How JLA can fix DC movieverse

[daderade]

Here is the pitch: start production of a JLA movie WITH CAVILL as Superman(we do not need more Supermen), for release within a year-year and a half of MoS release. Batman will be hard as we should get Bale but who knows. Anyway, do not announce all the members at first when the movie is announced (it should be the new reboot roster though) Do small film/large trailers(possibly abreviated origins) for each member, and spread them out over 6 months or so. It would give each member some time alone in the eye of the media, save money by not having to make a film to introduce each character, and keep people interested in the reveals up to the movie. Then the WB would be able to make individual character movies based on response for each character(thus not wasting 200+ million on a movie). Just my idea, let me know what you guys think.

 

[psylockolussus]

July 2013- Man of Steel
May 2014- The Flash
July 2014- Wonder Woman
May 2015 - Aquaman
August 2015 - Martian Manhunter
May 2016 - Green Lantern II
July 2016 - Batman
July 2017 - Justice League

-5 years, 8 films
-The budget for each film should not be over $200 million
-Good writers
-Good director

 

[TheIncredibleSk]

Martian Manhunter can be introduced in a JLA film. He truly doesn't need a solo film AT ALL. I push Aquaman back until James Cameron can agree to direct it.

 

[cherokeesam]

At this point, the best way WB can "fix" the DC movieverse is to think small screen.
They clearly don't have a battle plan for any DC franchise that doesn't involve the words "Batman" and "Nolan," so they'd be better off following the proven success of small-screen "Smallville" and try to make (GOOD) TV series for Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and maybe a few others.

Or hell, just make a Justice League TV show bringing back all the characters from Smallville.

 

[Orin]

The way i see it the after the disaster that was Green Lantern the Flash movie, which seemed to be next in line, won't be happening any time soon. After all, the Flash project that is in production right now has the same people behind it that did GL. Berlanti, Green and Guggenheim are writing it and Geoff Johns, who seemingly played a big role in the GL production, is also heavily involved.

And besides, just like with Wonder Woman, they've been unscuesesfully trying to get the movie off the ground for a very long time. There have been 5 screenwriter (teams) on the project in 6 years, which kinda proves that nobody seems to be able to come up with something the studio likes enough to actually greenlight it. Back in 2004 they had Goyer, who's approach seemed like the most promising to me. Then they gave it to Shawn Levy, before replacing him with David Dobkin and Craig Wright, who were hired to write the movie as a JL:M spin off. After that went nowhere, Dan Mazeau was supposed to write a script based on a treatment by Geoff Johns. Much like with Johns' Captain Marvel movie, we never heard anything about it again until they announced the Green Lantern Writing team was now also doing The Flash.

So after GL failed the way it did i doubt they've gained confidence in characters they obviously didn't have enough confidence to greenlight a movie before.

As i've said before, from my point of view, the best thing to do next for DC Entertainemnt would be to go with the JLA flick and continue form there. Since it features their two big guns, Superman and Batman, it's a much saver bet than anything else they can do right now. And it could also built some new momentum for the other character that could lead into some solo franchises spinning out of it.

Personally, i never got that single minded way of thinking some fanboys seem to have. These movies don't need to get bigger and bigger with the biggest one of them (the team up flick) coming last. The way a studio looks at it, there is no endpoint to these plans anyway. Just look at what Marvel is planning after Avengers. They won't continue with flicks like Secret Wars or anything like that, they will do Iron Man 3, which seemingly will be on a much smaller scale storywise than what came before.

And as for the need to introduce these characters in individual movies before the team up flick... i think that's very overrated and leads to exactly what we're seeing right now... pretty much every movie following the same boring (origin) formula. There are so much things you can do with these comic book proporties that would translate into much more interesting movies that really don't need the audiance to know every detail of the origin story of every character the movies features.

 

[Changeling]

how bout a jl film with superman batman wonder woman flash black lightning and aquaman? no green lantern...

 

[psylockolussus]

how bout a jl film with superman batman wonder woman flash black lightning and aquaman? no green lantern...

No.

 

[psylockolussus]

how bout a jl film with superman batman wonder woman flash black lightning and aquaman? no green lantern...

No.

If they are gonna do it, they better put the original team.

 

[DrCosmic]

JLA can't be done without shooting three epic movies at one time. It's too big to be contained any other way. Even putting the seven "original" leaguers together is too much for a two hour movie if you don't already know the characters.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

No.

If they are gonna do it, they better put the original team.

I agree with you.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Man of Steel- 2013
The Caped Crusader- 2015
Aquaman- 2015
The Flash- 2016
Superman: Last Son- 2016
Justice League- 2017

 

[Raiden]

Even with the presence of Batman and Superman, I still don't see how a JLA movie would work if they just jam all other characters in there like WW, GL, Flash, Manhunter, and Hawkman or Aquaman without solo movies to prepare their introduction (except for GL). WB will be assuming that everyone has watched the JLA animated series, and they can juggle all these characters within 2 hrs and 30 min. running time. I won't mind to see how they can pull it off, though.

 

[darthhalen]

I also agree that it's time for WB to go with a JL movie. I would have prefered solo movies first, but after GL I can't see them doing it. I also agree with the idea of Cavill for supes and ideally Reynolds as GL, but no way does Bale do a JL movie. Don't go to big at first either AT MOST you go with the big seven. You might be able to trim J'onn and save him for a sequel. Hold off on GA, Hawkman, Atom untill later.
IMHO there will be no announcements of any further DC properties until next May when Avengers makes a billion worldwide. Then expect the JL announcement.

 

[ClarkLuther55]

DC's mainstream superhero movie line is in tatters right now, the one exception being Nolan's Batman. The Superman reboot has yet to prove itself. Make good solo movies before even considering a JLA team up.

 

[psylockolussus]

I also agree that it's time for WB to go with a JL movie. I would have prefered solo movies first, but after GL I can't see them doing it. I also agree with the idea of Cavill for supes and ideally Reynolds as GL, but no way does Bale do a JL movie. Don't go to big at first either AT MOST you go with the big seven. You might be able to trim J'onn and save him for a sequel. Hold off on GA, Hawkman, Atom untill later.
IMHO there will be no announcements of any further DC properties until next May when Avengers makes a billion worldwide. Then expect the JL announcement.

The problem with WB doing the Green Lantern movie was they gave the movie a freaking $200 million budget. The budget was too expensive for a first movie. They also didn't hire writers that already had good movies in the past.

 

[The Apocalypse]

This movie won't happen until at least 2020.

 

[Donut]

If The Avengers crosses the $1 Billion mark then the WB will fast track a Justice League movie only for it to fail for being rushed

 

[Cobblepot]

I don't think they are going to do any of this, but I would suggest the following.

July 2013- Man of Steel
May 2014- Wonder Woman
December 2014- Trinity (new Batman, Supes and WW)
May 2015 - Green Lantern II introducing The Flash
July 2016 - Justice League introducing Martian Manhunter

Sorry no Aquaman...and we don't even need GL. He's already part of a team, and a big team that is.

 

[The Apocalypse]

I don't think they are going to do any of this, but I would suggest the following.

July 2013- Man of Steel
May 2014- Wonder Woman
December 2014- Trinity (new Batman, Supes and WW)
May 2015 - Green Lantern II introducing The Flash
July 2016 - Justice League introducing Martian Manhunter

Sorry no Aquaman...and we don't even need GL. He's already part of a team, and a big team that is.

This won't happen at all. It's not a good idea anyway. Bale isn't returning to do Batman. Or so he says. So I'll take his word for it. Now what? You need to find another Batman. I mean they could go in the route of The Hulk and just bring in a new actor without having him in a stand alone movie but for Batman, I wouldn't suggest it. You don't need a Trinity movie. That's just as good as JL in the eyes of the public. Make another GL movie to solidify the character because the first movie was a joke and then make a Flash movie and just build on from there. You people are listing down years like it works that way. All these movies will be rushed if you spread them out between 2 years. I've give them at least three years in between if you want some quality stuff.

 

[November Rain]

July 2013- Man of Steel
May 2014- The Flash
July 2014- Wonder Woman
May 2015 - Aquaman
August 2015 - Martian Manhunter
May 2016 - Green Lantern II
July 2016 - Batman
July 2017 - Justice League

-5 years, 8 films
-The budget for each film should not be over $200 million
-Good writers
-Good director

alot of these characters don't have villains i would particularly care about.

i say group em together, like aquaman and wonderwoman, martian manhunter and green latern, superman and bats, and I think flash could handle a solo because of the novelty of his powers. or maybe he could get hawkgirl as well, i see some chemistry in that lineup.

a big set up for darkseid and brainiac in cahoots and you have a winner folks.

 

[Cobblepot]

This won't happen at all. It's not a good idea anyway. Bale isn't returning to do Batman. Or so he says. So I'll take his word for it. Now what? You need to find another Batman. I mean they could go in the route of The Hulk and just bring in a new actor without having him in a stand alone movie but for Batman, I wouldn't suggest it. You don't need a Trinity movie. That's just as good as JL in the eyes of the public. Make another GL movie to solidify the character because the first movie was a joke and then make a Flash movie and just build on from there. You people are listing down years like it works that way. All these movies will be rushed if you spread them out between 2 years. I've give them at least three years in between if you want some quality stuff.

Batman is their main cash cow for almost two decades. They will get a new actor for Bats garanteed.

 

[Russell Nash]

Here's how I see it...

2012: The Dark Knight Rises (End of Nolan Continuity)
2013: Man of Steel (Own Continuity)
2014: The Flash (Lead up to JLA)
2015: Green Lantern II (Soft reboot ala Incredible Hulk leading up to JLA)
2016: Batman Reboot (Lead up to JLA)
2017: Superman Sequel (Soft reboot leading up to JLA)
2018: JLA (Introduce Wonderwoman, Aquaman). Team to include Batman, Superman, Green Latern, The Flash, Womderwoman and Aquaman.

 

[jmc]

If The Avengers crosses the $1 Billion mark then the WB will fast track a Justice League movie only for it to fail for being rushed

That ain't gonna happen.

 

[ChewySoup]

That ain't gonna happen.

I Concur.

Here's how I see it...

2012: The Dark Knight Rises (End of Nolan Continuity)
2013: Man of Steel (Own Continuity)
2014: The Flash (Lead up to JLA)
2015: Green Lantern II (Soft reboot ala Incredible Hulk leading up to JLA)
2016: Batman Reboot (Lead up to JLA)
2017: Superman Sequel (Soft reboot leading up to JLA)
2018: JLA (Introduce Wonderwoman, Aquaman). Team to include Batman, Superman, Green Latern, The Flash, Womderwoman and Aquaman.

Spaced a bit too far apart. I think they could easily get a Flash movie out by 2013 and a GL sequel/reboot no later than 2014. and hopefully a Hawkman movie soon after. Batman Reboot sounds about right, 2016 will about time. and Superman will by out by 2015 I'm certain. and a JLA for 2016/2017 sounds about right, I could be wrong though. t:

 

[silenceKILLS]

I would do it like this

2012: The Dark Knight Rises
2013: Man of Steel (early 2013)
2013: The Flash (mid or late 2013)
2014: Wonder Woman (early 2014)
2014: Green Lantern 2 (mid 2014)
2014: Superman/Batman (christmas 2014 and recast Bale and a cameo by WW to set up Trinity)
2015: Aquaman (early 2015)
2015: Justice League (mid 2015 and includes Martian Manhunter)