The WONDER WOMAN Script Has James Gunn Very Excited But What About AQUAMAN And FLASH?

The WONDER WOMAN Script Has James Gunn Very Excited But What About AQUAMAN And FLASH?

James Gunn offers a promising update on the Wonder Woman reboot, confirming a script is in development. However, fans eager for Aquaman and The Flash DCU debuts will wait longer.

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By MarkJulian - Jul 19, 2025 10:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Wonder Woman

As the DCU builds to the eventual evolution of the Justice Gang into the Justice League, fans are very curious about its potential roster. We already have the Man of Steel to lead the way, along with Guy Gardner, Hawkgirl, Mr. Terrific, and Metamorpho, but who will occupy the remaining spots?

James Gunn recently confirmed that a new Wonder Woman script is currently in development, emphasizing that the project has a strong creative direction and will stand apart from the version brought to life by Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot.

“I’m excited, I’m very excited about Wonder Woman right now,” Gunn said, signaling a fresh take on the iconic character in the new DCU.

A DCU Wonder Woman movie was announced last month, and by all accounts, the project has been fast-tracked for production.

However, the update wasn’t all good news. When asked about the futures of The Flash and Aquaman, Gunn revealed that fans shouldn’t expect either hero to appear in the DCU for at least the next two years. That puts their potential returns at 2028 or later

That's certainly disappointing news for fans of the Scarlet Speedster and the King of the Seven Seas. 

Furthermore, unless Gunn decides to buck history and completely randomize the roster, the Justice League film that the Justice Gang is leading up to should definitely include these two characters.

After all, while the Justice League lineup has shifted many times across comics, animation, and live-action, one core group remains the foundation of the team typically features the iconic “Big Seven.”

This classic roster usually includes Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash (most often Barry Allen or Wally West), Green Lantern (typically Hal Jordan or John Stewart), Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter.

Though characters like Cyborg, Green Arrow, and Black Canary have played major roles over the years, these seven heroes are consistently recognized as the League’s most essential members, serving as the heart and identity of DC’s premiere super-team.

Which heroes do you want to see join the new Justice League lineup? Share your picks in the comments below, and keep following CBM for the latest updates on the evolving DCU, including news on James Gunn’s mysterious Superman follow-up.

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Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 7/19/2025, 10:36 AM
Nothing about It
grif
grif - 7/19/2025, 10:39 AM
all 3 of these characters have nothing to offer now as far as im concerned. what can they do story wise that has not been done?
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 7/19/2025, 10:48 AM
@grif - there are years and years of comics that could be adapted, but they are more of a gamble box office wise. That said the first aqua man movie made the most of the entire DCEU so you never really know
kazuma
kazuma - 7/19/2025, 10:56 AM
@grif - In live action or just in general? IF just in general sure... if that's your complaint then wtf are you doing on this site? In live action, we've got 70 years of stories to be told.
grif
grif - 7/19/2025, 11:03 AM
@kazuma - ok sell me. its the first movie to introduce any of these characters. what is the story.you cant use what the snyderverse has done.

with the flash maybe some kind of anthology story using a cap boomarang mirror master cap cold and trickster could be good but thats all i can think of.
grif
grif - 7/19/2025, 11:04 AM
@NonPlayerC - so sell me give me pitch for all 3. cant use the what the snyderverse did
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 7/19/2025, 11:49 AM
@grif - Flash - if gritty the death of Iris West. if Zany Human race Wally takes on a group of intergalactic gamblers who make speedsters race for the fate of their planets they could switch to Barry. Or they could start with Barry training wally and have Barry sacrifice himself leaving wally to take over the mantle.

Aquaman - gritty - when black manta murders aqua mans infant son, silly - aqua man and equaled get abducted by aliens and have to fight in a gladiatorial fish bowl, essentially a 1960s world war hulk scenario. Or anything dealing with him before finding Atlantis when he still didn't know his lineage or even after he renounces his throne

Wonder Woman - Gritty - when Diana ritually vows to protect a victim of sex trafficking, the girl goes out and mruders her traffickers, batman starts investigating and being the black and white view of the law starts a conflict with wonder woman (this would not be resolved with the word Martha). 12 labors which is a play on the Hercules myth, eyes of the gorgon when she fights medusa, or after losing Steve Trevor she starts starts working with the department of meta human affairs and starts dating an agent tressler. Not to mention it would be awesome to see her fight Giganta or this circe from creature commandos
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 7/19/2025, 11:55 AM
@grif - that too a full team up against are Captain Cold, Abra Kadabra, Mirror Master, Heat Wave, the Golden Glider, the Weather Wizard, the Trickster, the Pied Piper, the Top, and Captain Boomerang. Having to fight them all at one is way more beleivable than just one or two at a time. Definitely has comedy potential. Hopefully they cast a straight laced Barry Allen and a more comedic wally west
Trinityfan1991
Trinityfan1991 - 7/19/2025, 2:32 PM
@grif - For Flash you could start out with Wally West as Flash with a proper Bart Allen and have him fight the actual Rogues, Gorilla Grodd, or a comic accurate Zoom

For Wonder Woman you could have her be a veteran hero working alongside Donna Troy or Cassie Sandsmark and have her fight Circe, comic accurate Cheetah, Silver Swan, or Dr. Psycho

As for Aquaman I got nothing except maybe give him the hook hand and introduce Aqualad.
kazuma
kazuma - 7/19/2025, 3:18 PM
@grif - Snyders plan was for Bruce and Lois' son to be raised by Superman and become the next Batman. The fact that that is what you want tells me enough about you.

I don't need to sell you shit. You should simply leave this site as you've obviously don't give a shit about comics.
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 7/19/2025, 5:03 PM
@Trinityfan1991 - somehow I forgot about grodd, he might be tied to the weird lex monkey online trolls already (still find it strange when chat bots are already a thing and would make way more sense with him being a tech company already). that would be an easy storyline to pivot to and actually make sense of their inclusion in superman
CaptainFlapjaks
CaptainFlapjaks - 7/19/2025, 9:59 PM
@grif - there is tons you can do actually. Batman can dive into his more fantastical villains again and give us ones not shown on screen yet like mad hatter or clayface. Go very gothic with it.

Superman can give us parasite, myxpitilik, crime syndicate, manchester black. Go cosmic or have clark and lois do some intense investigative reporting dealing with cadmus.

Wonder woman can do her actually going through ancient greece and fighting the gods. Going into tartarus/hell. Visiting mount olympus
Astroman
Astroman - 7/20/2025, 7:48 AM
@NonPlayerC - Gunn said the monkey trolls were not related to Grodd, but suggested he had Grodd plans for down the line.
DarkeyeZ
DarkeyeZ - 7/21/2025, 8:40 AM
@NonPlayerC - you really let some Internet random convince you to sell them on something? I guess if you had time to kill, why not? but it is funny when someone thinks their opinion matters to a point that someone needs to sell them on something lol.
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 7/21/2025, 1:05 PM
@DarkeyeZ - this is a comment section where we engage in comic book talk, ive had conversations with Grif before, but yeah he can be trollish sometimes. but in general I just like talking about about comics... and yes ive had a lot of free time this week lol
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 7/19/2025, 10:40 AM
hopefully there's at least acknowledgement they are around, I wouldn't like guy Gardner being a green lantern before Barry Allen was the flash and aqua man ruling Atlantis
Forthas
Forthas - 7/19/2025, 10:42 AM
If James Gunn is excited about Wonder Woman, it must mean it includes a dance off!
NegativeNerd
NegativeNerd - 7/19/2025, 1:07 PM
@Forthas - 😂😂😂
Spike101
Spike101 - 7/19/2025, 4:23 PM
@Forthas - why he was ever allowed to had that scene in Guardians I have no idea, up to that point the movie was superb, almost faultless.
blitzburgh
blitzburgh - 7/19/2025, 10:23 PM
@Forthas - boo hoo
blitzburgh
blitzburgh - 7/19/2025, 10:23 PM
@NegativeNerd - hey Quinn, is that your other account again
NegativeNerd
NegativeNerd - 7/19/2025, 11:31 PM
@blitzburgh - been here since 2012, and not sure who Quinn is.
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 7/19/2025, 10:51 AM
Both Flash and Aquaman just got movies a couple years ago, so this isn't surprising. If I had to guess, Wonder Woman will get a movie in 2028, followed by Justice League in either 2029 or 2030.
SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 7/19/2025, 10:55 AM
Hoping against hope for new directors, writers and cinematographers for any future films
ElJefe
ElJefe - 7/19/2025, 11:01 AM
@SteviesRightFoo -

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SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 7/19/2025, 11:09 AM
@ElJefe - 😂
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/19/2025, 10:55 AM
The question this REALY poses is does that mean we won't see a Justice gang movie in the next two years if they are considered character that are required for it. Is there any confirmation if/when we would get Justice Gang as to me being three years away doesn't sound unreasonable with with all the stuff that has been sorta confirmed as coming soon.

https://www.thereviewgeek.com/movies-shows-dcu/

https://thedirect.com/article/james-gunn-dcu-movie-tv-release-timeline-order

IF we add Wonder Woman to those lists and two films per year we already have the most likely next two years worth of films (as in five films, ie 30months worth) not counting if we also get a Superman & Supergirl teamup first making it 3yrs worth of films.

IOW, this isn't exactly news is it? If he had said not in the next three or four years maybe, next two means little to nothing as their first appearance could be in a Justice Gang film prior to them getting new solo ones.
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 7/19/2025, 11:02 AM
@Apophis71 - every time you say justice gang it hurts. I really hope no one listens to guys name choice
MarkJulian
MarkJulian - 7/19/2025, 11:02 AM
@Apophis71 - He didn't say they weren't getting "films" in the next two years, he said don't expect to see them at all, in the next two years.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/19/2025, 11:49 AM
@NonPlayerC - Always hated the team name Justice Gang, or anything with Gang in it as either sounds like a bunch of kids or urban collectives oft in trouble with the law, but it is what it is and if they go there kinda hope they avoid calling the film that even if the lineup is that of that team.

As you say, have Guy suggest it and the members pushback on it in the same sort of way the Thunderbolts team did in their film prior to getting anything approaching an official one.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/19/2025, 12:15 PM
@MarkJulian - By which I took it to mean the first time they would appear would be in something like Justice Gang/League or in their own solo films and what I based the comment on and kinda what I always expected would be the case.

I wasn't expecting any of the top five or so JL characters in a solo film of anyone typicaly not in the top 10 for instance or on a TV series first meaning the only sorta confirmed movie I could have seen Aquaman and the Flash turning up in would be Batman'sBnB or Wonder Woman's film and would tend to think they would never have been introduced in either of those.

I mean we already know Clayface will be fairly standalone with no major characters in it, mostly original creations for that movie. If we are still getting Swamp thing would we expect Aquaman of Flash in that as I wouldn't and would they call the Authority that if it had a big name like Flash or Aquaman in it and don't recall either being connected in any way to that in the comics.

The point however was more this article seemed to focus on the team film not happening anytime soon and that team movie already was unlikely to be less than 30months away from release and as those two characters were the last major ones to get a solo film they were always likely to be the last of the big players from the DCEU to first appear in a DCU movie.

What the comment from Gunn doesn't do is rule out hints that the characters exist in the DCU sooner rather than later or even be fully name dropped in films LIKE the Authority where some of the members were pastiches of heroes like Superman and Batman in the comics.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/19/2025, 12:33 PM
@Apophis71 - in the movie , the Justice Gamg is something Guy comes up with but others resist him like Hawkgirl

Have you seen the film yet?.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/19/2025, 12:57 PM
@TheVisionary25 - Nope, not seen this Superman film yet but will ASAP when able and never read a Justice Gang comic if any exist but had heard a team name like that which wasn't DC years back and can't recall where/what it was about. The big seven were part of Justice League whenever I saw them all together in print and actualy couldn't recall anyone talking about a Gang featuring them until recently but I'm getting old and may have forgotten from when reading DC in the 70's and 80's :D.

It was a general comment that it is a daft name for a team, there are worse in the comics and have no issue if similar to the Thunderbolts scenario where one is pushing a name others reject either but all of that was in response to someone else making issue with that name for a team after the article specificaly referenced a Justice Gang team name.

If my lack of insight means my comment is a tad off in anyway, my appols :D
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/19/2025, 1:57 PM
@Apophis71 - oh no problem

I was just giving context as to why it is a bad name in the film lol
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 7/19/2025, 10:59 AM
Wonder Woman 3 had already been publicly announced. There had to have been something in Gal Gadot's contract, that delayed pre-production on the reboot. James Gunn must've been under a lot of pressure to hurry up and get Superman written, and give WB an off ramp from the DCEU.
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 7/19/2025, 11:07 AM
@99OPTIMISTPRIME - pretty sure the studio keeps all rights to green light or cancel a project at their own discretion. At worst they had to pay Gal what she was owed and then write everything else off like a tax write off, same as they did with the batgirl movie.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 7/19/2025, 11:33 AM
@99OPTIMISTPRIME -

That was his assignment. Pinch off the never ending turd and start fresh with Superman, which should be the foundation of any DC endeavor.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/19/2025, 12:22 PM
@99OPTIMISTPRIME - Which may explain some of the cameo appearances, easy way to get out of a multi-movie contract clause for the studio whilst if they moved forward with them being a major character again they can play the 'those cameos don't count' card.
RockBottom
RockBottom - 7/19/2025, 11:10 AM
Fair enough. It’ll give some time to wash the taste outta that POS movie’s mouth and give the Flash the proper treatment.
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 7/19/2025, 11:20 AM
At this point, for The Flash they should do what Justice League and Justice League Unlimited did and skip Barry Allen and go right to Wally West. Barry has been done to death. If Lanterns is going to be handing the torch from Hal to John, this film universe should use Wally West.

To be clear: RED-HAIRED WALLY. The real Wally.
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