10 Lessons The DCU Can Learn From DC’s Biggest Movie Mistakes

DC’s forthcoming shared movie universe reboot – the DC Universe, can benefit from paying attention to the biggest mistakes made in older DC movie adaptations. The DCU’s predecessor, the DC Extended Universe, was a divisive franchise, for better or worse, having been created to compete with the game-changing Marvel Cinematic Universe and trying to mimic some of its aspects while distinguishing itself as a different franchise in other ways. Despite having a degree of loyal viewership, the DCEU movie timeline did not match the success of the MCU, and a string of critical and commercial failures, combined with new leadership, resulted in a now imminent soft-reboot.