If Paramount loses in court, everyone in Hollywood knows where the road leads.
And I have been told DC fans should want no part of it.
What Insiders Are Saying
Per what I have been told by insiders, DC fans do not want DC to happen at Netflix.
No further details were offered.
But given where the Warner Bros. Discovery saga sits right now, the message lands at exactly the right time.
Netflix Is The Ghost In The Courtroom
Remember how close this already came to happening.
Back in December, Netflix had a signed deal to buy Warner Bros., its film and TV studios, and HBO Max for $72 billion, with the WBD board recommending it to shareholders for months and dismissing Paramount’s competing offer as inferior.
Paramount finally outbid them in February at $31 a share, and Netflix declined to match, with its co-CEOs calling WBD “a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price.”
That was five months ago.
Now the Paramount deal is frozen pending a trial, with twelve states suing to block it and some Warner Bros. executives privately rooting for it to die.
If they get their wish, WBD goes back on the block, and the buyer with the signed playbook, the financing, and the appetite is the one that walked away in February waiting for a better price.
And as CBN exclusively reported, if the Paramount merger fails, Warner Bros. gets sold off in pieces.
The Netflix deal was always the pieces scenario: studios and streaming to Netflix, the cable networks spun off, the century-old studio dissolved into a content library.
Snyder Already Lived The Netflix Playbook
Here’s the part DC fans don’t need explained to them, because they watched it happen three times.
When Zack Snyder made Rebel Moon at Netflix, what hit the service first were the PG-13 Netflix versions of both movies.
Snyder’s R-rated director’s cuts, the versions he actually wanted, arrived months later.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because it is the Batman v Superman story all over again: compromised theatrical cut first, then the Ultimate Edition, which is much better, after the damage was done.
Of course, the theatrical Justice League movie was also released, followed by Zack Snyder’s Justice League.
Same director, same pattern, two different companies.
The streamer that fans imagine as a safe haven ran the exact playbook Warner Bros. ran in 2016.
And as we previously noted, Netflix’s own film chief has said the streamer won’t work with filmmakers who insist on final cut, proving exactly why the Paramount-WBD merger is the better deal.
What Fans Actually Want
The version of the future DC fans are actually rooting for runs through the other outcome.
As CBN exclusively reported, the SnyderVerse is back in play as the De Luca-Abdy era takes shape under a completed Paramount deal, with Snyder saying it himself at the Frank Miller event: “when they let us.”
There is no version of “when they let us” where “they” is an algorithm.
