My emphases in red... I'm glad to hear we're going to see more of the DC pantheon, though I question the wisdom of "going dark" as a blanket strategy. I'm not sure a dark Superman is going to work. It also seems from the comments here that Bryan Singer won't be getting the call for the next Superman (nor, I presume, will Brandon Routh). That's too bad; I really liked 'Superman Returns,' even it was perhaps a little too derivative. I was looking forward to seeing what Singer would do on his second outing. Bring on Green Lantern, the Flash, and Wonder Woman!
I agree that they could really overdo the "dark" angle....especially in terms of bringing together a team of mal-adjusted folks when they do have a twam-up....part of the thrill of a S/B team-up is the contrast between the "boy scout" and the vigilante. I want to a a movie of "The Question" damnit, with Jeffery Combs playing the part! I wonder who can do a good Wonder Woman if they didn't like Whedon's vision? There's not that many people out there doing a good female action hero... If they are still envisioning a JLA movie down the road, don't you have to establish Jonn at some point?
20 more years of development hell for Superman, courtesy of a bunch Hollywood "high-concept" types, here we come again.
Meh. I'm getting tired of comic book movies.One or two per year is enough. There has been a deluge for the last 2-3 years.
That's just part of the overall strategy. They are also going to release single character movies building up to multi-character movies. Didn't care for it myself, having it be a sequel to Superman II (1980) while at the same time ignoring the films that came after Superman II didn't really work. And considering the new single-story to multi-story approach Superman would better off starting from scratch.
Besides Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and The Flash, I think doing a Supergirl movie might be kind of cool. As for Wonder Woman, I really hope it does well, but female leads in action movies have not favored this particular genre. Electra flopped, and so did Catwoman, though they both had pretty big stars playing the leads. In fact, the only two woman who have found success doing action movies where they were the lead actress are Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider, and Kate Beckensale in Underworld. Hmm...Kate might actually work as Wonder Woman...
Or most DC characters, for that matter. DC isn't "dark." Batman has more in common with a Marvel character than most DC characters.
I DEMAND A WONDER TWINS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't like the Superman movie. Loved Batman. Gonna see Iron Man on DVD. Spiderman got boring. Hulk was stupid.
Superhero movies are a bad idea in the long run. Hollywood likes to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and that means dumbing down plots and characters or they'll pick the completely wrong director for the films (I love Sam Raimi, but he shouldn't have gotten Spider-Man; Tim Burton's attempts were fucking awful. Yeah, I said it.). That, or I've outgrown comic books...
Easy. Kill Lois. But with Superman being so extreme in his abilities, it'll end up leading him to the brink of evil before being brought back to all that is good. They both sound like obvious cliches to be avoided at all costs, but I wouldn't be surprised what with laziness being the norm in Hollywood nowadays.
That's never stopped anyone before. Actually, by that logic Batman Begins should never have been made after Batman & Robin was so massively bad.
JLU did a fairly good take on it by having Luthor convince Supes that he was complicit in Lutor's evil because he wouldn't kill him (Luthor). the trick is to tell that story without any of your major characters actually getting killed.
Punisher is Marvel Comics, and a new Punisher movie (albeit without Thomas Jane) is being released soon...
Vertigo is DC. That's pretty damn dark. I'd agree with you that DC isn't as dark or gritty as Marvel for the most part, but they were the ones who really brought that genre to the forefront with the Watchmen, Batman Returns and later Kingdom Come. DC in the modern parlance often is a story about pantheons and demigods, and those can be plenty dark. Hell, in the last few years they killed off Blue Beetle, Batman's Brother Eye turning on the superheroes, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman 'retire', and the current arc has them destroying Kirby's Fourth World (the New Gods), Wonder Woman becoming anti-life, and the Martian Manhunter being killed. As always, it depends on the talents of the people doing the interpretation. For example, I don't think most people would have thought the 60s and 70s Batman could have been cast as a 'dark' figure after going so thoroughly camp for decades.
Probably boarding pretty soon. But I think I agree with everything here. And I'll have to dig up the "I'm a Marvel & I'm a DC" parody of the Mac ads on YouTube.
Apparently Warner's forgetting that comic book movies are either epic hits or utter failures. For every good one of 'em I've seen, I've probably seen two terrible ones.
Perhaps not a darker Superman...but a darker and more dangerous Luthor, as seen in this story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Luthor:_Man_of_Steel In the comics, Lana Lang is now in charge of Lexcorp and actually accomplished something that would have banished Superman from Earth forever, had it not been for a cheaply written deaux ex machina. I believe Lana is becoming a powerful adversary for Superman and, to judge from this first confrontation, a far more dangerous one than Luthor.
