The co-CEOs of DC Studios, James Gunn and Peter Safran have finally unveiled their new plan for the revamped and rebranded DCU, the first part of a big overarching storyline called “Chapter One: Gods and Monsters”.

Among the new movie entries are “Superman: Legacy”, “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow”, “The Authority”, “The Brave and The Bold” and “The Swamp Thing”. The TV shows include “Creature Commandos”, “Lanterns”, “Waller”, “Booster Gold” and “Paradise Lost”.

The plan envisions one big cohesive storyline with multiple characters and productions into one overarching expansive narrative. Though similar in design to Marvel, according to Gunn the primary difference between MCU and DCU is that the latter is focused more on complex stories.

Gunn said "I think our stories in general are, we want to take it away from good guy versus bad guy, and there's all sorts of really, really almost saintly people, Superman is among them. There are really terrible villains like Gorilla Grodd, or Joker, and then there's everybody in between. So there's all these shades of grey of these different types of character, which allows us to tell more complex storytelling."

So rather than focusing on just the good vs bad formula of Marvel, DC aims to focus more on the grey areas of storytelling, and DC comics typically being darker and more complex than Marvel have a lot of focus on grey characters.

With the roster of productions, the storylines and characters are multiple ranging from Batman and the Bat-Family, Superman, the Amazons of Themyscira, the Green Lantern Corps and even the more obscure characters like the Swamp Thing and Booster Gold. The DCU is expanding in many new directions, and according to Safran they wish to keep flexible in their approach.

As Safran said “The first part of the first chapter of our story that we're telling of our universe, and that first chapter is called ‘Gods and Monsters.’ Many of the following projects are already being worked on, but we're remaining flexible, and we're going to adjust because we're never going to put a project into production before the script is right.”