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these are the top five reasons the DCE you will not die the DC extended University this shared movie universe with Superman Batman Wonder Woman and the rest has had its share of ups and downs today let's be optimistic and explain why the DC EU is not going away at number five slowing down in 2014 Warner Brothers said it would release at least 10 DC EU films as well as standalone Batman and Superman movies the press release outlines 2016 through 2020 let's take a look at that list starting at 2017 Wonder Woman 2017 check justice leave Part 1 2017 well there was one the flash for 2018 pushed back to 2020 or later Aquaman in 2018 yep released in December Shazam 2019 still on the schedule Justice League part to 2019 not on the schedule there has definitely been a shift in the DC film universe instead of hazily putting out movies there is time to pick up talent like James Gunn to helm Suicide Squad to a more cautious approach could allow for higher quality movies what an idea coming in at number 4 is Aquaman I was skeptical about the Aquaman movie the character has been described as West Thor which is somewhat accurate the film itself was dumb at times but pretty decent as far as I'm concerned the Aquaman movie did not feel like it was trying to respond to fan backlash it was a story about Aquaman it was relatively self-contained shocking I know this felt like a slow and steady approach to rehabbing the DC EU image and number three Joker while this movie does not share ties to the current DC movie universe I think it will drum up more interest in DC movies people will still associate this Joaquin Phoenix Joker with DC's Batman even with no connection to Ben Affleck on top of that should Joker be a success this could set up a whole other set of events Disney did an interconnected movie universe very well with Marvel maybe Warner's trick is fully embracing an Elseworlds label force films and try everything and anything superman Rhett's on anyone and number two is access Warner Media owns all the rights to DC Comics characters and those rights are not going anywhere Warner can slow down production because it is not going to lose the film rights history lesson before it's Disney days Marvel was dying to raise money it sold off the movie rights to its characters to various studios Sony got spider-man Fox picked up x-men and the Fantastic Four Universal grab the Hulk yeah DC does not have this problem it just has other problems and the number one reason that DC EU will survive is crisis on Infinite Earths if you don't know much about DC Comics let me explain the company has a history of rebooting its comics universe on the regular with events like crisis on Infinite Earths crisis took all of DC's different earths and merge them all down all it takes is one crisis in the movies to realign everything we've got variants of lots of characters existing in movies and television a crisis level event could fix the whole thing by cherry-picking the best parts of the DC Universe and just killing off the bad need to recast Superman and Batman but want to keep Wonder Woman and Aquaman no problem I think a crisis event could work for all of DC's properties could it coincide with the our vs. crossover this year maybe do you think DC's extended universe will survive or is it doomed let us know Amaya's Akhtar I'll see you online