DC fans are bracing themselves to bid farewell to Doom Patrol and Titans, after recent buzz that the two HBO Max shows are in line for cancelation.Fans took to Twitter to voice their concern after Variety reported that Warner Bros. Discovery is still mulling over whether to axe both shows. The general tone of the tweets is a mixture of anxiety and outrage, with some fans even insisting they'll boycott future Warner Bros. productions if the news turns out to be true. Other fans adopted a more reflective position, with at least one pointing to Titans strong viewership figures as evidence that the series was never a flop, regardless of whether Warner Bros. ultimately decides to cancel it.
Rumblings about the future of Doom Patrol and Titans are part of the ongoing turmoil surrounding both HBO Max and Warner Bros. vision for the DCEU moving forward. The studio sent shockwaves through the industry recently after it scrapped HBO Max exclusive Batgirl despite the film being in the final stages of post-production. Initial reports attributed Batgirl's cancelation to poor audience feedback from test screenings, however, Warner Bros.' official position is that the project was shelved as part of a wider overhaul of the DCEU. "We have done a reset. We’ve structured the business. There will be a team with a 10-year plan focusing just on DC. It’s very similar to the structure that Alan Horne and Bob Iger put together very effectively with Kevin Feige [for Marvel Studios] at Disney," CEO David Zaslav said.
What Does Warner Bros.' 10-Year DCEU Plan Include?
Which of the DC projects already in production form part of Warner Bros.' new 10-year plan is not entirely clear at this stage, although the status of several films and TV shows was recently confirmed. Notably, Birds of Prey spinoff Black Canary remains in active development, despite being an HBO Max exclusive like Batgirl. Big budget series Green Lantern will also still go ahead, with sources close to the production chalking up its lengthy production cycle to the complexity and volume of the visual effects involved. By contrast, Kevin Smith just announced that Warner Bros. pulled the plug on his anthology effort Strange Adventures, revealing that he first learned the news from Supergirl writer Eric Carrasco, not a Warner Bros. representative.
More recently, reports have surfaced that suggest Warner Bros. is considering what to do with The Flash in the wake of star Ezra Miller's string of legal troubles. The studio is supposedly weighing up three options, one of which would involve killing the hotly-anticipated DCEU blockbuster entirely, should Miller prove uncooperative and their behavior fail to improve.
Source: Variety, Twitter