History of The DCEU Redux

If you're at all curious as to how I got to this idea, well, let me take you back to the very beginning, and how it morphed into what it is now.

## 2016

This initially started as a fun episode idea for the Arrowverse shows. I was very upset with these shows not being comic accurate in a good way. Where it takes what makes these characters great in the comics and builds upon that or putting a spin on it. Green Arrow (or I think at the time he was still just 'The Arrow') was pretty much Batman with a bow and arrow, Supergirl was pretty much just a 20 something with super powers, and The Flash was kinda whiny and needed a ton of help from the people around him. With that, not much has changed. So I wanted to have more comic accurate characters meet our heroes in their own fun little adventure. The characters and the world I entitled **Earth-1000**. It was just a couple of fan stories I made because I thought it would be fun to get the characters we all know and love on the small screen, or even the big screen.

## Early-Mid 2017

I decided to take the idea of Earth-1000 and flesh it out into a television series called *World's Finest* as it would be more of a show about the various heroes rather than just the Justice League or one hero. I did casting, as well as some background history of that world. I was also going to make them veterans as I felt the idea of origin stories and how they became the heroes that we know them as, as boring and repetitive. Have them be around a while and show the characters we love to see. I tinkered with this idea for a while. At around the same time, I was very upset with how the DCEU was turning out after the failures of *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice* and *Suicide Squad* so I fed my anger with that into this idea as well.

## Late 2017

Then, in late August of the same year, I decided to use my various ideas of Earth-1000 and feed them into an improved DCEU. I didn't have a name for this but we'll call this prototype idea *DCEU Phases* (because that's what I named the Word document, haha). So, Phases pretty much took the then slate of the DCEU and incorporated my own ideas into it. So it took the movies we got, like *Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman,* and *Justice League,* and then future films (at the time) which were *Aquaman, Shazam!,* and *Wonder Woman 1984,* and incorporated what the future of the DCEU could be with films like *The Flash, Cyborg* and *Green Lantern Corps.* The vision was very haphazard and riddled with inconsistencies. It was just a very ridiculous hackjob no matter which way you look at it. But I was kind of just throwing various ideas against the wall seeing what could stick. Despite this though I pretty much kept continuing with this idea in the background while my life continued. As well as continuing Earth-1000 as its own separate project.

## 2019

Since I kept changing the actual movies from what we got to what we should've gotten, I decided to go back to the beginning and completely overhaul the DCEU. Just make it into my own baby. This was the original *DCEU Redux* but not the version I am doing currently. This version was all movies and I feel as though a rush to the finish line instead of taking its time and developing various characters. It had more of a plan to it than Phases, but it was still a bit of a hackjob. I tweaked and tweaked this version, and I eventually posted everything on a site called MyCast which is all about fancasting. A few screw ups along the way, but it was finally a version I was happy with... until, another idea sparked.

## 2020

At the beginning of 2020, I got the idea to really make the DCEU an extended universe and extend it into various media that isn't just movies but TV Shows, mini-series, and possibly books as well. As well as not being a race to the finish line, and develop the characters I had. So, I tweaked and tweaked this version, until I was genuinely happy with this version. I also made another account on MyCast to showcase my ideas in March. Then in June, I started making videos to showcase my idea as well. But then, with the lockdown, I had a bit more free time to work on it, and I think around this time I was really getting into *What if Doctor Who Wasn't Axed?* after seeing some videos about it a couple months before. I was genuinely intrigued by the idea and started to really get into the *DCEU Project* or the new *DCEU Redux*. Lots of casting, history, directors, box office revenue, and even trivia about the production. It was around this time where I decided to finally make a wiki about my ideas, and this is where we are at right now.