In the past few weeks, Warner Bros.’ DCEU has been receiving a wave of negative publicity fueled by the widespread critical panning of both Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. Even before their respective releases, reports coming out did not cast a good reflection on the DCEU or its future. These reports ranged from multiple writers signing on for competing scripts to studio interfering with the Suicide Squad editing process. Recently, an “open letter” written by an ‘angry” former WB employee who wrote under the name “Gracie Law” to WB CEO Kevin Tsujihara said Wonder Woman is a mess, and that the studio was trying to hide it “behind the great trailer.”

But a lot of these criticisms don’t come without their counter arguments, as we have seen from the cast of Suicide Squad and now Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins, who is responding to that open letter that claims Wonder Woman is “a mess.” More on the story below.

Woah, just saw this press about WW having problems. Are they serious? This is some made up bs right here. Made up! Produce a source, anyone.

— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) August 12, 2016

Zero about the movie we are making has been called a mess by anyone in the know. Fact.

— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) August 12, 2016

This wouldn’t be the first time that a director has come to the defense of a film they were working on. However, it isn’t exactly surprising to hear that yet another DCEU film might already be in trouble. The aforementioned reports being released on the same weekend or day of the film’s release imply that the studio is having its issues, and matters can only get worse when the general audience doesn’t respond well to the film and the box office numbers quickly dip.

Despite BvS and Suicide Squad‘s strong openings, they quickly lost legs in the following weeks since their release, with the former falling short of the studio’s box office expectations. Many critics say that Wonder Woman is going to have to be beyond spectacular for them to have any faith in the DCEU. So it is a bit disheartening to hear that Wonder Woman is already receiving bad buzz. But if the buzz is truly as bad as Law says it is, then how many more times are the general audience going to let WB’s DCEU mistakes slide?

A common criticism of the DCEU is that it doesn’t have strong leadership, but that was long before Geoff Johns and Jon Berg were brought in to do some course correction. Some other signs that WB was trying to right the ship was when tArgo scribe Chris Terrio was brought in to polish the BvS script – which may explain why portions of the film involving Batman were the only good thing about the movie. Terrio would then be hired to write Justice League, while Ben Affleck will serve as an executive producer. Let’s not forget that WB also hired James Wan to direct Aquaman. Wan was behind the first two Conjuring films, both of which were sleeper hits, and he served as a producer on Lights Out, which was also a sleeper hit and well received by critics.

So it is not as though WB isn’t learning from their mistakes. Recent hirings have shown us they are at least trying to do some course correction. And despite our negative reviews of the DCEU films, we would like that streak to end. We want Wonder Woman to be good. But we should also keep our expectations in check, because as DCEU marketing history has shown us, just because a trailer looks good doesn’t mean the film is a reflection of that.