James Gunn says a new opening for DC Studios‘ Elseworlds projects is currently being developed. Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU kicked off this past December with the animated Creature Commandos series. They will follow that up with Superman,

James Gunn is hard at work creating the new DCU, and after David Corenswet's Superman movie and Peacemaker season 2, he already has a new DC project.

2025 is shaping up to be a banner year for the Man of Steel as director James Gunn's tentpole "Superman" feature film is streaking towards lucky cinemas this summer faster than a speeding bullet.

In 2023, before Aquaman, DC released Blue Beetle. The movie was a massive box office flop and it isn’t part of the new DCU. But the Blue Beetle hero featured in the movie is in fact part of the DCU, and the actor who played him will return in the future in an animated series that will reference the movie, but will be a canon adventure in the DCU.

When DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran announced their slate of films and TV series, the dynamic duo revealed an interconnected cinematic universe: the new DCU. While upcoming projects like Superman,

Along with Superman and Peacemaker post-production work, James Gunn shared that he's been "pre-writing my next DC Studios project."

Superman isn’t due in theaters until July 11, but writer-director James Gunn is already getting up, up and away on his next project. The filmmaker, who heads DC Studios with producer Peter Safran, is producing the now-shooting Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow as the second film in the newly unified DC Universe,

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has revealed DC is developing a unique opening for Elseworlds projects like The Batman to differentiate them from DCU projects such as Superman.

Both those projects were helmed by James Gunn, who also made Creature Commandos, has his Superman movie coming this summer on the 2025 movies schedule, and is running DC Studios with producer Peter Safran.

These projects can be key to James Gunn's DC Studios creating a critically and commercially successful answer to the youthful energy of Spider-Man.

Superman Unlimited will kick off May 21, and will be set up with a “Zero Issue” in DC’s Free Comic Book Day issue on May 3. According to DC, the “Summer of Superman” will include ongoing and limited books for fellow Supers like Supergirl, Superboy, and Krypto.

James Gunn's net worth has steadily risen since he ventured into the mainstream with his Marvel films and as the co-CEO of DC Studios.