James Gunn has recently spoken about DCU canon and has finally made me truly understand the upcoming franchise for the first time. Ever since Marvel Studios launched the most successful cinematic franchise of all time, questions about how comic book movies connected, if at all, have been rampant. DC only joined in on the cinematic universe formula five years later with the DCEU’s Man of Steel in 2013, but the established trope had some audiences questioning how and whether Christian Bale’s Batman would factor into this universe, for example.