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Our Plea to the New DC Studios Head: No More Shared Universe!

The MCU is a miracle to have existed, and it made sense for DC to want its own, but we're well beyond that. Just make good movies instead.

By Brian Welk

Brian Welk has joined IndieWire as Senior Business Reporter

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Brian Welk

November 9, 2026 3:07 pm

'Superman'

Warner Bros.

The DCU is dead before it even started.

Four years ago, DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran relaunched the comics brand with grand ambitions to build a Marvel Cinematic Universe of their own with a crop of characters they believed to be superior to what Marvel and Disney had.…