DC just dropped a bunch of trailers for upcoming movies (Batman, Black Adam, recut Justice League, new Suicide Squad). Kind of interesting to watch them and see the faces that pop out.
Amber Heard - Domestic abuser
Ezra Miller - Recently choke-slammed a girl
James Gunn - sketchy pedophilia comment history
I fully understand they can't cut Flash, and Gunn is a desperate, last-ditch effort to inject GotG style fun into their moribund universe. But surely in a movie that was being made specifically for recut scenes they could have ditched ones with the sociopathic abuser?
Maybe DC are just taking a "fuck cancel culture, we'll use anyone that we want" stance, in which case, more power to them, even if their choice is assholes. I'm not going to be too surprised though if it simply ends up with them being massive hypocrites.
It doesn't help that Aquaman was one of DCs first "actually kinda liked" movies, and she was considered a major part of that in terms of attractiveness.
So they are clinging to her for dear life.
I think it's more of a golden parachute for someone who they fully support the actions of.
They know her career will likely die soon, so send her off with a big movie to thank her for her work for the female supremacist cause.
Unlike you, my friend, I don't think they are that wise or colluding. Its a simple game of "we don't hold her to the same standards" and "she is useful to us, therefore immune to consequences."
wW was the first, not aquaman