DC Says it is time to make good super hero interweaving movies when everyone gets tired of superhero movies.
I know. The world is ready for more. I am ok with them I still watch them. I am going to watch Wakanda 2 today when I get home. But I am not looking forward to them anymore. They are a good thing and I am glad we get them. But there are some real stinkers out there too.The numbers don't bear that out. YOU'RE tired of them... Folks like me aren't! I'm a big kid and unapologetic about that! LoL! Bring on ALL the superhero movie universes!
But even if, what does that have to do with the DCU universe?
Making a good movie does not translate to him being able to manage and hire all the right people over several years across several mediums.
I would rather they prove it with a few DCU films before they plan everything out.
I know. The world is ready for more. I am ok with them I still watch them. I am going to watch Wakanda 2 today when I get home. But I am not looking forward to them anymore. They are a good thing and I am glad we get them. But there are some real stinkers out there too.
Well Endgame took 10 years to build to, but even in that there was a lot of filler. But I love superman and if they can capture the magic of superman that would be great. I like that Marvel has become more lighthearted. DC could use some of that, but they seem to think everything needs to be dire. Superman should be lighthearted fun. Aquaman should be self deprecating. The Lanterns should have some serious humor. Batman doesn't need to because he is a super serious dude.Not everything is gonna be Endgame... Love and Thunder was awful except for Jane's story.
Well Endgame took 10 years to build to, but even in that there was a lot of filler. But I love superman and if they can capture the magic of superman that would be great. I like that Marvel has become more lighthearted. DC could use some of that, but they seem to think everything needs to be dire. Superman should be lighthearted fun. Aquaman should be self deprecating. The Lanterns should have some serious humor. Batman doesn't need to because he is a super serious dude.
What I would really like them to do in DC is discover color again. Everything tends to lean toward drab browns or blues or blacks. Even the tint of the movies on the screen is drab. I think that would be an improvement, if we could have a world of color and not so monochromatic. That may just be a Snyder thing. I really like the original Superman because it is slow burn that builds and it is a vibrant world. They will not tell a Supes origin again, because we do not need it. They Superman picture he used is from a great comic run, where Superman flies to the sun to fix the sun in the end. I think Gunn is great with color in the GotG movies. I really hope they liven up the worlds.The Superman in the comics has some EXTREMELY serious story lines .. people dying, city leveling fights, etc. Yes, he should have JOY in his movie but there's plenty of drama in his stories.
Batman has a good deal of levity in his books... Not Thor 4 but more like The Batman movie ... "Thumb-Drive" anyone?
Agree on every other point.
"He's working. He's a reporter. He's at the Daily Planet. Again, we're coming into a world where superheroes exist and have existed. So, does that mean Batman might be a couple years older than Superman? Yes, it could be."
He's gonna make entertaining movies but I don't think hes gonna live up to the icon status of DC's big heroes.
Who knows DC might have something good cooking.I know. The world is ready for more. I am ok with them I still watch them. I am going to watch Wakanda 2 today when I get home. But I am not looking forward to them anymore. They are a good thing and I am glad we get them. But there are some real stinkers out there too.
In 10 years when this comes out, the overlapping circles of people that 1. are watching Supergirl, and 2. have heard of true grit will be virtually zero.So, I started reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and this is just True Grit.
Like, blatantly. Like someone needs to sue. I’m sure it falls under homage rules or whatever but dang.
James Gunn must have noticed this. You can’t just remake True Grit with Supergirl as Rooster Cogburn and hope no one notices.
1. He's only making one of them.
2. He announced TWO movies based on Grant Morrison's runs on Superman and Batman, and a concrete Green Lantern with both Hal and John.
That right there is better than the last 10 years. And hell, James Mangold has an offer on the table to direct Swamp Thing. You'll have to be doing some extreme mental gymnastics to not be excited for that.
Why would I be joking? You don’t think the movie industry looks at successful video games, and seeks to copy the format?
Logan would never have been made without the Last Of Us, and I guarantee you they’ve looked at how much money Kratos‘s relationship with Atreus has earned, and thought they could replicate that with Batman and Damian.
Thats a stretch I think.
The last of us was using an age old premise of a hardened warrior bonding with an innocent young person, thats been a thing for a very long time. Lone wolf and cub type of story. You can also see it in Mandalorian(also starting pedro in the same role) bad batch, true grit, and a million other things.
God of War re shifted the scope of its ip to adapt that sort of thing because that premise has a long standing appeal in general. Logan has also had several storyline with that as its base line in the comics decades before last of us even came out. He bonded with characters like kitty pryde and jubilee and other each things. Heck even the very first x men film has elements of this
Eh. They made Jackman look a hell of a lot like Joel in that film. I get what you're saying about it being an archetype, started with things like Lone Wolf & Cub, but The Last Of Us is the thing that made billions of dollars using that premise. And money is all Hollywood really cares about. I have absolutely no doubt that someone has looked at the 35 million copies the God Of War games have sold, and thought how they could recreate that Kratos/Atreus dynamic with Bruce and Damian. It's an extremely easy combination to copy for those characters.
Or James Gunn‘s favorite Robin is Damien, and he’s basing it off a very well regarded run by Grant Morrison.
Hell, you’re assuming James Gunn has even played GOW.
I just find it hilarious that something that has been around for DECADES AND DECADES AKA Batman and Robin is being attributed to a 5 year old video game.
Not to mention their stories aren’t even remotely similar. Unless I missed the part in God of War where Faye date raped Kratos, kept the existence of his son a secret from him for over a decade, let him spend time with Kratos to build up his skills. and then Atreus was killed by a clone of himself.
As for Logan, again it was based off a specific comic run. Same with The Wolverine by the same director.
And Old Man Logan predates TLOU. Jackman’s look was based off the comic.
Hollywood very rarely gives a shit what's happening in comics, because comics don't sell. They do give a shit about what's happening in video games, because they make an awful lot of money. Yes, things like Old Man Logan existed prior to The Last Of Us, but I'n pretty sure it wasn't the reason Logan got made the way it did.
And I never said Batman & Robin was in any way based on God Of War. What I said is that there's a very good chance the incredibly successful video game about the relationship between a stoic father and his son might just have had an influence on the decision to make a Batman & Damian movie now. It's certainly not something anyone has wanted to do previously, despite the fact that Damian's been around for years.
Like it or not, video games have far more of an impact on popular culture than specific comic book stories. And Hollywood loves to copy something that's already a massive success.
Every day that passes is another day closer to when those Snyderverse guys finally give up and go away.
Lanterns (TV)
Swamp Thing (Movie)
The Brave and the Bold (Movie)
Superman Legacy (Movie)
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (Movie)
The Authority (Movie)
Paradise Lost (TV)
Booster Gold (TV)
Creature Commandos (TV)
Waller (TV)
In order of what I'm anticipating the most
For me:
-Superman Legacy
-Brave and the Bold
-Lanterns
-Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
-Booster Gold
-Swamp Thing (will go up if the James Mangold rumor is true)
-Waller
-Creature Commandos
-Paradise Lost
-The Authority
My only worry is that Lanterns is a show. I hope it gets a big budget on par with shows like The House of Dragon and The Rings of Power. But since Zaslav is head of the WB, I'm worried he might not give the budget to the movies and shows that have less well known characters
Maybe, but despite being well known, Aquaman was a “joke” in the eyes of normies in the 2000’s and earlier.
Then Jason Momoa walked in, said, “let me show you all how foolish you’ve been!” and starred in an Aquaman film that made over 1.1 billion dollars.
Shazam also made a fairly good profit for being lesser known.
So I’m hoping Gunn can use that to convince them to give good budgets to everyone. This is the man who made everyone knows who the Guardians of the Galaxy were as pretty much zero non-comic readers didn’t know about them pre-2014.
Every day that passes is another day closer to when those Snyderverse guys finally give up and go away.
What I'm wondering about is who the Big Bad will be for the DCU. DC has a massive ton of great God like villains that can go toe to toe with whatever Marvel has. Other than Darkseid, I wonder who else they can use.
As for Marvel, I'm just massively disappointed that Doom still hasn't showed up and that The Beyonder isn't even going to be in Secret Wars
What I'm wondering about is who the Big Bad will be for the DCU. DC has a massive ton of great God like villains that can go toe to toe with whatever Marvel has. Other than Darkseid, I wonder who else they can use.
As for Marvel, I'm just massively disappointed that Doom still hasn't showed up and that The Beyonder isn't even going to be in Secret Wars
I don't think they've ever captured in any of their animated movies how terrifying Braniac could truly be. Other villains around his level are Parallax - which has already been done - and Nekron.
Thinking cosmic, there's the Anti-Monitor and Time Trapper.
Others that could challenge the heroes collectively could be Prometheus or the Crime Syndicate. They could even really dive into the comics and do the whole Infinite Crisis, Superboy Prime and Alexander Luthor Jr. stuff, or even bring The Batman Who Laughs in from another version of earth.
In fact I wonder if we'll be seeing hints of the looming Big Bad in some kind of after credits scene for the Flash film.
Trigon
Superboy Prime (just remove the whining he did)
Anti Monitor
Nekron
Perpetua
Krona
Imperiux
This slate is awesome. Anyone saying otherwise doesn't care about these characters that much.
Me and another guy on another site were talking and there actually seems to be a consistent theme of hero vs anti hero with this slate.
I think this phase is going to discuss the morality of superheroes and how much power they wield with thematic comparisons to guys like superman and guys like the authority, who muddy the line of authoritarian power structure vs a public servant like superman.
It ought to be interesting.
I definitely need to read woman if tomorrow as well.
I admit I'm not really knowledgeable on DC Comics. I read a few of their comics but not alot. I'm planning this year to read the Green Lantern Blackest Night run and more DC in general. I read more Marvel than anything. I have DC Comics app, I might do the full subscription to get everything. As for Brainiac, I got introduced to him when watching the show Krypton. Which is one of my favorite DC Shows. I'm so disappointed that they canceled it. Also Lobo was such a great character in that show
All interesting choices but I admit I don't know who the last 4 you mentioned are
Nekron is the villain of the Blackest Night story in the Green Lantern comics. The embodiment of death and a powerful necromancer and essentially an avatar of darkness since time began, he actually worked with Krona and was able to destroy the Central Battery that charges the GL rings. He creates Black Lantern Rings that can enslave powerful heroes to do his bidding. He nearly wiped out all life by killing the Entity which all life came from but Sinestro bonded with the Entity and became a White Lantern temporarily.
Perpetua is a rouge member of the entities that gave life to the multiverse. She can alter reality on a universal scale, can throw an entire planet between realities at high speed, and can disintegrate matter to such an extent she wiped out most of the New Gods by herself.
Imperiux is so powerful he has the power of the Big Bang itself and can make black holes large enough to swallow whole universes.
My mind was going the same way.I think this chapter is leading to a Kingdom Come adaptation
My mind was going the same way.
I was thinking that they need a big event film to make this really seal the deal like the first avengers did. To make everyone not only come together but to go back and watch the building blocks that built to it.
Im thinking they may do kingdom come but with authority type characters in place of the OCs from that book. Basically superman vs the elite but its kingdom come.