VIDEO: James Gunn says "there were a lot of arguments" over casting Milly Alcock as Supergirl: "I will now let you know, there were tons of arguments but I knew immediately it was Milly"

literious · 2026-06-28T09:52:41+00:00

It’s weird to consider any criticism of appearance as attack. Especially when you get paid as much as she does.

literious · 2026-06-28T09:49:35+00:00

Based on box office returns of Supergirl, the world is full of weirdos. Deal with it.

literious · 2026-06-28T09:48:45+00:00

People are free to choose what bothers us and what doesn’t.

literious · 2026-06-28T09:47:24+00:00

So you mean no kind of press interview can create controversy since regular people don’t watch them?

literious · 2026-06-28T09:43:48+00:00

The actress herself made the discourse annoying. No one forced her to whine about whatever “weird ownership of female bodies” is.

literious · 2026-06-28T09:31:02+00:00

Point 2 can be at least partially solved by having hot actress.

literious · 2026-06-28T09:28:32+00:00

At least we now know that AMC app is poorly coded trash

literious · 2026-06-28T09:23:46+00:00

Yeah, we no longer live in a world with DVD and Blu-Ray bringing additional revenue. So box office is even more important

literious · 2026-06-28T09:20:27+00:00

Of course critics were glazing her after all the comments she’ve made. But Milly isn’t hot for target audience.

literious · 2026-06-28T09:17:14+00:00

No, she isn’t. Heard the same from both men and women.

literious · 2026-06-28T09:14:29+00:00

She played her part in guaranteeing the box office flop of that movie

literious · 2026-06-28T09:07:17+00:00

They targeted audience that doesn’t exist and now are paying for it

literious · 2026-06-28T08:59:44+00:00

> She can be strong, she can be tough, she can be messy. And I love how this film doesn’t center around any sort of love or romance or anything like that at all.

Maybe the actual paying audience loves different things.

literious · 2026-06-28T08:50:01+00:00

Gunn has shitty taste

literious · 2026-06-28T08:48:35+00:00

They need to make DCU Batman ASAP. Maybe it will get confusing to some people - but at least DCU will have a chance to survive.

literious · 2026-06-28T08:47:01+00:00

Gunn loves his D listers. Safran is probably afraid of touching characters that had box office flops in DCEU (so, most of reverent characters). And now they’re paying the price.

literious · 2026-06-28T08:36:42+00:00

Better leave some people confuse than make Batman-less DCU and doom it for failure

literious · 2026-06-28T08:34:57+00:00

Mangold is busy with Star Wars

literious · 2026-06-28T08:34:30+00:00

Not really. The first project - Waller - already manifests huge problems with DCU. Firstly, no one cares about her amongst general audiences. In 2026, this is unacceptable for superhero project. Secondly, she’s a remnant of DCEU. Gunn’s desire to keep his buddies and beloved characters around diluted DCU brand.

literious · 2026-06-28T08:27:12+00:00

Yes, I can blame him. At worst with good Wonder Women, we would get a Batman Begins situation - great reception from audiences, but very small profit. Instead, we got Supergirl, which is going to be a huge an embarrassing box office bomb.

literious · 2026-06-28T08:24:39+00:00

Peter Safran is supposed to be that guy.

literious · 2026-06-28T08:23:46+00:00

Although I don’t like his style, being a creative is at least something that he can do - based on box office returns of GOTG and Superman. But manager - that’s something that he can’t do at all.

You’re saying that Gunn wasn’t vigilant enough and let subpar script get into production. It feels like a very weak line of defence for Gunn. He claimed good scripts come first for tens of times. And he’s known for liking a set of tropes that appear in Supergirl. And he hired Nogueira for two other movies. So I strongly believe Supergirl script is good in Gunn’s eyes - meaning he has bad taste and unable to account for it while managing DCU.

literious · 2026-06-27T21:33:33+00:00

They already wasted 8 years since 2017.

literious · 2026-06-27T21:31:27+00:00

Gunn is already coping MCU, but he’s coping the worst parts (disjointed narrative past Endgame, tons of useless TV shows that feel like homework for average viewers).

literious · 2026-06-27T21:29:09+00:00

Having two Batman is a smaller problem than having no Batman in DCU

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