It is when the corporation making the solo movies will blame the franchises for the failure if the franchise they want to adapt, which has several franchise characters in it, ends up being a turkey.
You can also argue that if they do a solo-flick for lets say the Flash and for whatever reason it dosn't work out, they're gonna say "Okay, now we tried to do a superhero movie besides Batman and Superman and it failed, the lesser known characters just don't work". Not to mention that the chances that a JLA flick would fail are very slim, even if it's not all that good. While a Flash movie would have to be really great to meet the high expectations that i think they'd have.
A solo film failing won't make WB refuse to adapt several franchises at once for years or decades. JL does.
I think it would!
Your theory only works if every adaption is given respect to the franchise and that the right people are given the right franchises to adapt. Hollywood hasn't perfected that yet.
Frankly, that's the whole reason why i think building up a Justice League by having solo-movies for every individual character first isn't ever going to work. What are the chances for a successful Justice League film? Let's say 50/50, if you want to. (even if i think they're MUCH higher) And what are the chances that they're gonna make FIVE successful solo-movies? Like 10 %? And even if they'd be able to pull off these five successful solo-movies, there'd still be plenty of possible problems, that could come in the way of the team-up flick after this. Like actors don't wanting to play the role anymore, asking for way to much money cause they're big stars now or not wanting to share their solo spot-light in a team-up flick and stuff like that. And what if you've got four successful solo-movies, but the fifth one totally fails? Than the whole plane for the team-up flick would collapse, cause of course everything is tight together. And who tells me there is even a market for Superhero movies in about ten years, when all these solo-movies would be done and the team-up flick could finally be considered again? Sorry, but i'm willing to take that 50/50 chance for a good Justice League film over the 5-10 % chance that i'd get my team-up flick after all that solo-movies any day. A great Justice League movie is the thing i want to see and i don't see what it'd help me if they'd make a solo-movie for all the individual characters first. I mean, it dosn't increase the chance that the team-up flick will be good or anything. And i think fanboys would be even more afraid of a crappy team-up flick, that could ruin their precious solo-franchises when they are already established. If you want to see a Justice League movie, there's always this chance, that it fails, no matter what you do. So if you're afraid of that chance, you can never have such a movie.
It would fine if Hollywood respected super-hero franchises enough that we could rely on their visions being good adaptions. They aren't.
And that's why more than one movie version of our favorite characters at the same time would be such a good thing, it increases the chance that there's at least one you could like. I hate the Superman Retruns version of the character, but that's what we're stuck with at the solo-franchise. If they'd use this version for the team-up flick too, i still wouldn't like it. But if they're using a different version, there's at least a new chance that i'm gonna like it.
It's only "realistic" because WB has no faith or respect for anything that isn't Superman or Batman.
Yeah, but that's the reality we have to deal with. I don't think it makes much sense to say "i don't want this movie, cause they should deal with their Superhero franchises like this..." if "like this" sounds good in an ideal world kinda context, but isn't ever going to happen. With the given circumstances, i think a successful JLA flick is the best thing that could happen for fans of the DC characters. It's something the studio would do, cause they don't have to rely on the characaters, they're obviously having no faith in, but they're still appearing side by side with the characters they trust. And if it does good box office numbers, which i think is a good chance for, they're maybe gonna reconsider, cause all the characters are known now. I seriously believe this JLA flick is the best chance for EVERY DC fan, no matter what he likes better, solo-movies, team-up flicks or whatever, to get what he wants, so i really don't understand all the hate. People need to face what's given, not what could be...
There's absolutely no reason JL has to be made before the solo movies. It's not like the licenses are going to run out.
It's not like there's a reason for solo-movies being made before JL either.
The possibility of a great JL film is only because WB finally is trying to get the other franchises a chance on the big screen. If they bothered doing this with every other franchise like WW, Flash, GL etc they would be in the same position right now not JL.
But that wasn't what i was talking about. I was talking about the possibility that they'd be able to pull off a great JL flick that isn't bound to any solo-movies, which is by far bigger, than that they're gonna succeed with a plan to built up a great JL flick by making dozens of great AND successful solo-movies. Not only now, but generally. But yeah, they're planing to do a JLA flick now, while there's no indication that they'd be considering built up one with solo-movies, if this one dosn't happen now. So why should i what that? But i think the basic point of our argument is that your main priority seems to be great solo-movies and if that results in a great time-up flick, it's nothing more than a nice side-effect, while my main priority is the League movie and the solo spin-offs would be the nice side-effects.
