Prefer Gal's suit by far.
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Prefer Gal's suit by far.
Is this the first costume we've ever seen from that movie?
Really made her look like a model for those pics, eh
broncobuster
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Makes you appreciate how right they got the BvS costume.
Speaking of which, with Wonder Woman shooting underway, there's a chance we see another costume for her.
Speaking of which, with Wonder Woman shooting underway, there's a chance we see another costume for her.
GringoSuave89
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Please and thank you.
Yeesh. Gal looks much better in the role (the better costume helps).
Interesting. Supposedly Armie Hammer's Batman costume was amazing. I'm sure we'll see for ourselves in the fullness of time.
Might as well throw this in here, first pic of Wonder Woman from... Wonder Woman
Principal photography is underway on Warner Bros. Pictures‘ Wonder Woman feature film, the highly-anticipated action adventure from director Patty Jenkins (Monster, AMC’s “The Killing”, starring Gal Gadot (the “Fast & Furious” movies) in the role of Diana Prince/Wonder Woman. The character will make her big screen debut this spring in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but the new film will mark her first time headlining a feature. With the announcement that filming has started, we received a new Wonder Woman photo which you can view in full below!
The film also stars Chris Pine (the “Star Trek” films) as Captain Steve Trevor, Robin Wright (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Netflix’s “House of Cards”
The film is being produced by Charles Roven, Zack Snyder and Deborah Snyder, with Richard Suckle, Stephen Jones, Wesley Coller, Geoff Johns and Rebecca Roven serving as executive producers.
Joining Jenkins behind the camera are director of photography Matthew Jensen (Chronicle, Fantastic Four, HBO’s “Game of Thrones”
Principal photography will take place on location in the UK, France and Italy.
Set to open in 2017, the Wonder Woman movie is based on characters created by William Moulton Marston, appearing in comic books published by DC Entertainment. It will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
Major Gripex
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So... do we know whose writing?
I found this thing. Probably bs but this says the shoot date is in June 2016 which conflicts with January 2016 like we've heard previously.
Discotheque
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david thewlis is great. really disappointed with their choices for circe, hippolyta and presumably ares but i'm glad thewlis is in at least. plus chris pine will be a dope steve trevor.
Naw, they recently said prepping to shoot in Q2/Q3 of next year
That lines up perfectly with Roven's interview
Black Canary to appear in JL 1/2 to set up possible Birds of Prey movie?
http://www.latino-review.com/news/hot-rumor-alona-tal-abbey-lee-being-eyed-for-black-canary
http://www.latino-review.com/news/hot-rumor-alona-tal-abbey-lee-being-eyed-for-black-canary
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If the BOP idea is true, it implies that BvS will move the ball enough where JL1 isn't just the Big Seven (ish) but on it's way to a more unlimited-like team. That squares with rumors that Mera will be appearing before Aquaman as well.
Which, if true, is important because Wonder Woman shouldn't be made to carry all womankind on her back. If you know other female heroes (Suicide Squad protagonists notwithstanding) are coming down the line soon, Wonder Woman doesn't have to be the end-all be-all super-heroine experience (which is at least part of the MOS backlash, where people expected a fully-formed complete Superman experience, rather than a Begins-styled story).
The League is already pretty diverse, but adding more female heroes can only help (as long as the main story doesn't get diluted).
Which, if true, is important because Wonder Woman shouldn't be made to carry all womankind on her back. If you know other female heroes (Suicide Squad protagonists notwithstanding) are coming down the line soon, Wonder Woman doesn't have to be the end-all be-all super-heroine experience (which is at least part of the MOS backlash, where people expected a fully-formed complete Superman experience, rather than a Begins-styled story).
The League is already pretty diverse, but adding more female heroes can only help (as long as the main story doesn't get diluted).
I'm a little disappointed Jenkins isn't listed as having a writing credit on this (yet)... that would go a long way towards reducing anxieties about a Frankenstein script or Joe Wright post-Pan skepticism. Making no comments about the writers is a bit scary.
Just another random note... this is the first official DC film press release we've gotten in a while (the last one was the June announcement of James Wan for Aquaman) and since then we've had tid bits from the brain trust like Roven's interview, Snyder at the Walk of Fame, etc. and, to my knowledge, not once has "DCEU" been used in an official capacity yet.
Not that they have to, but if they're going to brand the thing it needs to start eventually. Just for comparison's sake, the press release for Civil War's commencement has no less than 17 mentions of "Marvel"... Wonder Woman's release mentions DC once as an ancillary footnote. I almost wonder if they don't want you to think of it as a DC product.
The series didn't work out since the use of DC characters was heavily restricted at that time.
And, y'know, it was terribly written, directed, acted, and staged.
Latino Review. Take with a huge bucket of salt.
This is one of the reasons I made this thread
A lot of stuff don't buy, but think worth a discussion... just not a thread
Also, final (?) part of the Roven interview is about Aquaman. Not much new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcV3IEypcJk
No Kevin T, Warner's president.
Schweinehund
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I usually don't buy too much into the crew saying positive stuff, but I really think if Affleck went into the project and it was just a cash grab, he would have exited a while back. He doesn't want another daredevil, not after he's done so well piecing together his career from the early 2000's.
From WB's point of view, this is their big tentpole franchise going forward. They've looked for replacements for Harry Potter & LOTR the last decade, where as Super hero films had always been profitable in the past but not a tent pole movie. I think Nolan's Batman and Avengers caused them to reevaluate where DC movies stand.
Anyway, we're inching ever so closer now, feels like it wasn't so long ago when they released the SDCC trailer, now we're a little over 4 months away from the movie. I just wish that Justice League cartoon was scheduled for sooner. At least we've been fortunate that Flash & Arrow have been entertaining so far, and LoT looks promising.
From WB's point of view, this is their big tentpole franchise going forward. They've looked for replacements for Harry Potter & LOTR the last decade, where as Super hero films had always been profitable in the past but not a tent pole movie. I think Nolan's Batman and Avengers caused them to reevaluate where DC movies stand.
Anyway, we're inching ever so closer now, feels like it wasn't so long ago when they released the SDCC trailer, now we're a little over 4 months away from the movie. I just wish that Justice League cartoon was scheduled for sooner. At least we've been fortunate that Flash & Arrow have been entertaining so far, and LoT looks promising.
Variety's cover feature on Tsujihara has a few DC related items:
Again, this syncs with the Affleck report, because if Tsujihara lacked confidence and wasn't steady, he wouldn't have allowed BvS to slip to 2016... he would have taken the profit and praise and run, without regard for the long-term impact of a less-than-stellar film. By not blinking, BvS is going to be a better lead into the rest of the DC slate.
This syncs with the Affleck report on how he's providing notes and involved in, but not hindering, the film making process. Later in the article, "Over a dinner in England and a subsequent phone call, the CEO-in-waiting persuaded Rowling to create a spinoff to the Harry Potter films. The famously reclusive writer calls Tsujihara the one who made the upcoming Fantastic Beasts series happen. Two sequels are expected to follow."
This just confirms what we already knew, film isn't running character embargoes on DC characters (confirmed by "many on the lot"). That doesn't mean there can't be embargoes, but it's no longer the case that film's whims are absolute and games and TV have to stand down if film is even thinking about using a character.
Of course, to be fair, that's AFTER Disney acquired Marvel and relying on Disney's merchandising bandwidth, who is literally second to none in that regard. Prior to the acquisition, the WB was eating Marvel's lunch with respect to merch because it was all in-house. However, there's a lot of room to grow.
This needs to be reiterated because rank is really irrelevant compared to absolute performance. The article points out, repeatedly, that the WB is successful (particularly TV and games) as-is film, even if under-performing.
Again, this syncs with the Affleck report, because if Tsujihara lacked confidence and wasn't steady, he wouldn't have allowed BvS to slip to 2016... he would have taken the profit and praise and run, without regard for the long-term impact of a less-than-stellar film. By not blinking, BvS is going to be a better lead into the rest of the DC slate.
This follow-up talks more about the TV stuff
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/the-cw-warner-bros-dc-the-flash-arrow-1201646970/
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/the-cw-warner-bros-dc-the-flash-arrow-1201646970/
It made the exact opposite for me. Sure they got great choregraphies and maybe a good plot (that, we'll judge when it will be released, it's based on a weak comic for me), but the aesthetic is really bland, rooftops, parking, warehouses... The cinematography is also always the same with the photo flat and grey. And it's a shame, the comics are so graphic, and open to stylism in the movies. BvS seems to embrace that comic and stylism much better.
Too "gritty" for a Flash movie, doubt they'd do justice (heh) to Green Lantern.
I'm not sure if they've done anything else other than The Winter Soldier but based on that movie alone, I'd welcome them doing a DC movie but I wouldn't be excited for it. TWS was overrated.
Schweinehund
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I had that feeling a bit as well, it fit a bit more grounded. Just about everything looked like a real setting for a martial arts movie. Snyder gets a lot of shit for no color but I thought the civil warl trailer looked mute as well, with less contrast that Snyder uses.
I don't know what DC franchise I'd give to the Russos, definitely something more grounded like a batman franchise.
Poodlestrike
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Actually, I think they would do a great job on Green Lantern. Emphasize the Space Cop aspect, tone down the cape... yeah, there's a great movie there.
more on Aquaman, Mera and diversity in the DCEU
On Aquaman's villain
On my Queen, Mera!
On diversity and future projects
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/exc...-aquaman-meras-role-diversity-in-the-dceu-330
On Aquaman's villain
On my Queen, Mera!
On diversity and future projects
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/exc...-aquaman-meras-role-diversity-in-the-dceu-330
I approve of all of this except changing Mera's ethnicity. I don't understand this changing ethnicity for the sake of diversity and I'm sick of it.
If you're going to cast someone, cast someone based on their ability to act and if they're different skin colour to their source material then so be it but this "we want a black Mera because we want diversity" is ridiculous.
I've never once heard a someone go "this movie was okay but if Dave was Chinese this movie would have been GOAT."
But you have heard people complain about the overt whiteness of Hollywood and entertainment
They are just trying to be pro-active. Though, I do hope a red head... DC really hates gingers outside of comics.
More diversity also allows for these films to reach a wider audience globally as well. Also a lot of DC's characters were created a long time ago when the idea of diversity just wasn't a thing. 70 plus years later changes have to be made in regard to how characters look. They're not going to make brand new characters (super risky) when they have tons of stories to pull from. Nothing about the skin tone of a lot of these characters (there are exceptions) is really integral to their stories so they can be changed. White was just the default at the time when it came to creating heroes be they male or female. Sure they might be able to just create a character with a new name and give it another character's entire backstory, etc. That might be risky as well. Just changing the skin tone is likely the easiest and less risky way of doing things. Especially with characters that really aren't well known that can be shaped for new audiences. Almost no one knows who Mera is. "Mera" going forward will be whoever they put in the movies.
I know some like to say "What if we change a black character or asian character. People would get upset there.". People would be because you're removing diversity when there is already a little amount. Also cause their skin tone and background are were usually central to the character's creation, marketing purpose, agency, etc where as with a lot of white characters in the past it really wasn't. Other things were like Superman being born on Krypton are more important. When it comes to characters created before the 70s they're likely going to be open to new interpretation going forward.
I know some like to say "What if we change a black character or asian character. People would get upset there.". People would be because you're removing diversity when there is already a little amount. Also cause their skin tone and background are were usually central to the character's creation, marketing purpose, agency, etc where as with a lot of white characters in the past it really wasn't. Other things were like Superman being born on Krypton are more important. When it comes to characters created before the 70s they're likely going to be open to new interpretation going forward.
Poodlestrike
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Hawkgirl is kind of a hilarious example. She's the reincarnation of an Egyptian queen except sometimes when she's an alien.
it reddit but here it is anyways:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/3u50hd/an_israeli_show_gives_more_credibility_to_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/3u50hd/an_israeli_show_gives_more_credibility_to_the/
Didn't this rumor came from Latinoreview couple of days ago?
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