DC Studios would be a dream come true...

[Sawyer]

Am I right, or am I right? Come on, if Warner Bros. were to create a seperate studio for DC projects, we'd actually get more than one project every other year. And they could actually be quality, unlike the things I've heard about the upcoming Justice League movie, they might treat the project with the respect it deserves, give it a great director, writer and group of actors. I think this is exactly what we need, if we want to see anything other than Batman and Superman on the big screen.

 

[Dr. MIX]

Will never happen, but hell yeah

 

[Sawyer]

Will never happen, but hell yeah

Never say never...

 

[The Major]

Great idea. Just don't see it happening.

I'd love to be wrong.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Yeah won't happen, as much as I want it, and as necessary as it may be ....Remember, Superhero films are for the most part very big budget fare, WB just won't create a separate studio for them, like it would do for independent films that don't cost more than 15 million a piece....And, in a way, WB IS DC Studios. But it's also WB.

 

[TheVileOne]

Good thing a Marvel isn't merged with News Corp or something.

 

[fabman]

Warner Bros. is Studios.

Warner Animation has got it right with the DTV movies so far and with Batman: TAS, Superman: TAS and the Justice League series.

The studio itself got it right with Constantine, V For Vendetta and Christopher Nolan's Batman.

 

[The Guard]

DC Studios would be nice, but relatively pointless, as WB owns DC. WB is not a comic-book only studio. It has a responsibility to it's investors to make many kinds of movies, so it's not going to make three or four comic book films a year. It's cost prohibitive to do so. Deal with it. DC Comics superhero movies will happen, they just won't happen all at once. And in the long run, that might be a good thing.

 

[Raiden]

It will never happen, since DC Studio would've taken up too much money from WB's budget, money that WB would rather spend on other movies like Speed Racer. Unless DC break away from WB, there will never be a DC Studio.

 

[fabman]

DC Studios would be nice, but relatively pointless, as WB owns DC. WB is not a comic-book only studio. It has a responsibility to it's investors to make many kinds of movies, so it's not going to make three or four comic book films a year. It's cost prohibitive to do so. Deal with it. DC Comics superhero movies will happen, they just won't happen all at once. And in the long run, that might be a good thing.

I definitely agree!

 

[fabman]

It will never happen, since DC Studio would've taken up too much money from WB's budget, money that WB would rather spend on other movies like Speed Racer. Unless DC break away from WB, there will never be a DC Studio.

Yeah, and I don't think Time Warner will ever sell DC Comics.

 

[TheVileOne]

There was nothing right about Constantine.

 

[Sawyer]

It will never happen, since DC Studio would've taken up too much money from WB's budget, money that WB would rather spend on other movies like Speed Racer. Unless DC break away from WB, there will never be a DC Studio.

Fingers crossed.

 

[Hush]

The possibility that DC would break away with Warner Bros. is not veen worth thinking about, Warner makes to much money off of it, every time we see Superman on a cereal box, that company payed out the ass to get that right and that is what Warber keeps DC for.

 

[topnotch]

If they wanted to Warner Bros. can get a loan like marvel did to start DC Studios.

 

[J.R.]

That would be the best possible thing for DC films.

 

[The Guard]

There was nothing right about Constantine.

Care to elaborate? Short of the fact that he didn't engage in completely random and pointless adventures and say "Sod off" every five seconds...and his hair wasn't blonde...

 

[Raiden]

Care to elaborate? Short of the fact that he didn't engage in completely random and pointless adventures and say "Sod off" every five seconds...and his hair wasn't blonde...

Well, Constantine in the comics is a blonde British guy from Liverpool, who drinks hard and has a mean streak. His look was initially based on Sting, and you can see how far Keanu Reeve is away from the original John Constantine.

 

[The Major]

Yeah won't happen, as much as I want it, and as necessary as it may be ....Remember, Superhero films are for the most part very big budget fare, WB just won't create a separate studio for them, like it would do for independent films that don't cost more than 15 million a piece....And, in a way, WB IS DC Studios. But it's also WB.

They wouldn't need to be seperate from WB, DC could have their own "label" to produce adaptions with.

This would allow WB to compete with Marvel's film division on an even playing field.

 

[The Guard]

Well, Constantine in the comics is a blonde British guy from Liverpool, who drinks hard and has a mean streak. His look was initially based on Sting, and you can see how far Keanu Reeve is away from the original John Constantine.

So we've got "He's not British sounding, his hair doesn't look the same", and he doesn't look exactly like Sting, which many versions of Constantine do not. By that logic, Christian Bale is a terrible Bruce Wayne.

 

[Eric Draven]

It's not even about the change from British to American. In the comics, Constantine was a cynical mage (rather than an "exorcist" like in the movie) who got by just from the skin of his teeth, would rather run the other direction when faced with a roomful of demons, and would never ever prefer going to heaven over hell like he did in the movies. In the comics, it was always about him staying alive rather than dying and going to heaven. Big character change right there. Basically the only thing the movie version of Constantine had in common with the comics was the name. And they couldn't even pronounce that right.

 

[Sawyer]

Fingers crossed.

Ooh, I take that back (a few months late, but whatever). DC's properties being with Warner Brothers probably leaves them in the best possible hands, but DC needs to stop being so afraid to touch anything that isnt Superman or Batman. They're making progress with Green Lantern and Green Arrow moving forward, but I think they need to focus on giving less well known characters the treatment that was given to Iron Man by Marvel Studios. I dont see how having a DC studios is so out of the question. Yes, DC is owned by Time Warner, but I think that Warner Bros can give DC a studio to focus on a creative direction for DCs stuff, like Marvel has. Warner Brothers has the DC Universe line of animated films, why should live action be any different?

 

[MARVELDC]

Great Idea. I hope it happens.

 

[Keyser Soze]

It's not even about the change from British to American. In the comics, Constantine was a cynical mage (rather than an "exorcist" like in the movie) who got by just from the skin of his teeth, would rather run the other direction when faced with a roomful of demons, and would never ever prefer going to heaven over hell like he did in the movies. In the comics, it was always about him staying alive rather than dying and going to heaven. Big character change right there. Basically the only thing the movie version of Constantine had in common with the comics was the name. And they couldn't even pronounce that right.

Didn't the "Constantine outsmarts the Devil to reclaim his soul from damnation" bit come straight out of the comics? In fact, the only cop-out as far as that's concerned is that after the Devil cures his lung cancer to give him time to damn his soul again, rather than ending the story by lighting up a cigarette - like in the comics - they had him take that Nicotine gum that people use to stop smoking.

 

[The Question]

I think the biggest problem with Constantine is that so much of the Hellblazer series is about life and culture in Britain in general, and London specifically. Moving the setting to L.A. completely guts one of the major themes.