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[psylockolussus]

Rumors flying around that Andy Muschietti will be announced as the director of Justice League 2 very soon.

They should call it The Justice League.

Similar to The Suicide Squad.

 

[psylockolussus]

Why do I get the feeling that they're going to just rush these films out to play catch up to Marvel if this is true...

Yeah but Man of Steel 2 and another Justice League 2 are probably their best options right now, other than Wonder Woman 3 and Joker 4 post 2023.

The rest like The Flash 2, Aquaman 3, Blue Beetle 2, Shazam 3 would still depend at the boX office neXt year.

I just hope they would make it right the second time around. We should be getting a JL film every 3 years (JL 2 in 2021 and JL 3 in 2024), with new additions to the team per every new sequel.

 

[Predator jp]

i still think they should do Trinity movie to restore the foundation before another JL movie.

 

[Iceman]

i still think they should do Trinity movie to restore the foundation before another JL movie.

I’d like to see that too.

 

[Iceman]

They should call it The Justice League.

Similar to The Suicide Squad.

 

[GreenKToo]

My wish would be for 12/14 films with a connected storyline, With either Darkseid or Anti-monitor as the main villain.

The spectre would cameo in all the films warning heroes and villains alike of the coming threat.

And about JL. That should be way down the road UNLESS they want to make one with a separate threat and story.

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

Darkseid would be ideal. Building up to him would probably be the right move unless for some reason they actually decide to make Snyder’s JL2 and 3.

But I’d say the next JL movie should be about the OMAC Project/Tower of Babel with Amanda Waller/Checkmate as the villain.

 

[Iceman]

My wish would be for 12/14 films with a connected storyline, With either Darkseid or Anti-monitor as the main villain.

The spectre would cameo in all the films warning heroes and villains alike of the coming threat.

And about JL. That should be way down the road UNLESS they want to make one with a separate threat and story.

Yeah, they could just make a massive general DC event film with a ton of buildup. JL could follow on later. At least it would feel different from what they’ve done before and what Marvel has done.

 

[GreenKToo]

Each film should be self contained with a beginning and ending with its own threat/villain, but the big bad ( Darkseid or Anti-monitor) presence would be felt in all the films.

 

[psylockolussus]

-Superman
-Batman
-Wonder Woman
-Aquaman
-Flash
-Green Lantern
-Hawkgirl

That should be the line up for JL2.

 

[GreenKToo]

I like it except I would have MM.

If they take their time and build up each character ( both hero and villains) in solo films, we could end up With a JLU type of film or films.

Instead of 6 or 7 heroes, we could have a dozen or more.
Plus ( most ) of the villains would be fighting against the main big bad as he wants them all dead, both good and evil.

I doubt it happens, but it sure would be great.

At the end of each film, spectre cameos
( he appears both to hero and villain, but separately) to warn of the coming threat.

He shows them visions of what's happened to other planets when their inhabitants failed to come together and unite. All were destroyed.

 

[psylockolussus]

James Gunn and Peter Safran Tease the Next 10 Years of DC Projects

Sorry not sorry but I don't like James Gunn at all especially when those tweets resurfaced. I don't know what new things he could do leading the DC movies, especially his Suicide Squad flopped and the newest DC film is not even doubling its production budget at the boX office.

Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash and even Justice League were kickstarted in the DCEU years ago. So even if films for those turned out to be a success in the future, he would have just continued which appeal to the masses.

Part of GOTG's success Imo is merely because of Marvel Studios / Disney marketing. GOTG would have been successful imo without James Gunn. WBD doesn't have a track record to launch lesser known characters yet. So I will believe this "cohesive ten year plan" when I see it.

Btw, Man of Steel isn't even 10 years old, and this is like the 3rd or 4th attempt to launch a cohesive DCinematic Universe... Good Lord. Is it that hard to copy Marvel Studios?

 

[Iceman]

Guardians might have been totally different without Gunn though. It would see good support from being in the MCU but that applies to all MCU films. It outperformed many of the big MCU characters with better name recognition, wasn't just reliant on them to boost it up.

 

[Iceman]

-Superman
-Batman
-Wonder Woman
-Aquaman
-Flash
-Green Lantern
-Hawkgirl

That should be the line up for JL2.

Sounds good to me. I would want Martian Manhunter eventually too in later sequels.

 

[psylockolussus]

Guardians might have been totally different without Gunn though. It would see good support from being in the MCU but that applies to all MCU films. It outperformed many of the big MCU characters with better name recognition, wasn't just reliant on them to boost it up.

James Gunn played a big role in it, but at the end of the day, he was a hired man for the movie. The movie would have still happened without him.

The Suicide Squad proved that without a marketing push, his movies wouldn't have performed that well at the boX Office and WBD needs boX office success in order to make movies again and again, outside of the already well known DC characters.

 

[Iceman]

James Gunn played a big role in it, but at the end of the day, he was a hired man for the movie. The movie would have still happened without him.

The film would have happened of course, just wouldn't have his personality stamped all over it, and that was a big reason for its success IMO.

 

[GreenKToo]

Gotg a success without gunn?
Maybe, but as much?
That's one of those things we'll never know.

As for him leading the dcu, I feel better with him in charge than without him.

We can't blame him for BA.
Give him a couple films with him in charge and if they're ho hum, then I'll worry.

My wish is that they will have several solo films this time first before jumping into a JL type of film.
That more than anything is what hurt the development of the last JL film.
WB wanted Avengers money and they wanted it now but without the buildup first.

 

[psylockolussus]

Gotg a success without gunn?
Maybe, but as much?
That's one of those things we'll never know.

As for him leading the dcu, I feel better with him in charge than without him.

We can't blame him for BA.
Give him a couple films with him in charge and if they're ho hum, then I'll worry.

My wish is that they will have several solo films this time first before jumping into a JL type of film.
That more than anything is what hurt the development of the last JL film.
WB wanted Avengers money and they wanted it now but without the buildup first.

He was in charge for The Suicide Squad. And the interest for that movie was low. It wasn't even a hit on HBO MaX.

So Disney's marketing for GOTG did play a role. While James Gunn's name couldn't even make The Suicide Squad a streaming hit despite the good reviews.

With Black Adam flopping, what are the chances they would give the right budget for a blockbuster film? Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter need a good budget and I doubt 150 million would be enough. And he'd settle for 100 million ish or lower for superheroes that could be done in lower budget.

 

[Lily Adler]

My wish would be for 12/14 films with a connected storyline, With either Darkseid or Anti-monitor as the main villain.

The spectre would cameo in all the films warning heroes and villains alike of the coming threat.

And about JL. That should be way down the road UNLESS they want to make one with a separate threat and story.

When you have a Justice League second trilogy where Hal is corrupted by Parallax under Krona's machinations by tampering with the Multiverse and Anti-Monitor being the final threat.

 

[GreenKToo]

I really hope we aren't setting ourselves up for disappointment by expecting too much. ( I know I'm expecting alot )

I kinda feel it may be too late, that this shoulda be done 10 years ago.

 

[psylockolussus]

I really hope we aren't setting ourselves up for disappointment by expecting too much. ( I know I'm expecting alot )

I kinda feel it may be too late, that this shoulda be done 10 years ago.

Their words are too good to be true.

Who knows one day, they would make a Superman film that is set outside of the DCEU and call it The Superman...

 

[Pennywise]

https://www.thewrap.com/constantine-2-sequel-rated-r-keanu-reeves-francis-lawrence/

When speaking to director Francis Lawrence about his new Netflix movie “Slumberland” (streaming later this week), we had to ask him about his plans for “Constantine 2,” which was recently announced as officially happening. This new “Constantine” sequel, which will reunite him with original star Keanu Reeves and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, will be different in at least one key aspect, at least if Lawrence has his way. Get ready for a hard-R “Constantine.”

While Lawrence said that he didn’t think “Constantine 2” would be his next project (the director also just finished shooting the “Hunger Games” prequel “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”), “All I know is that Keanu and Akiva and I have been wanting to do it forever.” He said that “all of that craziness with DC” has actually subsided, letting them reclaim the character. “We finally have been sort of given the permission to go ahead and do our version of Constantine because people are always saving him to be part of some shared universe thing or some TV thing or whatever. And now I think people realize that there might really be an appetite for another version of the Keanu Constantine.”

While Lawrence said that he doesn’t have a script for the “Constantine” sequel yet, the new movie’s storyline has been discussed endlessly. “We have germs of ideas and dedication,” Lawrence said. “And Keanu and I have been batting around for a while and we’ve always wanted to do it. It’s just that we finally gotten past the hurdle of now we can go ahead and, and really do it. Now we have to just roll up our sleeves and dive in. But we have lots of ideas.”

One thing that will be different about the sequel, at least if Lawrence has his way, is that it will be rated R.

This stems from a frustration he had with the 2005 movie. “One of the biggest things for me about the first one was we followed, per Warner Bros., the rules to make a PG-13 movie in terms of violence, blood, language, sexuality. But the ratings board gave us a hard R based on their the gray zone of intensity. And my big, big regret was that we have an R-rated movie that’s really a PG-13 movie,” Lawrence said. “And if I was going to have to go have an R, I would have really made an R-rated movie. I would have made it much scarier and much more violent and I would have really made an R-rated movie.”

The other thing he’d like to add in the follow-up? Some more laughs.

“I think John Constantine is a is a funny character in a darkly comic kind of way and I would want to definitely add more of that sarcastic, cynical sense of humor to the story,” Lawrence said. Bring it on.

 

[psylockolussus]

Hmm who really wants to see a Constantine 2 though?

The MatriX revival flopped. What else more for a sequel to a boX office bomb that was released way back in 2005?

 

[NotNickFury]

If that's how Lawrence wants to tell the story, I don't see why not. Especially given that we've had a number of R-rated DC films in recent years.

 

[psylockolussus]

But Keane Reeves just headlined a MatriX movie that flopped. Black Adam is a flop due to the budget.

Clearly this isn't the right time for a Constantine 2 (a sequel to a flop movie) from the studio that delivered those two recent flops.