DC and Warner Bros. also have the DC Extended Universe — a.k.a. the DCEU — but no one at DC Entertainment or in the Warners offices uses that phrase… because no one officially calls it that.
Maybe DC will adopt the name, purely out of efficiency — but it doesn’t sound like that’s at the forefront of their minds.
When he tracked down the article’s author, Keith Staskiewicz, he told Riesman he’d just made it up as a joke.
This morning, Vulture published a fascinating in-depth investigation into DC’s attempt to rebrand their filmic universe after the disaster of Batman v.