DC Films Under Gunn...which other heroes should get their own franchises?

[J.Drangal]

My one hope is that, if we ever got a Golden Age-era project, it would take on the sort of gaudy aesthetic we saw with the Minutemen in Watchmen, Cap’s early suit in The First Avenger, the Batman serials, etc.

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I briefly shared this idea on the forum a while ago, but it's along these lines that I would imagine an adaptation of Jack Kirby's Fourth World...

Where others probably fantasize about a modern sci-fi blockbuster visually in the vein of Star Wars or the cosmic installment of the MCU, I would love to see Jack Kirby's world treated on screen with, more or less, the cinematic patina of its original era. Give me colorful costumes, high-end makeup, crazy sets, models, old-school matte painting...
It may be difficult to imagine without it seeming ridiculous, but it's all a question of tone and direction. I think there's something truly unique to be done her... but I know it won't happen.

The other thing, and I've shared this several times too but I'm just too much in love with the idea, is a Batman movie that would borrow from Morrison's run and be brought to the screen in a style somewhere between the unapologetic kitsch of the 1960s series and the dark eccentricity of Twin Peaks.

 

[Boom]

It was never going to happen, but it would've been really cool if the DCU in general leaned into the classic, "Golden Age" aesthetic of costumes with all of its heroes. Like Alex Ross' art brought to life, or the Minutemen costumes in Watchmen and Cap's USO costume in First Avenger (as Sawyer pointed out).

If the DCU is embracing the more abstract and absurd aspects of the comics book mythos, might as well go all-in and give us the goofy costumes as well.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

I am fine with the JSA characters or heroes from the 40s having those types of costumes, but if the "modern" heroes also have the same type of look, you lose the contrast between those eras and the sense of progression of time. Fashion changes from era to era.

 

[BobJM]

Really like the idea of a superhero period piece-- whether it's JSA in the 1940s or a DC New Frontier adaptation in the 1950s.

Hell, I still think a 1950s Cold War thriller with Martian Manhunter and King Faraday sounds awesome. Imagine that as an HBO series with all the budget & casting that comes with it. These movies aren't winning any Oscars but Penguin showed us there could be some room for awards in the TV realm.

 

[BobJM]

Lol or just get Tony Gilroy to write the MM Cold War treatment now that Andor is done. Feel like a 1950s spy thriller with CIA, KGB, and Martians could be right up his alley.