The Brave and the Bold News and Discussion Thread

[Eddie Dean]

Who mentioned Ethan Hawke?

 

[Lily Adler]

Who mentioned Ethan Hawke?

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

Someone brought up Dan Trachtenberg to direct and yeah I’d let him direct whatever he wants after Predator: Badlands.

Best sci-fi movie I’ve seen in the last 15 years. No joke. Wow.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Someone brought up Dan Trachtenberg to direct and yeah I’d let him direct whatever he wants after Predator: Badlands.

Best sci-fi movie I’ve seen in the last 15 years. No joke. Wow.

He's also specifically a great choice for the Al Ghul stuff. He's clearly the man for shirtless (but cowled) Batman vs equally shirtless Ras swordfighting.

 

[flickchick85]

Dan’s been sitting at the top of my list for several projects for a while now. Including Superman and Batman. There are so many DC characters I feel like he could absolutely kill it on, as I think he’s one of the most well-rounded and audience-friendly storytellers in genre filmmaking today.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

This sounds like a backhanded compliment but Dan makes what just a normal genre adventure movie should be. Something like Badlands should be the baseline for IP movies, which isn’t an insult to Badlands (which rules) - just a condemnation of how rough the IP space has gotten.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Dan’s been sitting at the top of my list for several projects for a while now. Including Superman and Batman. There are so many DC characters I feel like he could absolutely kill it on, as I think he’s one of the most well-rounded and audience-friendly storytellers in genre filmmaking today.

Hear me out:

Imagine if Dan does the magic he did with Prey, but does it for Wondy next time.

That would totally get me fired up for a Wonder Woman movie.

 

[flickchick85]

Hear me out:

Imagine if Dan does the magic he did with Prey, but does it for Wondy next time.

That would totally get me fired up for a Wonder Woman movie.

One of the few male filmmakers I would fully trust with Diana. He’s like my Greg Rucka of movies lol.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

I straight up won’t watch Supergirl because it has a male director but even I’d make an exception for Dan on WW.

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

I straight up won’t watch Supergirl because it has a male director but even I’d make an exception for Dan on WW.

If you’re serious, that’s your prerogative, but I personally think this take is so dumb that I can’t take anything you say seriously. Yikes, glad you have zero power at DC. You’re a staff member here entrusted to help guide the conversation and these are the kinds of opinions you’re sharing. It’s ruinous to this site’s reputation to have someone like you in power here saying such stupid things. This site is ****ed.

Wanting female directors to tell female stories is a valid concern but not seeing the movie just because it’s a male director, when you don’t even have any idea how they’re going to approach the story or anything is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen here.

 

[Boom]

 

[C. Lee]

It's important to discuss things civilly. You can disagree with someone's opinion without resorting to calling them names.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

If you’re serious, that’s your prerogative, but I personally think this take is so dumb that I can’t take anything you say seriously. Yikes, glad you have zero power at DC. You’re a staff member here entrusted to help guide the conversation and these are the kinds of opinions you’re sharing. It’s ruinous to this site’s reputation to have someone like you in power here saying such stupid things. This site is ****ed.

Wanting female directors to tell female stories is a valid concern but not seeing the movie just because it’s a male director, when you don’t even have any idea how they’re going to approach the story or anything is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen here.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Is that Gojira’s roar I hear in the distance?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Is that Gojira’s roar I hear in the distance?

Gojira's not on the staff anymore. He apparently refused to watch any movies not made by kaiju with the exception of the films of Guillermo del Toro. Really hurt the rep of the site, so the others had to kick him.