>>213500773
It's true that reeves is the one getting fucked over in this situation, but that's not the whole story.
>matt reeves keeps getting blocked by zaslav and james gunn, with the excuse of the latter wanting to use reeves' ideas for his own batman, one being clayface, completely stolen and reworked to fit into the new DCEU.
>the penguin, a show that was too late into production to get canceled by gunn and zaslav, ended up being a huge commercial and critical success, while creature commandos, the real first entry of the new DCEU, flopped.
>james gunn's initial line up of projects, like the authority, waller, sgt rock, buster gold and paradise lost get delayed if not directly cancelled.
>later, WB finally gets superman's internal tracking info and they realize that the movie, despite spending a lot of money on the barbie-like marketing, it's not going to get even close to breaking a billion, and that it probably will struggle to even catch up to MoS and the batman part 1 final box office results.
>knowing the optics of this, they order james gunn to immediately do damage control on a variety interview claiming the movie doesn't need to hit 700M to be successful.
>the script of the batman part 2 suddenly gets announced
>now it's being rumored that the batman part 2 will feature robin, an idea james gunn already hinted at for his own batman
so my theory of this clusterfuck is that james gunn and zaslav finally decided to take control of the batman and force reeves to agree to the changes gunn wants, this would result in firing robert pattinson and reeves at the end of part 2, recasting batman and maybe keeping robin's actor using the multiverse, which is coincidentally the plot of peacemaker 2

>>212472420
james gunn doesn't sound too confident about its performance, which would explain this out of nowhere lame attempt to bait rightwingers with the immigration topic, desperately trying to pander to the leftists.