Gunn Out of DC: Sad How Movie Making is All a Numbers Game
Suffering at the Hands of Cancellation
Money is what is used to make these movies, so no one can blame the studios and investors for canceling movies that didn't make them profit. But for the movie fans it's painful as hell.
I just wish it was possible for movies to be made and continued simply because the movie is great and not due to any monetary considerations, like it made so and so or did not make so and so. Just wishful thinking but I bet a lot of people wish so too 🤦🏿♂️.
I've suffered quite greatly at the hands of cancellation. The first cancellation I ever experienced was a 1993 Chinese kung fu movie called Evil Cult. It was my absolute favourite Jet Li movie.
It was not one of his best. The story and fights were exaggerated in ways that felt kinda funny. But it was so charming and captivating, at least for me. And I'm sure most Jet Li fans and lovers of exaggerated kung fu magic movies like that would have fallen for the charm just like I did. But alas it was cancelled because it did poor numbers.
It hurt me so badly to find out I was never going to see the part 2 ever again in my lifetime 🥲. Especially as the story didn't have an ending in the part one, it was to continue in the sequel. Back then I didn't even know about cancellations or anything of the sort. I thought once the story is great and not finished in part 1, part 2 was certainly coming.
I waited and waited, it was years later I decided to ask on the Internet and that's when I got hit by the bad news. And this the begining of my suffering at the hands of cancellation began 🥲.
The next movie that hurt me to see cancelled was the Netflix series Kaos starring Jeff Goldblum. Damn, I really fell for the charm of that series, even though there was one plot flaw I made a post about. It was still great and I was looking forward to the sequel with crazy enthusiasm only for it to be cancelled.
Then another Netflix series The Brothers Sun was another one 🥲.
James Gunn Out of DC
Now the latest cancellation blow for me is James Gunn leaving the reins at DC. Oh! James Gunn is one of my favourite thinkers when it comes to movie making. This guy makes movies mainly for me. Almost everything he does is to my exact taste.
I like how he mixes humour, music, and weirdness to his projects. How relatable most of his characters feel, and the routes he's fond of taking to portray a story.
Creature Commandos, Peacemaker, Suicide Squad 2. Especially the Season 1 of Peacemaker and the second half of the season 2 excluding the final episode.
Then what they did with Lanterns! I even made a post after watching it last month saying that it was the best series of 2026, and talked about how great it is that a Season 2 is already being made plus how I can't wait to watch it. And now it's all cancelled!
I couldn't wait to see what Gunn was going to do with DC in another 5 years. It's so sad how he had to go.
And guess what? I loved the Snyderverse verse too and was gutted to see Snyder go too. Damn, I wish the Snyderverse and Gunnverse can exist side by side. If only movies didn't cause this much!🥲
Well, the bright side is that there would be a new DC universe and it would be fun watching what someone else does with our beloved DC heroes. No matter what comes out of it that is still gonna be fun to see unfold. They better get to work quickly and get us our entertainment 😂😂.
Solution for Cancellation
I've heard of series that got cancelled but uncanceled again because the fans pushed for uncancelation. Like Lucifer, Family Guy, etc. I wish every time a movie or series is cancelled a Kickstarter sort of campaign is launched immediately for fans to contribute towards continuation, and if they can't raise the money in a year or so everybody's money gets returned to them.
Wouldn't that be nice? At least fans should be given a fighting chance. And if they raise the money and the movie gets continued, all profits be shared amongst all the people who contributed according to the percentage of their contributions. What do you think?
The End
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