As a Snyder fan, Ive been ready to move on from Snyder for a while now. I own the Snyder Cut and I'm very happy with it and happy to see what other creatives will do with the JL going forward.
That said, I hope that this reboot is done tastefully and its not a super blatant "F YOU" to Snyder in how it cleans the palate. I think that would be unnecessary.
I hope so too, like, we can move on without shaming the past.
I like more of his movies than I dislike and I too am ready to move on. And I think it’s easy to do. Just make flicks that don’t explicitly rely on his canon. Which a bunch of the films have already done.
We’ll see how this goes though if it’s indeed true.
But we know full well there will be those dissecting the inconsistencies, the errors, asking where is so and so, what happened to this, or her, or why isn't this mentioned anymore!
A clean side step is needed.
Exactly. And yet, the people upset don't seem to understand that this happened because Snyders version failed to satisfy the GA. They would know this if they'd get out of the Twitter echo chamber that they live in. I keep hearing "they had a perfectly good connected universe". No, they didn't. Man of Steel was mixed, BVS got negative reviews, and JL box office reflected that. Only Wonder Woman and Aquaman were stand outs from that era of DC. It's a classic example of a vocal minority that doesn't get they aren't the majority. a movie like BVS should have been far more successful than it was, and while they'd like to have you believe that it's because it wasn't "Snyders directors cut" that wasn't released in theaters as the cause, it's really just his vision is liked by a lot of people.
I'm also not saying it's a great idea for Keaton to be back full time, even though it'll be exciting to see him. But what's done is done, and it's time to move on. I'm still surprised people actually thought we'd have 3 Batmen full time in their own movies too. WB has made it pretty clear Pattinson is the future of the character.
Good connected universe in terms of story telling or profits? End of the day, I could see how they ere all connected, I had no trouble believing the universe... I just wasn't interested in what they did to Superman and how they rushed out batman.
Keaton will be the leader of the next and laze stage of the DCEU, which is retcon and a cash grab before it ends and they start building Pattison's world. I recon we have about 5 years left of the DCEU, makes sense given ages, contracts etc
My hope is this - the timelines Barry crosses all merge into one, at the end of the movie.
creating this time line.
B89 being the first set of events. Then, in 2013, we have the appearance of Superman, however he does not snap Zod's neck, instead he and faora they are both locked up.
We have a proper MOS2 where it could be set 5-7 years after MOS, superman is this great hero everyone loves... Clark Kent is a quiet, unassuming reporter, no one knows who he is. At times he puts on the bumbling act to certain people, in certain situations, Superman saves people from tragedies, trains wrecks, fires, no super villains. We see a cool montage of the last 5-7 years.
We see brainiac as the villain for MOS2
Batman is an old, urban legend from the 80s/90s - but clark tracks him down - they have a friendship.
Lex Luthor, mad scientist at lex corp decided to create a clone, uses his DNA's and Faora's - creates Supergirl, Supergirl escapes her captives and is well, super girl. We have a couple of movies.
Batgirl is then introduced via the help of Bruce Wayne. We have a couple of movies.
WW1984 leads into the 3rd movie which retcons what happened when she meets bruce - it's Keaton Bruce, therefore, BvS, JL never happens for her. WW3 is set in 2000's she meets bruce etc they establish a team with clark and look for others (as a side story)
AM the same, the first two movies are fine, it's old man bruce, not bat fleck that tracks him down and the new JL spawns from there.
Shazam! also, is fine, it just gets retconned so BvS etc never happened.
Black Adam comes, it is what it is.
Then, the final movie Black Adam vs the Justice League where Black Adam is just misunderstood by the worlds leaders, it gets out of hand, the justice league step in to take over the fight and control... we see a cool fight scene when the rock writes a super hero love letter to himself and we see all of them losing to them, only for Black Adam to do a speech about team work and working together... and they realize black Adam was after the corruption... say in government, they all go together and fix it and boom, they all live happily ever after.
Then, a year later, we all focus on Reeves universe where we see reboots of the lot.
but I'm hoping WB/DC heard the complaints from those who felt so letdown by the CW Crisis, and will actually deliver on the potential that this movie has. Keaton's involvement is one of the things that gives me the most hope. Not just because I want to see him, but because I can't see he would have signed on unless he was as sure as he could be that the movie will deliver. He knows what a great legacy his interpretation is. He doesn't need to risk tarnishing that.
