jokingly coined the term "DC Extended Universe" (DCEU) in an article about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice on July 1, 2015. [4] [5] This term and the abbreviation DCEU quickly spread among the press and fans who took it as the official name of the franchise over the following ...
In October 2018, James Gunn was hired to direct a standalone sequel to Suicide Squad, [157] later titled The Suicide Squad (2021). [158] This came after Gunn's dismissal from his role as director of the MCU film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), amid the resurfacing of offensive remarks made by him on Twitter years prior. [159]