Over the last few years, James Gunn has become an integral component to the DC Comics media machine. It started out with him directing The Suicide Squad and then delivering the Peacemaker spinoff series, and now he’s co-running DC Studios with Peter Safran and is gearing up to direct Superman: Legacy, one of the many upcoming DC movies that are officially slated. Funny enough though, a fan has pointed out a fun Easter egg in The Flash that points to Gunn existing in the DC Extended Universe too, and the filmmaker responded to this.
The @HeroesUnbound Twitter account shared a behind-the-scenes photo from The Flash of director Andy Muschietti with actor Ian Loh, who plays Barry Allen as an adolescent, on the set of Barry’s bedroom from his adolescence. As they pointed out, the younger Barry has a Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed poster hanging up, and like its 2002 predecessor, James Gunn wrote the sequel. So after he saw this Easter egg making the social media rounds, Gunn responded with these two words in his own tweet:
