What is DC Entertainment doing? What is their plan?

[Airwings]

DC should tap into their Vertigo line. 100 Bullets would be awesome. Sandman, Lucifer, Scalped. Top quality, mature, small budget films alone the lines of History of Violence and Road to Perdition. That's where DC has a leg up over Marvel. Marvel doesn't have anything like Vertigo really.

Comic book movies don't necessarily have to be about superheroes and have mega budgets.

No they should not. What DC have to do is to make their superheroes as live action. Pop culture icons as The Flash and Wonder Woman, and a couple of others, have to be made. It is as simple as that. Even if we have to wait 20 years until another wave of superhero adaptions hit the cinemas, these characters just have to be live action films. Nobody should have anything to say against it.

 

[HighFivingMF]

DC should tap into their Vertigo line. 100 Bullets would be awesome. Sandman, Lucifer, Scalped. Top quality, mature, small budget films alone the lines of History of Violence and Road to Perdition. That's where DC has a leg up over Marvel. Marvel doesn't have anything like Vertigo really.

Comic book movies don't necessarily have to be about superheroes and have mega budgets.

I want American Vampire and new Swamp Thing. Another stab at Constantine would be cool, and they could call it Hellblazer and actually cast somebody that actually looks like Constantine to set it apart.

 

[Octoberist]

Yeah they can do wonders with ther Vertigo line..

 

[The Morningstar]

No they should not. What DC have to do is to make their superheroes as live action. Pop culture icons as The Flash and Wonder Woman, and a couple of others, have to be made. It is as simple as that. Even if we have to wait 20 years until another wave of superhero adaptions hit the cinemas, these characters just have to be live action films. Nobody should have anything to say against it.

Screw "pop culture icons". I'm talking about making great movies. Marvel has a monopoly on superheroes at the moment (apart from Batman of course).

Where DC has Marvel beat is the more mature, "indie" type comic book adaptions. There is so much potential in the Vertigo line. They may not be box office blockbusters, but they can be really great films that transcend the comic book movie genre.

Adaptations of Gaiman's Sandman, Carey's Lucifer, Azzarello's 100 Bullets, Moore's Swamp Thing, Aaron's Scalped. And yea, even another shot at Hellblazer. Those are the types of movies i want to see from DCE.

 

[Raiden]

Screw "pop culture icons". I'm talking about making great movies. Marvel has a monopoly on superheroes at the moment (apart from Batman of course).

Where DC has Marvel beat is the more mature, "indie" type comic book adaptions. There is so much potential in the Vertigo line. They may not be box office blockbusters, but they can be really great films that transcend the comic book movie genre.

Adaptations of Gaiman's Sandman, Carey's Lucifer, Azzarello's 100 Bullets, Moore's Swamp Thing, Aaron's Scalped. And yea, even another shot at Hellblazer. Those are the types of movies i want to see from DCE.

Did you forget V For Vandetta, RED, Constantine, The Losers, Watchmen, and Jonah Hex? WB has been skirting around their superhero movies for years except for Superman, Batman, and (recently) GL. But to keep on ignoring other properties like WW, Flash, and even JLA is ridiculous. WB should embrace what they have, instead of treating their superhero properties with skepticism and rejection. Marvel is doing their part, but WB has so many characters (and none of them licensed to other studios) but chose to ignore most of them as well.

 

[Airwings]

Well said, Raiden. DC and Warner have let us down for too long. There is a bunch of superheroes, and it's pure logic that they must be turned into big films. I can take it so far and claim that Warner should be shut down if they fail us and ignore these superhero properties for too much longer. A film company with that kind of strange attitude towards stars of comic book history, should not be allowed to keep on making films.

Either that, or force them to sell the rights to Flash and the rest. Other companies can handle this much better. Well, perhaps not Fox.

 

[HighFivingMF]

I can take it so far and claim that Warner should be shut down if they fail us and ignore these superhero properties for too much longer.

 

[Airwings]

Sorry, but if they intend to not make any of the superheroes as live action, why keep holding on the rights? To prevent anyone from making the films, or what? So that we NEVER will see them on the big screen?
Warner Bros are not worthy of the rights, just as Thor was banned to earth and not longer worthy of Mjölnir. (I just had to make that superhero comparison)

We deserve to be treated better. And it's not just comic book fans that like sci fi, fantasy and adventure very much. Others do that too.
DC have heroes with different themes. It can be about space, mythology, ancient times, other dimensions etc. Everyone of them has a sense of wonder and escapism: Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Hawkman and so on.

Why should we be denied this?

 

[HighFivingMF]

Sorry, but if they intend to not make any of the superheroes as live action, why keep holding on the rights? To prevent anyone from making the films, or what? So that we NEVER will see them on the big screen?

Yeah, you're right. Those tens of thousands of people should lose their jobs for not giving us a Blue Beetle movie.

 

[Airwings]

Yeah, you're right. Those tens of thousands of people should lose their jobs for not giving us a Blue Beetle movie.

Oh, you are making a true fool of yourself now. You know just as anybody else which superheroes this is about

 

[MadVillainy]

Booster Gold?

 

[HighFivingMF]

Oh, you are making a true fool of yourself now. You know just as anybody else which superheroes this is about

 

[The Sage]

Booster Gold or Blue Beetle movies? Really?

 

[MadVillainy]

Booster Gold or Blue Beetle movies? Really?

HEY!!!!

Those are 2 very viable properties!

 

[The Morningstar]

Did you forget V For Vandetta, RED, Constantine, The Losers, Watchmen, and Jonah Hex? WB has been skirting around their superhero movies for years except for Superman, Batman, and (recently) GL. But to keep on ignoring other properties like WW, Flash, and even JLA is ridiculous. WB should embrace what they have, instead of treating their superhero properties with skepticism and rejection. Marvel is doing their part, but WB has so many characters (and none of them licensed to other studios) but chose to ignore most of them as well.

None of those were truly great adaptations though. And RED was RED in name only.

Don't get me wrong I liked V and Watchmen.

But I mean, get someone like Gilliam or Del Toro on Sandman or Lucifer. Get someone like Cronenberg or Fincher on 100 Bullets. Treat this adaptations as prestige movies with top quality filmmakers behind them. Not just studio money makers. They should think outside the box.

 

[cherokeesam]

They've already been thinking outside the box for years. And failing.

It's high time they start thinking INSIDE the box, and show some damn faith in their own properties and take their superheroes at face value, the way Marvel (and Sony and Fox) do.

 

[Lobo]

Booster Gold or Blue Beetle movies? Really?

Solo no, but together hell yes! A Blue and Gold movie would be an epic of epic epicness!

 

[Raiden]

None of those were truly great adaptations though. And RED was RED in name only.

Don't get me wrong I liked V and Watchmen.

But I mean, get someone like Gilliam or Del Toro on Sandman or Lucifer. Get someone like Cronenberg or Fincher on 100 Bullets. Treat this adaptations as prestige movies with top quality filmmakers behind them. Not just studio money makers. They should think outside the box.

But why should they keep making Vertigo movies, but ignoring the majority of their superhero properties? They have no problem making movies based on Jonah Hex and The Losers, but afraid to make an adaptation based on WW and Flash? It's ridiculous.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Jonah Hex and The Losers don't cost over 100 million dollars to make.

 

[Micromind]

Instead of getting disappointed by GL's B.O. performance WB should focus on the next DC superhero movie, Flash and then make a Justice League movie, as Batman and Superman and their origins are already known to everyone they can use them directly in the Justice league movie, just show how the JL was formed, Green Lantern is already known to GA, so after Flash they can make the full JL movie, and introduce Wonder Woman in the JL movie .

 

[The Morningstar]

Jonah Hex and The Losers don't cost over 100 million dollars to make.

Exactly. They should make top quality, modest budget movies. Movies that don't HAVE to be blockbusters.

Don't get me wrong I really, really, really want to see a Flash movie and a Captain Marvel movie. But not if they are gonna be the same quality as Green Lantern.

 

[Octoberist]

That's why slot if the movies that WB are greenlighting right now (300 prequel, Akira, Arthur and Lancelot) are all 90 mill each.

 

[Captain DC]

I'm confident it's going to be just Batman and Superman movies, mixed in with some much lesser DC properties (like the ones mentioned this week).

There's no more hope for a DC film universe like Marvel. Green Lantern ruined it.

 

[superion]

None of those were truly great adaptations though. And RED was RED in name only.

Don't get me wrong I liked V and Watchmen.

But I mean, get someone like Gilliam or Del Toro on Sandman or Lucifer. Get someone like Cronenberg or Fincher on 100 Bullets. Treat this adaptations as prestige movies with top quality filmmakers behind them. Not just studio money makers. They should think outside the box.

What makes anyone think these top notch directors have any interest in any of these properties? I remember people used to say Spielberg should do the Captain America movie because of the somewhat similar Indiana Jones movies instead they ended up with Joe Johnston the 2nd rate Spielberg protege. Spielberg obviously had better things to do.

 

[HighFivingMF]

There's no more hope for a DC film universe like Marvel. Green Lantern ruined it.

You know what else probably ruined it? That they weren't planning on doing one.