'This Is Embarrassing and Leads to Nothing' — DC Fans Hit Out at Social Media User After James Gunn Responds to Sam Raimi Batman Spammer

DC fans person criticized a societal media idiosyncratic for spamming James Gunn astir Spider-Man manager Sam Raimi wanting to marque a Batman movie aft the DC Universe brag responded to the deluge connected Instagram.

“I emotion Batman,” Raimi told Movieweb past week. “I tried to marque a Batman film. I couldn’t get the rights.”

That was capable to acceptable disconnected Instagram idiosyncratic sethpelepchuk, who spammed Gunn’s leafage with the aforesaid connection implicit and implicit again: “Sam Raimi said helium wants to marque a Batman movie.” Eventually Gunn responded: “Doesn’t mean you person to spam.” sethpelepchuk’s relationship was subsequently made private.

DC fans person criticized the societal media user, portion besides expressing astonishment that Gunn responded astatine all, fearing doing truthful mightiness person encouraged copycats. “James Gunn should not beryllium responding to these people. It sets a atrocious precedent,” said 1 fan. “The fig 1 mode to marque definite your thought has zero accidental of really happening is to annoy the heck retired of radical with it,” said another. “This is embarrassing and leads to nothing,” added a fan. "At this point, if Sam Raimi DOESN’T marque the Batman movie successful the DCU it’s 100% sethpelepchuk’s fault," declared another.

Y’all privation Sam Raimi to nonstop DCU’s Batman truthful atrocious that James Gunn is getting annoyed by spam 💀 pic.twitter.com/NIgmBLb5Oz

— Buu 🍫 (@PogChampBuu) January 25, 2026

Spamming James Gunn's IG comments is simply a superb mode to marque definite that writer/director/actor you privation for the DCU doesn't get a call.

— 🐦Shawn🤷‍♂️Lunn🐦 (@shawnlunn2002) January 25, 2026

Gunn is peculiarly chatty connected societal media, and volition often respond to questions from fans astir his DCU plans, and adjacent walk clip denying net rumors astir upcoming films, TV shows, and casting. He volition of people beryllium perfectly alert of Sam Raimi's directing abilities, and who mightiness beryllium a bully acceptable to spearhead his instrumentality connected Batman.

For context, here’s Raimi’s punctuation connected Batman successful full:

“I emotion Batman. I tried to marque a Batman film. I couldn't get the rights. I emotion The Shadow. I besides couldn't get the rights to that one. But, um, Superman's ever been 1 of my favorites. Yeah, there's a tremendous magnitude of DC characters that I love, and it would conscionable instrumentality the writers to travel up with an archetypal communicative based connected their character, that's existent to the quality and portion of their existent universe, not thing that disappoints the fans, but thing that's based connected the fans emotion of the quality and brings retired the champion infinitesimal of those characters and their due conflicts, oregon the close challenges for the close hero. If it was a communicative that had a existent travel for that peculiar individual. Then I'd emotion to marque the movie.”

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The contented of the DCU’s caller Batman is precise overmuch a blistery topic, with The Brave and the Bold getting a writer but with DC reportedly successful nary unreserved to enactment retired yet different Batman movie.

Last week, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Christina Hodson is penning The Brave and the Bold, which volition beryllium the archetypal Batman movie successful James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe. Hodson is champion known for penning 2018’s Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, 2020 DCEU movie Birds of Prey, and 2023’s ill-fated The Flash.

She was thought to beryllium acceptable for a reunion with The Flash manager Andy Muschietti, but according to THR, Muschietti remains connected committee The Brave and the Bold but his engagement is not acceptable successful chromatic fixed his commitments to Welcome to Derry Season 2. Either way, it sounds similar The Brave and the Bold is immoderate mode away. THR said “it would beryllium immoderate clip earlier a definitive draught comes successful arsenic the workplace is taking a measured attack to its development.”

So, proceeding of Raimi’s failed bid to nonstop a Batman movie has immoderate fans hoping helium volition yet get the accidental with The Brave and the Bold. While promoting the rebooted DCU kickstarter Superman past year, Gunn admitted "Batman's my biggest contented successful each of DC close now." Gunn indispensable navigate adjacent year’s merchandise of The Batman 2 and perchance The Batman 3. The Batman films beryllium successful a beingness abstracted to the ongoing DCU, and fixed Gunn has ruled retired Pattinson’s Batman crossing over, we’re acceptable for a caller histrion to play the Caped Crusader for The Brave and the Bold.

Last week Gunn suggested fans won’t get an update connected The Brave and the Bold until aft The Batman 2 comes out, truthful we’re astir apt looking astatine 2028 astatine the earliest for news. “I'm babelike connected erstwhile there's an actionable publication acceptable truthful determination is nary mode of maine guessing this,” helium said. “Also, frankly, we're good into Batman 2, and I wouldn't privation to unreality the Batsphere until aft that.”

Gunn past committed to ne'er releasing 2 Batman movies successful the aforesaid year. “I deliberation some Batman and WW [Wonder Woman] are incredibly important,” helium said successful effect to different fan. “But I'm besides not going to person 2 Batman movies travel retired successful the aforesaid year.”

Meanwhile, Raimi, who directed 2002’s Spider-Man, 2004’s Spider-Man 2, 2007’s Spider-Man 3, and 2022’s Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness, has ruled retired a Spider-Man 4 erstwhile and for all. He told ScreenRant that his versions of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, played by Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, “have gone elsewhere.”

“And past aft my 3 movies, I handed the torch disconnected to idiosyncratic else,” helium said. “And I deliberation they’ve got to support moving with the storyline and the assemblage that is present pursuing the torchbearer.”

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