There’s a controversy brewing around the DCEU’s upcoming Blue Beetle. A character, who is supposed to be a crazy conspiracy theorist, calls Batman a fascist in the trailer. Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem, considering the character speaking. The
director saw fit to throw gas on the spark, and paint the film as another ‘own the chuds’ project, as though it’s still 2016.
Warner was already facing a challenge with this movie. The DCEU is a narrative dead end, and their Flashpoint movie that obsoletes it is coming out first. They needed to give people a reason to show up, not this. The director deleted a bunch of his old tweets and privated his account, so it seems someone at Warner gave him a talking to.