Warner Bros. Producer Discloses DC Extended Universe 'Brain Trust' and How They Are Building Their Super Hero World



Marvel Studios is a well-oiled machine. Fact.

Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment are in the process of becoming a well-oiled machine. Fact.

But not many know how WB and DC are working at creating and developing their own super hero movie universe. Until now.

Charles Roven (pictured above with Deborah and Zack Snyder) — who has been the producer on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, MAN OF STEEL, BATMAN V. SUPERMAN, SUICIDE SQUAD and WONDER WOMAN — has disclosed to Collider who the "brain trust" at WB and DC are as well as their process of creating the DC Extended Universe that begun with MAN OF STEEL and will continue next year with BvS and SUICIDE SQUAD.

"I would say the Snyders, myself, John Berg [WB executive VP], and Geoff Johns [DC's CCO] would be sort of that Brain Trust… I’m working with great people. They’re all really great people. And not that we don’t—there are many times we agree, and there’s many times we don’t agree [and] we work it out.”

Rovan, then, talks about the process of bringing in filmmakers to play in the DCEU "sandbox" and how this may slightly change the initial timeline and concepts of building the DC super hero movie universe, but in a good way.

“The other thing that I really love about what we’re doing is we’re also bringing in really talented other filmmakers and having them come in and create—I call it the sandbox. We’ve got this sandbox of the Justice League DC characters, and we are hoping to create—this series of movies that we’ve announced are somewhat interlinked. The characters move at a throughline that hopefully will take us all the way to Justice League 2, but they also can interact in the other films as well in some way. 

In case that's a bit confusing, here's further clarification from Rovan using the DC movies as the example.

“So if, for example, The Flash movie or the Aquaman film is gonna come out after Justice League 1, it’s not gonna be a completely different character; that character will have evolved from Justice League 1. Wonder Woman, when we see her in Justice League 1, will have evolved from Batman v Superman. Unless we decide that in one of these stories we’re gonna do something that happened in the past and have it be more of an origination story, in which case you’ll realize how that character became what they were in the movie that they were first introduced.”