DC cinematic universe thread.

Ooops, forgot to plant a copy of Flash HISHE here..

It was wishful thinking.
Gadot is out.
As is Ezra Miller, but that's a bug "duh!".
Mamoa is out as Aquaman, but WB wants to reboot him into Lobo.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/gadot-miller-out-of-new-dc-universe/

Sweet merciful crap. Just keep Mamoa away from the camera, fer crissakes. Pretty much everything he touches turns to shite.

Joker 2 Cinematographer Teases "Risky" Sequel

It's a musical. My feelings towards musicals are slightly milder than Anthony Bourdain's thoughts about what he'd like to do to Henry Kissinger.

If (as I heavily expect) it's a fucked up musical like "Little Shop Of Horrors" or "Rocky Horror Picture Show" or "Phantom Of The Paradise" I'm all in.
It's Joker, it's not gonna be fucking "Momma Mia".

It should be 90% a shot for shot remake of A Star Is Born, and 10% insane graphic violence that makes people throw up in the theatre.

So no Pierce Brosnan as the Joker, then?

I think it’s Harlequin as Arthur’s psychiatrist who has fantasies about them doing Joker stuff. Then she breaks him out of Arkham.

The Brave And The Bold (the Bat-family movie) is being written by John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator, Skyfall).
So, we're getting Oscar caliber Batman.
Like the Nolans.

https://comicbookmovie.com/dc-films...nominee-to-write-dcu-reboot-a207635#gs.01wv3r

You forgot to add his tour de force featuring some of the cream of British acting, Star Trek Nemesis, the pinnacle of the movies and cruelly denied its rightful place at the top of the release charts by a romcom that must surely never be out of the top 10 streamed films.

How soon we forget. Or, at least try to.

Yeah, but there was some "Batman & Robin" shit going on there with the suits demanding "don't watch any Star Trek!! We don't want fandom shit in this one!! Mainstream audience!! Mainstream audience!! ".

Well, the JJ trilogy was written by Trekkies, and that hooked the mainstreamies just fine.
Suits are worthless idiots.

The Nolans wanted to do Batman and knew the source material, Logan famously didn't know Star Trek and just wanted to recreate TWOK so don't get a boner just yet.

See my post above yours.

Orci is the Trekkie, Kurtzman is just an opportunist and a cover artist. JJ turned Trek into Wars and mainstream audiences are dumb so they lapped it up, but each film had diminishing returns. Lindeloff was the one that thought it was a good idea to remake TWOK.

I stubbornly maintain Beyond was the best of the three, and the best overall since "First Contact".
The rubes didn't know what they were missing.

I agree. The problem is the Robert Meyer Burnett's (who I do enjoy listening to) of the world won't or can't move on and don't accept anything post Nemisis. They shit on Lower Decks even though there's some seriously good writing, it's the closest thing to Roddenberry Treek and bridges the gap between the old and the new.That keeps them from spending money and like it or not, we need them to keep the franchise alive.

I rewatched a bunch of the Burton and Nolan Batman films a few months back.

You know what?

The Dark Knight Rises is pretty shite, and I like the first two Burton movies better.

I agree with the bit I underlined.

A lot of what happens in "Rises" makes little sense other than to have twists
1. How does kid Talia succeed in jumping her way out of the pit when grown men routinely cannot?
2. How does recovering-from-a-broken-back Bruce succeed in jumping his way out of the pit when able-bodied men do not?
3. Why does Talia orchestrate the convoluted revenge scheme against Bruce that includes sleeping with her father's killer?
4. How do the financial powers that be believe that Bruce made the trades that bankrupted him when there was obviously a high-profile heist at the Gotham Stock Exchange where the bad guys did financial shenanigans? And when there's no sign that he himself did those trades, or any legitimate person acting on his behalf?
5. How does Bruce go from being broken such that he needs a cane just as a civilian to regular bat-stuff?
6. How could Gotham PD be so stupid that supposedly the entire police force (presumably at least a couple thousand people, possibly into the 10k range) goes into the tunnel to be trapped? How do those cops survive being trapped for more than a month to then be able to emerge in anything close to fighting shape? Why do none of the bad guys (or the good guys, for that matter) shoot people on the other side instead of bumrushing them?

There are probably a few other points that one could raise.

Yeah, but Dark Knight falls apart under logistics nitpicking too.
Joker would have needed a whole army guys to set up a lot of his shit.
But he treats his underlings like crap.
He even fucking kills 'em.

*Looks at how many Trumpers there still are*
Nevermind.....

Batman Begins is the best of the 3 in my humble opinion

It's certainly the most grounded.

Except that that microwave gun wouldn't selectively boil drinking water, and not hurt humans.
Humans would be popping like bloody water balloons.
Plus eggs in refrigerators would be popping, marshmallows would be inflating, TV dinners would be softening, ice cream would be bubbling, electronics would be frying, etc, etc, etc.

Other than THAT bit of SF presto-magic....

Missed opportunity

It was ultrasonic as I recall and had to be connected to the water supply in order to get it to work. (Mind you, anyone with the right kind of low-flow shower head would have gotten the same effect as the ultrasound had on the water.)

Nope.
Microwave.

James Gunn is making "The Authority" canon with the regular DCU.
The Engineer is going to be one of the villains, and will be played by Maria Gabriela de Faria.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/superman-legacy-casts-the-engineer/

Duh! She'll be a villain in "Superman Legacy" I mean.
Meaning Authority characters are already bleeding in.
Sorry, I was tired.