When we were moving toward Justice League and introducing all of these superheroes in the same universe, it was really important especially when you have a Justice League movie and then all of these stand-alone movies in between to have a timeline, to have a framework of where youre going from A to B. If we knew where the characters were going, we knew where they could fit in. And we wanted them to feel consistent, because its the same universe.
But we also Zack and I have a very filmmaker-driven company [Cruel and Unusual Films], and we didnt want to dictate to directors what they could or couldnt do. So we felt like, if we had an outline, we could then give the directors the latitude to have the tone be different between the films, and to really make the films their own. So you have, like, a David Ayer whose tone is so different in his film Suicide Squad from what Pattys doing in Wonder Woman. It gives them a lot of freedom, but were always communicating with each other if we change what a characters doing or where they are, so it all makes sense in the world.
