Some suggest that
the DC Cinematic Universe is being rushed.
We cover two interpretations of this concern: first, that not enough time has been spent on the actual production; and second, that not enough time will be given on the screen.
What about production time?
If anything, it has been a long time coming and is something that Warner Brothers has been attempting and developing to varying degrees for years. In fact, the first mainstream comic book shared cinematic universe existed between Christopher Reeve’s Superman and Helen Slater’s Supergirl with the common casting of Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen. Of course, this iteration of the shared universe is the one that people really care about.
We can go back and forth on the arguments for why but sometimes it’s illustrative to just look at the metrics. Rushing means doing something too quickly for the time allowed. Here, we can objectively evaluate the time allowed.
Let’s contrast Marvel Phase One, leading up to The Avengers, with DC’s slate leading up to Justice League.
Visually, they don’t look all that different. Note that graphs aren’t to scale relative to one another. The DCCU timeline encompasses 53 months over the MCU’s 48 month timeline. Aside from first visual impressions, let’s get into the numbers. For the sake of simplicity we’re rounding dates to the first of the month…. read more
