What is DC Entertainment doing? What is their plan?

[Red Mask]

Millar's ending for a Superman trilogy sounds so extraneous. What's the point of showing Superman outliving everyone and somehow still being stuck on Earth alone billions of years in the future, with the rest of humanity extinct?

You can't call him the "Man of Tomorrow" if he won't be around in the future. t:

 

[Red Mask]

I disagree. Green Lantern is troubled by the fact that it was a by-the-numbers origin story for the sake of telling the origin story.

And yet WB has produced another terrible DC comicbook film. Maybe they'll just try and grab Michael Bay for the next one.

 

[Octoberist]

Screw Michael Bay; he's not the type who respect any lore, as entertaining and braindead as his first and third Transformers are.

 

[psylockolussus]

Michael Bay is just explosions, explosions, he's not really a good director.

 

[Airwings]

To Cain:

OMG, You make so many points in one single post.
I agree that DC character have a grander scale. In fact, that is something I have said for a long time. Each of them, may it be Green Lantern or Wonder Woman or other, have a rich story to be told, that doesn't have to rely on something else to work. Just look at Superman. Can you imagine someone else interferring?
Unless they set the whole movie up as a combination with another hero, it shouldn't be done. And even then it will be quite hard. The film should not have one visual style, but TWO. The characters crave for that.
I don't know if it's right to compare with religious stories. But what if Noah, Moses and Jesus met? It would pretty much change everything, and take away the essence of each story.
And as Cain says, each DC hero shall stand out as the best we have hin the world. It's important! I say that they should all take a role of a saviour because of they power level. A little bit of a messias figure. Not only Superman is such.

 

[Octoberist]

Just hire Brad Bird, DC.

 

[merced]

DC needs to take a look at 2013 and beyond and decide how to proceed with its comic franchise films.

The only viable franchise right now is Batman. WB has already decided, per Robinov, to reconfigure Batman - his word for rebbot - once Nolan leaves after the 2012 film. I'm guessing they'll move fast - no 5 year wait as the Spiderman reboot will have had. Course this wasn't/isn't rocket science - Batman is all WB has right now and he will continue in film even after Nolan leaves.

Solo films look really dicey to me after GL which is not going to even make 300 million WW.

Superman is lost to WB after 2012 or at least frozen from being used for an extended period until the rights issue if finally settled in the SCOTUS.

WB desperately needs a franchise to replace Superman and join Batman.

IMO they do that with either a JL film in 2013 featuring Batman and Flash, Aquaman, GL and WW. Launch one or several of these secondary characters from JL.

Or less expensive do a team-up film. Batman and GL would seem to be the logical pair as WB is saying it still has high hopes for a GL franchise and Batman may be the way to re-launch GL.

In any event, it's back to the drawing boards at WB is my hunch.

 

[Airwings]

Batman and Green Lantern teaming up in a film.... only the two of them...well, it sounds far-fetched.... are we sure it will even work?

 

[Octoberist]

I have a prediction: Instead of JL, WB will opt to do a Batman/Superman film. Now, which actors will be involved? Never day never in the biz...

 

[merced]

Batman and Green Lantern teaming up in a film.... only the two of them...well, it sounds far-fetched.... are we sure it will even work?

I was just suggesting WB can either go the JL route or do a pairing of Batman with one of these heroes. The studio is down to not many options right now re: it's comic book character film.

BTW, Disney/Marvel has announced a release date for Thor 2 - July 2013. So already Marvel has 2 comic films set for 2013 and they'll probably try to launch another solo franchise then.

Meanwhile, WB will likely not get anything out in 2013.

 

[TheIncredibleSk]

Batman could only pair up with Superman for anything to be truly successful. If WB was smart they'd get a good writer and a good director and do The Flash on 100M budget. It'll make that back in a heartbeat.

 

[The Batman]

****ing out Batman is a truly terrible idea.

 

[merced]

****ing out Batman is a truly terrible idea.

Maybe but WB has to decide on a path forward.

Thor 2 was just announced for 7/26/13, Ironamn 2 will be out in 2013. It looks like Wolverine 2 will also be out i 2013. Plus it's expected Marvel will launch another one of it's characters into solo flight in 2013 so that is 4 frickin comic book films in that year alone from Marvel.

WB can't compete with this and shouldn't try.

IMO they should shoot for a comic book film every other year or so.

However, if they want to even halfway keep up with Marvel they need successful franchises and short of leveraging off Batman's huge success I don't see how they get there from here.

 

[TheIncredibleSk]

You can't compete with a studio who only produces comic book films. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't try to produce their own comic book movies. They to find another successful franchise. Also people might start to get burnt out on Batman so ****ing the only thing you got is not a good idea....at all.

 

[bullets]

Aren't they kicking off Superman again ?

 

[TheIncredibleSk]

Yes Man of Steel comes out next Christmas.

 

[Godzilla2014]

And yet WB has produced another terrible DC comicbook film. Maybe they'll just try and grab Michael Bay for the next one.

Possibly. I hope not. While Bay, as demonstrated in his Transformers films, is great at awesome visuals, but I get that he is not interested in the infrastructure that supports them. The end result is, at best, a film that is enjoyable the purely visual level, but isn't very memorable otherwise, and, at worst, a movie that is boring and not worth watching.

What I don't get about Millar's statement is... HE said he could write a Superman script that would make a huge hit movie. Now, suddenly, Superman (and apparently all DC characters no named Batman) won't translate to film? Sounds like sour grapes from an arrogant *****ebag.

Same here.

 

[solidsnake86]

****ing out Batman is a truly terrible idea.

Agreed. They need to give his character a rest for a good number of years. Technically WB don't need a comic book movie for 2013 because I'm sure they could greenlight any film. But if they were really committed to putting out green lantern then they have nothing. The thing is though 2013 isn't that far away and the flash and GL were the only thing that had scripts. Flash we've heard absolutely nothing on since they turned in the draft in december and with the recent debacle of GL I can't see them giving the go ahead to the flash with the same writers.

 

[merced]

Agreed. They need to give his character a rest for a good number of years. Technically WB don't need a comic book movie for 2013 because I'm sure they could greenlight any film. But if they were really committed to putting out green lantern then they have nothing. The thing is though 2013 isn't that far away and the flash and GL were the only thing that had scripts. Flash we've heard absolutely nothing on since they turned in the draft in december and with the recent debacle of GL I can't see them giving the go ahead to the flash with the same writers.

I think WB needs to pass on 2013 and not rush anything. Marvel has at least 4 films coming out anyway that year. More such films would be over-saturation.

After the GL disappointment they need to re-evaluate their comci book product.

2014 gives themt a long while to make a decision. JL, another solo film like Flash or maybe rush the rebooted Batman. But again Marvel has likley 3 or 4 films coming out in 2014 so again we are talking over-saturation.

WB maybe should hold off until 2015 before it makes another comic book film.

 

[akfj]

But again Marvel has likley 3 or 4 films coming out in 2014 so again we are talking over-saturation.

To be fair, only two of those so far will be actual Marvel Studios films, which is fine since that is that studio's specialty. Fox may or may not have a Marvel-based movie out at that time, but based on Hugh Jackman's recent comments the Wolverine film is likely to be released in late 2012. I don't know what other Marvel-based movie you are referring to, but it has to be something from another studio that I'm not remembering at the moment. Deadpool maybe? I wouldn't count on that one yet.

Edit: I wouldn't count on a Fantastic Four or Daredevil reboot either being released at that time.

 

[TheIncredibleSk]

**** MARVEL. You might as well never make a comic book film again from DC cause Marvel gonna have films out every year from now on since they have a studio. Make a good film and people will go to see it.

 

[Karelia]

**** MARVEL. You might as well never make a comic book film again from DC cause Marvel gonna have films out every year from now on since they have a studio. Make a good film and people will go to see it.

Yeah. It's not very fair for DC to have to wait to put out a film because Marvel makes a bijillion every year. Agreed, if it's good, people will go see it.

They might be better off putting their film out when theirs not so many big blockbusters coming out. Didn't The Dark Knight release in december?

 

[akfj]

2012 is the year where there's a risk of oversaturation as far as comic book films; I don't see it for 2013. However, Marvel Studios has their own problem as far as oversaturation of their own characters in a short amount of time. By 2013, Iron Man will have been featured as a main character in films four times in five years, and Thor three times in a little over two years.

 

[HighFivingMF]

They might be better off putting their film out when theirs not so many big blockbusters coming out. Didn't The Dark Knight release in december?

Nope. July.

 

[akfj]

Edit: HighFivingMF answered this already.