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Despite the fact that no person bats an eyelid when Frances McDormand exhibits up in a Coen brothers film, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach collaborate on their newest venture, Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone re-team for yet one more tedious comedy, or John Krasinski builds a whole Quiet Place universe round Emily Blunt, sure sections of the superhero fandom have severe points each time Jennifer Holland pops up in a James Gunn venture.
Nepotism is the muse of the very trade, however as a result of the Guardians of the Galaxy director has constructed a status for casting his closest pals in nearly 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 stick with beat him over the pinnacle with.
Whereas the co-CEO did make some extent 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 is perhaps higher off omitting her from Superman: Legacy fully, and it’s acquired 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, with The Suicide Squad cratering on the field workplace to lose Warner Bros. a fortune, earlier than Black Adam subjected Dwayne Johnson to the largest 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.
By way of business success and theatrical longevity, then, Holland is an enormous fats zero-for-three. The presence of Harcourt has quietly and fully by chance grow to be a curse upon any feature-length DCU providing, however until Gunn is supremely superstitious, she’s nearly a lock for Superman: Legacy.
Then once more, if The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker are canon, perhaps there’s no room within the narrative for Amanda Waller and her underlings.