James Gunn continues to ace his role as the unofficial MCU/DCEU peace ambassador

Pop culture really doesn’t deserve James Gunn. First, the writer and director breathed new life into the MCU with Guardians of the Galaxy, paving the way for weirder fare like Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok. Then, after being scorned by Disney over some bad-faith trolling, he agreed to cross over to the other side to helm a Suicide Squad quasi-reboot for the floundering DCEU. Once Disney saw the error of their ways, Gunn had no hard feelings at all, promptly returning to his post on Guardians Vol. 3 while continuing to salvage the franchise appeal of Suicide Squad.

All of this is to say that, while everything else is going to hell, it’s comforting to know that Gunn’s peacekeeping mission to the perilous gulf separating the MCU/DCEU territories continues unabated. Earlier this week, Gunn served—once again—as a negotiator between the warring comic book movie factions, bravely entering into a discussion regarding the ongoing, largely irrelevant, often manufactured (and thoroughly exhausting) “beef” between Marvel and DC film studios.