Next month, writer/director is going to be releasing his big “” reboot that is going to be the first feature entry in the newly reset DCU, with Gunn and mega-producer overseeing . The filmmaker is making the press rounds to promote the anticipated superhero flick and is commenting on the atmosphere of what many see as a dying film industry, and has a compelling take on why audiences might not be showing up at the same numbers they used to.

As the co-CEO of DC Studios, Gunn is in a unique position of being both a moviemaker/creative and studio head. He’s sharing that insight with a recent chat with Rolling Stone Magazine, citing studios rushing into big productions with unfinished scripts as an explanation of why audiences are perhaps not running to the theater.

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“It’s not because of people not wanting to see movies. It’s not because of home screens getting so good. The number-one reason is because people are making movies without a finished screenplay,” Gunn told Rolling Stone on his feelings about the health of the theatrical experience.

Going on to mention they’ve nixed projects at DC Studios that weren’t ready to go because of their script, while, at the same time, praising other upcoming scripts. “We just killed a project [at DC Studios]. Everybody wanted to make the movie. It was greenlit, ready to go. The screenplay wasn’t ready. And I couldn’t do a movie where the screenplay’s not good. And we’ve been really lucky so far, because ‘’s’ script was so f***ing good off the bat. And then ‘‘ came in, and the script was so f***ing good. ‘,’ same thing. So f***ing good. So we have these scripts that we’ve been really lucky with or wise in our choices or whatever the combination is.”

This stance from James Gunn isn’t all that surprising, as rushing with half-baked scripts has a lot to do with the jockeying and cutthroat nature of dating a blockbuster in an increasingly crowded yearly film slate. Places like plant flags years in advance for these dates, so that’s when the extra time for post-production and getting a script in fighting shape can be ignored (bigger movies like the Marvel ones or “” tend to be the exception). We’ve seen plenty of big, bombastic movies jump feet first into production, only to see extended reshoots (many movies have reshoots built into budgets)

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Quality over quantity has been some recent advice film fans have been sharing with studios, but many studios, producers, and executives still think they can fix weak scripts with expensive reshoots and extensive editing, which isn’t always going to make for a great movie because sometimes if you don’t start with a fully formed script audiences are likely going to notice no matter how much money you throw around.