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Despite the fact that no one bats an eyelid when Frances McDormand reveals up in a Coen brothers film, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach collaborate on their newest mission, Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone re-team for one more tedious comedy, or John Krasinski builds a complete Quiet Place universe round Emily Blunt, sure sections of the superhero fandom have critical points every time Jennifer Holland pops up in a James Gunn mission.
Nepotism is the inspiration of the very business, however as a result of the Guardians of the Galaxy director has constructed a popularity for casting his closest associates in just about the whole lot he does – a sentiment that’s already been confirmed to hold over from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the DCU – it’s often used as a keep on with beat him over the pinnacle with.
Whereas the co-CEO did make a degree of noting that he wasn’t answerable for Holland’s Emilia Harcourt displaying up in both Black Adam or Shazam! Fury of the Gods, historical past has proven that he may be higher off omitting her from Superman: Legacy fully, and it’s obtained completely nothing to do with the very fact they’re married.
The legislation of averages don’t work in Holland’s favor relating to her DCU outings on the large display screen, with The Suicide Squad cratering on the field workplace to lose Warner Bros. a fortune, earlier than Black Adam subjected Dwayne Johnson to the most important skilled embarrassment of his profession, previous to Fury of the Gods securing a standing as one of many greatest bombs within the style’s historical past.
When it comes to industrial success and theatrical longevity, then, Holland is a giant fats zero-for-three. The presence of Harcourt has quietly and fully unintentionally develop into a curse upon any feature-length DCU providing, however except Gunn is supremely superstitious, she’s just about a lock for Superman: Legacy.
Then once more, if The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker are canon, possibly there’s no room within the narrative for Amanda Waller and her underlings.