Of all of James Gunn’s (fantastic) casting decisions for SUPERMAN (love that they’ve dropped “Legacy” from the title), Wendell Pierce as Perry White may be the best. Can’t wait to see his verbal jousting with Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois.
With Giancarlo Esposito's admission that he has spoken with James Gunn about appearing in a DCU project (a movie, so my hopes may be shattered but hey)- and in full knowledge that popular reckoning is that it's for Luthor (and he'd be an undeniably great Luthor - he's perfect as his voice in HARLEY QUINN) - what I really hope is that it’s for Sinestro in the LANTERNS series. Perfect pairing: combo of all of his great villainous roles – and the opportunity for a major turn of loyalties, from hero to villain to hero again to villain to…
As I seem unable to get this out of my head, I'm recording it here: while I dig everything I've heard coming out of the James Gunn DCU– and maybe it's my decades-long love of the wild stories (RED RAIN, GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT, RED SON, METROPOLIS, NOSFERATU) that came out under that banner – the "Elseworlds" branding for out-of-continuity projects like THE BATMAN and JOKER sequels, etc, feels… off. To me, at least, the current "Black Label" nomenclature used for things like BATMAN: DAMNED, WONDER WOMAN:HISTORIA, or SUPERMAN: THE LAST DAYS OF LEX LUTHOR (very good) seems more apposite. But IDK, maybe there's a rights issue with Johnny Walker or something.