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If it's him, Big Barda better be there too.
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DC Extended Universe |OT3| A League of Academy Award Winners
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If it's him, Big Barda better be there too.
broncobuster
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People speculated that he's Dick Grayson, The Flash, Morgan Edge, Green Lantern, Jimmy Olson, etc.
At the BvS premiere they interviewed him asking if he's thrilled to play an iconic DC character and if he'll return in sequels. Scoots was like, "well I'm playing an original character and, uh, sure."
broncobuster
Banned
Yeah. Like how Jason Momoa denied he was playing Aquaman for years, saying he'd let people punch him in the face if he's lying, Then it comes out that he was talking with Zack Snyder back in 2013.
Which should be said, Momoa as Aquaman is kinda brilliant casting if only for weaving in his polynesian background to the character. Going as far to have Arthur Curry's tattoos be an extension of Momoa's own.
Which should be said, Momoa as Aquaman is kinda brilliant casting if only for weaving in his polynesian background to the character. Going as far to have Arthur Curry's tattoos be an extension of Momoa's own.
Nah bro, it's totally Red Tornado.
MHWilliams
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At a certain point of following and reporting on entertainment news, you begin to realize that everything is taken with a grain of salt. Official statements and comments can be outright lies. Many times because of legal obligations, but sometimes just to keep a secret for marketing and PR.
But reports aren't sacrosanct either. It's a game of telephone. Sometimes the source is too far from the original thing. Sometimes shit just changes. Sometimes, they're lying.
Best to just not lean too far in any one direction. Take it all in, work with what's what's plausible, and then move on from there.
So you're saying it's Miracle Man right?
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Where are the sources?
MHWilliams
Member
For what? There's like... three different stories going on right now.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Wonder Woman being December.
MHWilliams
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Kenzodielocke
Banned
Really disappointing it will take them so long to release a Batman movie, but Superman fans am cry.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
That's it.
Finaika
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They've been doing it for 15 years. Well oiled machine.
Finaika
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Man, I keep thinking it's kdash when it's finaika..
WTF?!
The world literally don't care. And he's one of the best directors around so whatever, his irreverence is a perfect fit for the Squad.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I'm cool with them denying Gibson a slot purely because he's a racist antisemite even if "the world literally don't care" and he's a good director.
Fuck 'im.
Fuck 'im.
He's a dick, and I hate him personally. But there's no financial reason for WB to not trying to catch him to make a fantastic movie. He's also semi redeemed with that last movie of his.
Squad is a really messy property, like, really messy; it needs AAA talent to make it work again, and I don't think any AAA talent is lining up to direct SS2.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Do I actually have to care about WB's financial reasoning when making my personal take?
He's a shitbag. He shouldn't get work. End of story.
No, I mean, you're right.
Discotheque
Banned
He himself probably wouldn't be interested in the project anyways. That name left the rumor mill a while ago now.
Of the other choices I'm glad Jaume Collet Sera keeps popping up. He makes entertaining movies, tbh I've liked his stuff more than I did Ayer's well received ones. He knows how to make decent edgy thrillers like Run All Night and for PG shit Shallows and Non Stop was good too.
Hell, with him helming it maybe Liam Neeson signs on as Rick Flagg Sr.
Of the other choices I'm glad Jaume Collet Sera keeps popping up. He makes entertaining movies, tbh I've liked his stuff more than I did Ayer's well received ones. He knows how to make decent edgy thrillers like Run All Night and for PG shit Shallows and Non Stop was good too.
Hell, with him helming it maybe Liam Neeson signs on as Rick Flagg Sr.
Inferno313
Banned
Yeah, I won't go see Suicide Squad 2 in theaters if Gibson directs. Just like I waited until Fantastic Beasts was out on DVD to see it because of Depp, despite being a big Potter fan.
I greatly prefer the idea of Jaume Collet-Serra.
I greatly prefer the idea of Jaume Collet-Serra.
I gotta admit I'm not familiar with his work, why is he good?
And most importantly, is he likely to land the gig?
Inferno313
Banned
He was the frontrunner as of the most-recent report.
The Shallows is a great, tight, succinct, suspenseful thriller. I quite enjoyed that film for what it was.
Discotheque
Banned
Run All Night and Non Stop are the best Liam Neeson action thrillers you'll see since he started taking those roles all the time (better than Taken as well)
Shallows is good too.
Shallows is good too.
Time to get excited again! Squad would really work as a low key, down to earth thriller, with Amanda as the very devil.
Also, nice tag inferno.
SS2 is in an interesting place. For or for worse, a certain type of crowd was drawn to it other than the usual comicbook movie. And that's why it was so successful. Not just the diversity, but other factors too. I wonder if they try to tonally change it to a tone more reminiscent of the original John Ostrander comics, would it still be successful? Is SS a brand on itself now to be able to try something like that?
Well, they can still do it loud and obnoxious, but good. Something like Transpoitting tonally speaking would work well.
Kenzodielocke
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For once it would be nice to have a team that makes sense to hire for a particular mission, lol.
Leo_Sagittarius
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It always bothered me that Waller states that a glorified sniper, a guy with skin disease, a guy who's good at throwing boomerangs, a girl with a baseball bat and a guy who's really good at tying his shoes would be the "answer" to the next "superman".
Maybe Katana could do some serious damage considering her sword's magical hablities, but that would need for her to get close, the only real valuable asset would be Enchantress who ironically was the one who "defected".
BlackGoku03
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Well, their original mission was appropriate for them but the stakes grew too high.
First half of that movie was just fine (editing aside), but it doesn't hold up by the end.
Their mission kind of makes sense if not for the glaring problem that Enchantress was creating a giant beam in the middle of the city.
Like Waller trying to slyly clean up her own mess is standard Suicide Squad stuff, but that was too large.
I would like to see them invade a foreign nation and go against Rastum (spelling?) their big foes in the comics
MHWilliams
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Delays and whatnot led to this.
July 2018 was Aquaman, but that moved to December. The Flash was originally the other film in 2018, but two directors later, that's now Flashpoint, presumably with a different premise. It's basically wide open for most of the year and there's little time to put anything in an earlier slot.
I mean they could still get a smaller movie in August if wanted to, but rather they not rush.
But would be cool to do a low budget horror film or something. Really mix up the cape genre.
Discotheque
Banned
They're taking too long on the Flash movie, scrapping it in favor of Flashpoint now is disappointing. But if they do go that route I hope it focuses more on the Flash side of things, like him trying to save his mother and all that, rather than some stupid universe reset to fix the movie slate or whatever.
Like small cameos from Thomas Wayne Batman and stuff would be cool, but keep it focused on Flash.
edit: if they gave the movie plenty of scenes to sell that emotional toll in his need to save his mom that would be cool too. Ezra Miller damn sure could handle it.
Like small cameos from Thomas Wayne Batman and stuff would be cool, but keep it focused on Flash.
edit: if they gave the movie plenty of scenes to sell that emotional toll in his need to save his mom that would be cool too. Ezra Miller damn sure could handle it.
KDash31987
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Man, I keep thinking it's kdash when it's finaika..
I'm just glad someone remembers me.
P.S. I made Finaika's avatar, too.
They didn't completely scrap Flash movie. It just now has the Tagline of Flashpoint. The Flash:Flashpoint.
The right writer can take parts of Flashpoint and use it as an emotional journey.
Inferno313
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Yeah, I think it'll realistically be as true to the comicbook Flashpoint as Civil War was to it's source material. It'll keep the basic premise, but the events will likely be fairly different. There's a lot of great character work they can do with Barry using that idea. If anything the idea of Flash absuing his powers to go back in time and save his mom makes more sense if he does it earlier on in his storyline, when he's still fresh-faced and naive about his role as a hero, than if it had been done as the third Flash film.