BHC Exclusive: Spoiler Details on the JLA Movie’s Storyline!

[KBX]

I love Bruce/Clark as any fanboy, but its time for me to see someone else in the big screen....

...way past overdue if you ask me....

 

[Dark Knight]

One thing I still don't get is I still don't understand the fanboys inner obsession when it comes to box office.

It doesn't help fanboys pockets....it's just helps studios and shareholders get richer and richer. Along with making overpaid drug and alchohol addicted actors get rich as well?

 

[KBX]

I dunno... maybe they are just using it as proof or a fallback option saying this was a good movie, here are reasons why...

 

[I Am The Knight]

One thing I still don't get is I still don't understand the fanboys inner obsession when it comes to box office.

It doesn't help fanboys pockets....it's just helps studios and shareholders get richer and richer. Along with making overpaid drug and alchohol addicted actors get rich as well?

Well, good box office nowadays means instant sequel. Fanboys also try to use it to back up their arguments when they say that a certain movie is "good" or "bad". Wich is ridiculous.

 

[The Guard]

It's amusing to see fanboys labeling other people fanboys. And it's amusing to see people still unable to accept the fact that WB won't make 8 solo films, and would rather use their characters this way for now.

 

[Dotten]

Thats the thing, if this movie doesn't get made, there is a good chance that we will never get a Green Lantern movie or Flash, WW also.

A JL film is apparently the best way for those movies to ever get made....

You nailed it there.

All this whining about a Green Lantern, The Flash etc movie. It's absurd. It's like demanding that Wolverine and Magneto was made before The X-Men. If JL is a success then one can hope for a Green Lantern movie, just like X-men managed to build the grounds for a Wolverine-movie.

All the people out there wanting a Wonder Woman, Green Lantern og The Flash movie should be cheering and celebrating the JL movie.

 

[TheLongestDay]

You nailed it there.

All this whining about a Green Lantern, The Flash etc movie. It's absurd. It's like demanding that Wolverine and Magneto was made before The X-Men. If JL is a success then one can hope for a Green Lantern movie, just like X-men managed to build the grounds for a Wolverine-movie.

All the people out there wanting a Wonder Woman, Green Lantern og The Flash movie should be cheering and celebrating the JL movie.

But what people are worried about is if this movie bombs then the solo movies might not get made

 

[The Batman]

One thing I still don't get is I still don't understand the fanboys inner obsession when it comes to box office.

its akin to whining just because certain movies wont have certain actors, i suppose...

 

[The Batman]

And it's not like it's being done badly so far.

I mean, if it was being helmed by Paul Anderson and produced by Jon Peters, I could see being negative about it. But it's not. So far, it's gotten a good director, and pretty good producers. As best as we can tell at the moment, it's going perfectly fine.

There is no reason to be whining about this movie...unless you had unrealistic expectations about it from the start....

 

[Dr. Fate]

I love Bruce/Clark as any fanboy, but its time for me to see someone else in the big screen....

...way past overdue if you ask me....

Agreed.

 

[Dotten]

But what people are worried about is if this movie bombs then the solo movies might not get made

You ain't gonna win if you don't play the game. That's just the rules of the game.

 

[hame4479]

You nailed it there.

All this whining about a Green Lantern, The Flash etc movie. It's absurd. It's like demanding that Wolverine and Magneto was made before The X-Men. If JL is a success then one can hope for a Green Lantern movie, just like X-men managed to build the grounds for a Wolverine-movie.

All the people out there wanting a Wonder Woman, Green Lantern og The Flash movie should be cheering and celebrating the JL movie.

No it isn't because those are x-men from the x-universe. Marvel has made like what 12 or 13 superhero movies. DC has 2. DC has alot of characters that would be capable of holding their own movie if given the chance. GL and Flash could easily have their own flicks. Just like Ironman and Ghost Rider have their own flicks. These heroes all have their own books and years and years worth of storylines to pull from. The JL are not the X-Men they are DC comics biggest heroes. So you really can't make that comparison.

 

[dark_b]

You nailed it there.

All this whining about a Green Lantern, The Flash etc movie. It's absurd. It's like demanding that Wolverine and Magneto was made before The X-Men. If JL is a success then one can hope for a Green Lantern movie, just like X-men managed to build the grounds for a Wolverine-movie.

All the people out there wanting a Wonder Woman, Green Lantern og The Flash movie should be cheering and celebrating the JL movie.

sign out of the forum and run away. t:

sorry but this is way to wrong to be tolerated. you should be banned.

 

[Nokio]

You nailed it there.

All this whining about a Green Lantern, The Flash etc movie. It's absurd. It's like demanding that Wolverine and Magneto was made before The X-Men. If JL is a success then one can hope for a Green Lantern movie, just like X-men managed to build the grounds for a Wolverine-movie.

All the people out there wanting a Wonder Woman, Green Lantern og The Flash movie should be cheering and celebrating the JL movie.

True indeed, but with the xmen you really can't make that comparison. The Xmen has always been a team concept as a whole, they never operated indivisually as heroes or fighters and protectors of humans and mutants. With the JLA the heroes were known as indivisuals and had their own titles before the team concept came in to play.

Now even with all that being said I still agree with you. I think to many are being hard on this JLA movie, but then can support an Avengers movie. Now the Avengers more so then the xmen can be better used to make the argument, but then Marvel is getting some of the avengers their own solo film. Also lets not forget it's also easier because marvel's characters are at different studios where as WB can't throw all these characters in solo films first cause the risk is greater for them financially. I think this is the reason why WB is launching an ensamble film first and then they'll work on solo films.

 

[KBX]

The reason Marvel is making so many movies simply because they sell the rights to a character such as Spiderman or Blade to another studio, and that studio makes the movies. Sony, Paramount, etc. Those studio has a specific time to get a movie down, or the rights go back to Marvel.

With DC, Warners brothers own all its rights, and it doesn't look like they will sell it to a studio anytime soon. So there gonna take there time to make any DC comicbook movie.

 

[Nokio]

No it isn't because those are x-men from the x-universe. Marvel has made like what 12 or 13 superhero movies. DC has 2. DC has alot of characters that would be capable of holding their own movie if given the chance. GL and Flash could easily have their own flicks. Just like Ironman and Ghost Rider have their own flicks. These heroes all have their own books and years and years worth of storylines to pull from. The JL are not the X-Men they are DC comics biggest heroes. So you really can't make that comparison.

Again and its been said before that Marvel doesn't have the same financial risk that WB has due to the fact that marvel took their characters to different studios.

Xmen-FOX
Spiderman-Sony
Hulk-Universal
F4-FOX
Ghost rider-Sony

Now if all these movies had flopped, we're talking over 550 million dollars as a loss if they were all at one studio. Now that is a hell of a lot of money for one studio to absorb and the heads at WB look at the financial risks. It's easy for us who don't have to answer to shareholders and aren't losing a dime to say WB should do all solo films first of WW, Flash, GL, and others. Now say if they did make WW, Flash, and GL it would be safe to assume that each film will be at least a 100 million. If all three flop or underperform we are talking a massive loss nearing 400 mil, cause you gotta add in marketing.

Wb can get around this by allowing DC to do as marvel did. It's just they aren't, which i think is stupid on their part cause they have a stable of characters that will never make it to the big screen because they don't want take the risk of losing money as well not wanting to share profits with another studio. Truth be told this would work in their advantage cause they wouldn't be taking a financial risk because another studio will front the bill and all they need to do is ask for a percentage of the profits. WB will never use all of their DC characters in a film and it's silly for them to hold on to them all instead of letting another studio take a crack at them when they could make some money with little to no risk.

 

[The Guard]

The whole "WB as a single studio" VS "Marvel properties at multiple studios" is a great point that people keep missing when clamoring for solo DC Comics films before JLA.

Also, some here seem to think that general audiences won't understand characters like The Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman unless they are introduced in solo films. That's just not the case. The reason the JLA concept works is that these are iconic, archetypal characters that can easily be introduced and developed and familiarized, even in a team environment.

This "A JLA movie won't work because there were no solo films before it" attitude is just absurd. Sure, a lot of us wanted to see see solo films before JLA, but they're hardly neccessary for JLA to work in context.

 

[KBX]

After WW and Flash movie speculation and what not, the JL is the last hope for these characters to be in the big screen.

WB tried for solo WW and Flash, but it wasn't meant to be. The reason? I don't have a clue. But if JL is made and make millions and millions of $$$$$, than comes JL2 and JL3. At that point I want spinoffs, from everyone... Flash, JL, WW,.... everyone...

 

[hippie_hunter]

Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, and Aquaman need a person like Bryan Singer to give them a breath of life instantly and Warner Bros to take them seriously.

The problem is that they lack both.

 

[BobJM]

I think the only two that will have problems adapting to the big screen is Aquaman and Martian Manhunter.

WW is iconic and will be the most anticipated.
Flash is comic relief and will serve as the "Spider-Man type" of DC.
Green Latern, if handled correctly, is totally badass.

Now, Aquaman could come off as some drugged up hippy who talks to fish.
And Martian Manhunter could come off as some weird green guy in a cape.

 

[az824]

After WW and Flash movie speculation and what not, the JL is the last hope for these characters to be in the big screen.

WB tried for solo WW and Flash, but it wasn't meant to be. The reason? I don't have a clue. But if JL is made and make millions and millions of $$$$$, than comes JL2 and JL3. At that point I want spinoffs, from everyone... Flash, JL, WW,.... everyone...

this is a good point that i wish a lot of people would see. we should all be supporting WB in their decision b/c if we bring this movie down b/c of fan reaction alone, then were NEVER going to see anything!

 

[The Guard]

WB tried for solo WW and Flash, but it wasn't meant to be. The reason? I don't have a clue.

WB is skittish about WONDER WOMAN for the following reasons: One, it will cost quite a bit to make, as writers, producers and WB wants an epic, globespanning adventure. Two, the financial risk is enormous. There hasn't been a real profitable "female adventure" film in a while. The TOMB RAIDER movies, CATWOMAN, ELEKTRA, etc, all fell flat with the general public. So have most of the recent female-driven action films like AEON FLUX and half the things Milla Jovavich has starred in of late. Granted, WONDER WOMAN has the advantage of a built in fanbase because of Lynda Carter's show. But it's still a risk.

THE FLASH went through several incarnations in the last few years. I think WB's concern here is that the return won't equal what it would cost in special effects to make the film work properly. That, and the people seriously involved in the project (Most recently David Goyer) have simply bitten off more than they can chew in terms of project load. For a while, WB seemed to be banking on Ryan Reynolds to make THE FLASH a star vehicle to sell the movie, but those plans seem to have fallen through.

 

[az824]

well, Wonder Woman is also Wonder Woman, yes the Wonder Woman, so a lot of people would go see it because its Wonder Woman

 

[Dotten]

sign out of the forum and run away. t:

sorry but this is way to wrong to be tolerated. you should be banned.

Or maybe you should go practice some more tolerance :P

Most of the solo-movies don't go one living, but die trying. Why is that? Because only Batman, Superman and Spider-Man is big enought to make it's own solo-franchise. And when Superman and Hulk had so much trouble, it's no wonder WB is skeptic to another solo-movie. Blade and Hellboy are the exception to the rule. Hulk and Punisher has a sort of "reboot".

Catwoman, Daredevil, Elektra, Hulk, Spawn, Ghost Rider, Supergirl, Judge Dredd, The Punisher, Constantine, The Rocketeer, Nick Fury, Captain America (I'm evil, had to put it in). The list goes on and on.

To spend 200 million dollar (witch will be the price tag if one includes ads) on a solo-project is risky business. And they need that kind of money to make it good (or they need Bay and his product-placements).

People outside the US barely know who GL and Wonder Woman is. Throw them in a movie with Supes and Batty and VOILA! The whole world knows who Green Lantern is and will know what the deal is when his solo-movie comes out.

It's really not that hard to figure out. If one loves GL and the other characters that are not Supes or Batty, cheer along a JL movie. Because it will make them famous and it will make it possible to make kick-ass GL movie instead of a Elektra type GL movie. Take your pick

If people want the world to know who Flash, GL, Wonder Woman and Aquaman is, then team them up with the two superstars Batman and Superman. It's simple, and it's genious. If you love the JL characters, then cheer the movie forward.

 

[The Guard]

Well said.