What DC movie would you like them to do with Joker-like style?

[Shinobi Shaw]

Would love it if they adapted Arkham Asylum A Serious House on Serious Earth, and just have a movie showing a day in the life of the patients of Arkham. Mix it with the flashbacks of Amadeus Arkham like in the book, but just cut Batman from the plot.

Feature Two Face, Clayface, Maxie Zeus, Mad Hatter etc.

 

[Sundancer]

Scarecrow or Deacon Blackfire

 

[DA_Champion]

Which villains are interesting enough to warrant their own origin films?

Two-Face probably?

 

[Rorschach2012]

Read a rumor that they’re developing Mr Freeze and Lex Luthor

 

[Rorschach2012]

We’ve yet to see a definitive Two-Face portrayal. We never really saw the duality in Eckhart’s version. I want full on multiple personalities.

A really fun movie could be made about Two-Face. If they can’t use Batman, I’d make The Judge the antagonist of the film.

 

[Frodo]

Read a rumor that they’re developing Mr Freeze and Lex Luthor

Mr Freeze is one I suggested a couple times . Paul Dini's story pretty much gives a road map. Its a tragic and sweeping love story which becomes a revenge story.

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

Ra's al Ghul

 

[-JKR-]

None.

I'd like to see them do a shared universe right. They failed at it once, sure, but Marvel Studios can't be the only film company capable of doing it. Let's see an actual good Superman film (other than Reeves for his time of course). Let's see a good Justice League.

I don't. I think they should have each franchise have its own little universe. I really couldn't care less about seeing the Justice League on the big screen, quite frankly.

These characters each inhabit their own, rich worlds. You would have to cut a lot of corners (like Marvel Studios had to do, as well, unfortunately) in order to bring them together.

You could cross over stuff like the New Gods and Superman, but I don't really care about seeing characters such as Batman or the Flash take on Darkseid. Same for Green Lantern, who's got his own cosmic angle without having to tackle the Apokolips people.

 

[Guts]

Ra’s Al Ghul.

A character study of someone who believes humanity is a virus that needs constantly culling to maintain environmental equilibrium is something very relevant to today’s world. Would force a lot of uncomfortable questions.

We already got a villain like that with Thanos in Infinity War.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Talia Al Ghul would probably be more interesting, as the woman who is caught between her love for two madmen.

 

[Guts]

A good Jonah Hex movie.

 

[FunkMiller]

We already got a villain like that with Thanos in Infinity War.

This thread is about a Joker-style, very realistic movie. Thanos is not in a realistic movie

 

[Guts]

This thread is about a Joker-style, very realistic movie. Thanos is not in a realistic movie

I meant having a villain that commits genocide to either save the planet of save the population has been done recently with Thanos. Even though we haven't gotten a live action version of Ra's like that yet, the general audience would probably think it's hackneyed. I don't it would force "uncomfortable" questions since Infinity War did fuel a bunch of hot takes about Thanos being right.

 

[thebatfan5194]

Still think Lex Luthor is the most obvious choice:

1. Has the same level of name recognition in the general public

2. Has been in pop culture for a long enough time and with enough iterations that you can do interesting subversions of audience expectations.

3. Can be done in a realistic way that can also serve as a commentary on larger social issues of modern day.

Fits the exact formula of what Joker just did, and that is what WB will want to replicate. I’m sorry but no one except for comic book fans will give two ****s about a Vandal Savage movie or a Question movie. Part of the appeal of doing these “Black Label” type movies (and even elseworlds stories in the comics) is taking a character people already know really well and putting a new spin on them. Having one of these movies about a character no one has a connection to outside of hardcore fans will just seem like another comic book movie.

 

[TheGuy]

Still think Lex Luthor is the most obvious choice:

1. Has the same level of name recognition in the general public

2. Has been in pop culture for a long enough time and with enough iterations that you can do interesting subversions of audience expectations.

3. Can be done in a realistic way that can also serve as a commentary on larger social issues of modern day.

Fits the exact formula of what Joker just did, and that is what WB will want to replicate. I’m sorry but no one except for comic book fans will give two ****s about a Vandal Savage movie or a Question movie. Part of the appeal of doing these “Black Label” type movies (and even elseworlds stories in the comics) is taking a character people already know really well and putting a new spin on them. Having one of these movies about a character no one has a connection to outside of hardcore fans will just seem like another comic book movie.

I think lesser villains can have their own solo movies down the line, not exactly to follow Joker though. Big names villains should have their piece of cake first.

P.S. Venom really isn't unknown, and despite the fandom wanting the film to bomb, in hindsight, they were wrong.

 

[FunkMiller]

I meant having a villain that commits genocide to either save the planet of save the population has been done recently with Thanos. Even though we haven't gotten a live action version of Ra's like that yet, the general audience would probably think it's hackneyed. I don't it would force "uncomfortable" questions since Infinity War did fuel a bunch of hot takes about Thanos being right.

The general audience would have probably though the plot to Joker was hackneyed if it had been presented differently.

And a serious, intelligent examination of mankind’s destruction of our environment, and the morally questionable response of a powerful individual would be quite different from a giant bald purple alien wearing a big golden glove, snapping his fingers to kill off half the universe.

 

[Hammer!]

I don’t need to see more of these Joker type films, but I guess Id take em if they came out.

I wanna see Two Face done right in love action. Still yearning for that split personality that is his most interesting, and unique characteristic. Apparently filmmakers just think him having two faces is the most psychologically interesting thing about him.

 

[Hammer!]

This thread is about a Joker-style, very realistic movie. Thanos is not in a realistic movie

They could Nolanize him. A big thug in a purple suit, who steals colored crystals at a space museum and loves to give big speeches.

 

[Web-Head]

I guess Lex could work, but I hope it would embrace its comic book routes much more than Joker did.

 

[random_havoc]

I don't. I think they should have each franchise have its own little universe. I really couldn't care less about seeing the Justice League on the big screen, quite frankly.

These characters each inhabit their own, rich worlds. You would have to cut a lot of corners (like Marvel Studios had to do, as well, unfortunately) in order to bring them together.

You could cross over stuff like the New Gods and Superman, but I don't really care about seeing characters such as Batman or the Flash take on Darkseid. Same for Green Lantern, who's got his own cosmic angle without having to tackle the Apokolips people.

I don't think any of Marvel's legions of fans across the world or the record fortune is movies have made would describe their movies as cutting corners

 

[-JKR-]

I don't think any of Marvel's legions of fans across the world or the record fortune is movies have made would describe their movies as cutting corners

Well, I am a Marvel fan as well as a DC fan (which doesn't automatically translate into me being a die-hard MCU fan, though -- they're as hit and miss as anyone else) and think that they wasted a lot of their characters' potential in order to accomodate Kevin Feige's unified vision, shared universe and ongoing storyline. So much more could've and should've been done with them. And I'll leave it at that.

 

[Frodo]

Toyman as a creepy race against the clock thriller

Scarecrow as a horror film taking place on a University campus with his young students being the protagonists

Catwoman as an Entrapment / Thomas Crown Affair like heist, "big score" film pitting her against the FBI and The Falcone crime family.

Mr Freeze- A tragic love and revenge story taking place in the 1950s ala the Shape of Water

 

[TheScarecrow]

Superman: Red Son?
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight?

 

[Rorschach2012]

Toyman as a Saw-type horror film where the protagonists have to escape Winslow Schott’s toy-based death traps sounds amazing.

Scarecrow basically writes itself.

Two-Face lends himself to a deep character study like Joker. This time focusing on multiple personality disorder. Maybe they could do that Two of a Kind story where Two Face’s fiancé tries to hide the fact that she has a twin.

Lex Luthor is a no brainer and I bet it’ll happen.

Parasite could be good as a The Thing type body horror film.

Clayface seems like another obvious one. That two part Feat of Clay episode of BTAS would make for an incredible story. Or they could go less sympathetic and make him a serial killer who can impersonate anyone. Depends on if they want to do Basil Karlo or Matt Hagen. Maybe Hagen could be the protagonist and Karlo the antagonist. They had a Clayface vs Clayface episode of The Batman actually.

 

[BarryAllen]

Enemy Ace