Far too often, blockbusters fall flat because they’ve been over-tweaked or straight-up reassembled in post-production. While reshoots had always been a common part of the filmmaking process, they’ve now sort of become this ‘crutch’ for productions that hadn’t figured out a concrete plan before heading into principal photography. More specifically, many comic book movies have been affected by this approach, yet James Gunn’s efforts, both for Marvel and DC, haven’t been hurt by it.
According to the writer-director, on Threads (via Variety), behind three Guardians of the Galaxy movies, one miniseries (I Am Groot), one holiday special, a Suicide Squad ‘requel’ of sorts, and a spinoff series (Peacemaker), the secret is to simply… make sure that as much as possible is up to snuff before shooting. Sounds simple, right? Well, it seems like not everyone can or wants to figure that out.
The filmmaker, who’s now busy with post-production on both Peacemaker season two and his Superman reboot for the new on-screen DC continuity he’s shepherding, simply stated he’d “done a total of one day of reshoots on my past two films combined.” Considering Superman is still in the early post-production part of the process, we think he’s just referring to the Guardians of the Galaxy threequel and The Suicide Squad, the movie that earned him (alongside Peacemaker) the role of head of DC Studios.
