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James Gunn Explains Why His Vision for the DC Universe Is Closer to ‘Games of Thrones’ Than Marvel · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Superhero fans are eagerly anticipating the dawn of the new
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  Speaker 2: era in DC movies, led by acclaimed director James gun
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  Speaker 2: which is effectively underway now that the last movie made
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  Speaker 2: without him heading DC Studios, Aquaman the Lost Kingdom, has
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  Speaker 2: been released. D C and Marvel often get compared to
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  Speaker 2: each other for obvious reasons, namely because they're both superhero universes,
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  Speaker 2: but James tells the Inside of You podcast his vision
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  Speaker 2: of DC is more in line with another wildly popular franchise,
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  Speaker 2: Game of Thrones. He says, one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: excites me about DC is that it allows us to
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  Speaker 2: create another alternate history with Gotham City, Metropolis, star City,
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  Speaker 2: and blood Haven. All these different places only exist in
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  Speaker 2: another reality, and it makes it a little bit like
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  Speaker 2: the Game of Thrones world wester Ros. In some ways,
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  Speaker 2: I love that about it. We get to create true
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  Speaker 2: world building in DC. We're not just throwing some superheroes
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  Speaker 2: on our earth. This is one of the key differences
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  Speaker 2: between DC and Marvel. The words of DC Studio cohed
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  Speaker 2: James Gunn, whose first DC movie under his supervision, Superman Legacy,
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  Speaker 2: arrives next year.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.