Gunn's comments make a great deal of sense, and should allow each upcoming DCU movie to be accessible. This is an issue that has seemingly plagued some MCU projects before. For instance, The Marvels served as a sequel to Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel and WandaVision. Perhaps this amount of homework is why The Marvels ended up being a box office bomb.

One thing James Gunn has made clear about his Superman movie is that the movie will not try to emulate the dark and edgy tone of Zack Snyder ’s Man of Steel . His movie is going to be very different in so many ways.

Creature Commandos will reference events in The Suicide Squad, but that doesn't mean they exist in the same continuity. James Gunn asserts the latter isn't DCU canon despite its adopted characters and stories.