DC and Warner Bros. planned a movie about New Gods. However, this was canceled and the director in charge of the project revealed why.
DC it has had a boom year. Although his films have not yet reached the peak at the box office and have not finished convincing everyone, public and critics, a success was highlighted in this 2021. It is about Zack Snyder’s Justice League. The original director’s cut lasted almost 4 hours, but it enchanted many, restoring hope to fans. However, some titles were only planned. One of these cases is that of New Gods.
The film was to follow the plot of the eponymous comic series. In these publications, a group of very superior beings live in Supertown. In turn, those of the same nature, but evil, were relegated to inhabit the planet Apokolips.
Although the argument sounded interesting and would serve to compete with The Eternals, from Marvel, the work did not happen. The studio had so much respect for the project that a director had already been chosen and had everything planned to start filming.
And what happened?
However, it seems that the company realized that launching said film would conflict with other of its plans, which would use another key character within the plot. Everything indicates that the problem lay in Darkseid and the profile that would be given in each case. Faced with the situation, this said Ava duvernay, who was going to be in charge of the tape in question.
“I loved New Gods, which is the project that was canceled“Said the creative then recounting how her agreement with Warner Bros. It did not bear fruit, but it led her to the DC properties. “The studio decided that it did not want to continue with a certain part of that comic book world, based on some things that were happening with another movie in that world. So before I could complete my script with Tom king, they canceled (the movie)”She commented.
Source: SiriusXM