DC Movie Universe

[NASEDO]

Doubtful. If you know anything about Deadpool, you know that's a perfect casting.

I'm not a Deadpool fan, he's a ripoff of DeathStroke. Reynolds may have that wit, but he sucks as an actor in general. GL bombed so I hope movie studios go with a younger and better actor then Reynolds. He needs to stay away from Marvel/DC stuff.

 

[batfan08]

Jon Hamm for Batman; Armie Hammer for Barry Allen in the JLA movie!

 

[Bardoon]

Marvel's owned by Disney.

True, but like IrishJedi said, they appear to give Marvel and Kevin Feige free reign.

Besides, even when Disney acquired Marvel, they were doing damn well already in the movie, comic and toy business. Disney executives have followed the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" model well with Marvel. They purchased an ALREADY very successful company who was having amazing results in the film industry. Disney has little to do but just sit there and watch the profits roll in.

Plus, it gives Marvel what DC has had for decades. A multimedia giant that can help develop and further expand their licenses, characters and stories. Imagine a Marvel TV show on ABC...it can happen now more than likely because Disney owns ABC.

Disney has always been about creativity and "imagineering" as they like to call it. As long as they have executives in place to support that (and they have), Marvel will do just fine.

Unlike DC in which case Warner Bros. has been messing around with them for decades. The television shows and cartoons have been amazingly successful, the problem is when it comes to the movies.

 

[Alex Logan]

How about a JLA without Batman?

 

[intothevoid]

I wouldn't be very interested in a JLA without Batman tbh, I love his interaction with Supes and GL

 

[thenammagazine]

How about a JLA without Batman?

How about a BLT without the bacon?

Not only would that be a glaring hole in the film, but WB might likely piss off the established Batman fans who might pass out of spite. Not a good move given they're already treading water with every other superhero movie.

 

[CelticPredator]

I hate Lettuce and tomato,

 

[guyver1]

I would love a JLA movie, but the problem is they keep scrubbing the idea of a Flash or Wonder Woman movie, so it makes it tough!

 

[RyanSD]

Honestly, I don't see DC/WB doing what Marvel did. Whether they try or not remains to be seen. Marvel got it right by making the movies as if the characters already existed in a cohesive universe. DC/WB creators all seem to take 'creative liberties' with their projects isolate the characters and films.

Nolan's Bat-world is self contained and doesn't work in the larger DC universe. GL could've, but I don't know if they'll revisit the franchise any time soon considering the reception of the first film. MoS seems to be going down the Nolan path in making it gritty and dark, and I don't think that's going to work, IMO. I also don't think its part of the 'shared universe' from what Nolan and Snyder has said.

So they'd have to start from scratch. While starting with a JLA movie might work, because their heavy hitters are more well known to the general public, I don't think WB can pull it off.

 

[thenammagazine]

Honestly, I don't see DC/WB doing what Marvel did. Whether they try or not remains to be seen. Marvel got it right by making the movies as if the characters already existed in a cohesive universe. DC/WB creators all seem to take 'creative liberties' with their projects isolate the characters and films.

Nolan's Bat-world is self contained and doesn't work in the larger DC universe. GL could've, but I don't know if they'll revisit the franchise any time soon considering the reception of the first film. MoS seems to be going down the Nolan path in making it gritty and dark, and I don't think that's going to work, IMO. I also don't think its part of the 'shared universe' from what Nolan and Snyder has said.

So they'd have to start from scratch. While starting with a JLA movie might work, because their heavy hitters are more well known to the general public, I don't think WB can pull it off.

I still disagree. I think it could if the other superheroes don't arrive until after TDKR.

 

[tomandshell]

There is no DC Movie Universe. They are three months away from the end of a generation of cinematic Batman. Green Lantern crashed and burned upon arrival. They allowed Wonder Woman and Aquaman to be viewed as rejected TV pilot material. They have done nothing with The Flash. There only hope at this point is that moviegoers will warm up to yet another relaunch of Superman from a director with a less than perfect track record.

Compare this to what Marvel has planned and executed over the last five years, and DC doesn't deserve to be successful. If they had only had the vision and guts to do what Marvel did, they would be the ones looking at billions of dollars over the next decade. Instead they have to hope that Superman is enough of a hit that they will be able to take the profits and reboot every other hero in their library. But at this point, I don't even think they will try to pull off a shared cinematic universe the way that Marvel has done so brilliantly.

 

[karamazov80]

Jon Hamm for Batman; Armie Hammer for Barry Allen in the JLA movie!

That's not a bad idea. Would be a classic, 1960s-style JLA with those guys I think, but I could dig it.

How about a JLA without Batman?

The retconned history of the JLA a few years back (it may have been re-retconned since then, as DC tends to do every couple of years) had the original team consisting of GL, the Flash, Martian Manhunter, Black Canary, and Aquaman. I think it's kind of cool to think of the core JLA as not including the "Big Three," but in reality they were there at the beginning, and when people think of the JLA they almost inevitably think of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman as being a part of it. And the potential drawbacks financially of not including them would be too high for WB to risk, I bet. So, I don't see it happening.

 

[LoneWolf]

What happened to SuperMax? I thought that featured Green Arrow breaking out of prison, and some notable DC characters will appear in the movie as well. That would've been a good experiment, rather than have almost nothing on the table while Marvel rakes in all the moolah

 

[crows]

It's not just the characters but the right actors to play them.

Iron Man was a second tier who cares character untill Robert Downey Junior brought him to life in a fun way.

DC needs to do something. A JLA movie would be great.

They can also expand their Vertigo movies with Preacher, Sandman and a faithful full blown horror adaption of Swamp Thing.

I totally agree they should go the Vertigo route and do all those movies first. we definitely need Sandman and preacher a lot more than Justice league, I really wish we got Swamp Thing,
Maybe give us a Constantine Sequel, a Good one!
I would rather watch Constantine or Swamp thing than Justice league, seriously,

At this point, WB/DC may have to do it in reverse... which is develop a JLA film first, then spin potential individual franchises from that depending on how well it does. And if it's done right it would be absolutely huge, as in AVENGERS huge or even bigger. You're talking about Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and The Flash. These are all elite, top-tier comic characters. And it doesn't get any bigger than Bats and Supes.

The problem is they have no cohesive vision. They need someone like Marvel has in Kevin Feige to take the reigns and shephard it all. Nolan is not that person, because he shows an open distance from true comic book sensibilities. And I hope it isn't someone like Geoff Johns or Jim Lee, either... That would set up a total cluster____.

WB/DC is in a weird place with this right now. The Nolan Batman films are clearly not meant to take place in any shared DC film universe, the GL movie completely underwhelmed, Flash & Wonder Woman (once a Joss Whedon project) languish in development hell, and they're about to launch a Superman reboot produced by Nolan with a 3-picture deal with no indication of whether or not that could be part of a bigger DCU. Obviously, a successful Supes film would be the perfect kick-off and jump starter, but it's all an unknown. Like some have said, they seem to have no plan when it comes to a consolidated DC movie universe. And that's a damn shame, because unlike Marvel, DC controls the rights to ALL of their comic characters via WB.

I agree it would be easier for them to do Justice league now, and then some spin off sequels, they really Cannot do what Marvel Did, not only because they would be copying Marvel, but also because of the Fiasco that Green Lantern was,
I just think is a lot better and a lot easier to do Justice league first, or Only movie, What Marvel did was great, BUT that does not have to be what DC follows, They could simply do Justice league, they don't need all these spin off movies, make Justice league their own franchise, not being related to the other movies or anything, why do they need to have all these Flash or Wonder Woman movies to have Justice League? they can just make it,

of course they might try to do what Marvel did, specially for the money, but I think it would be smart to do it in reverse, in case one of the spin off movies is a flop it won't ruin the chance to have the Justice league movie

 

[galmando]

In order to make a JLA movie, they would need to intoduce all of the characters, which is why they would need the individual movies first

Superman and Batman would realistically be immune from this as their origin stories have been told to the wider movie going audience a few times already, but Flash, Wonder Woman and any other characters they may choose would need introductions that probably couldn't fit i to a 2 hour movie that has a bigger story to tell. I'd say GL could probably do with being re-introduced as well

I imagine DC's movie JLA team would definately include Supes, Bats and WW, then GL and Flash as very string maybes. No more than that though.

I'm not fully famialiar with the JLAs formation, is there an iconic story that could be adapted?

 

[crows]

I also think they can do the movie without batman, they did Avengers without Spiderman,
for the Justice league just get two lesser known not important characters like Hawkeye and Black Widow were for Avengers and problem solved

 

[CTO15]

I also think they can do the movie without batman, they did Avengers without Spiderman,
for the Justice league just get two lesser known not important characters like Hawkeye and Black Widow were for Avengers and problem solved

Black Widow and Hawkeye have had a longer history with the Avengers then Spider-Man has . Not to mention the Spider-Man right are owned by Sony, so there was no chance for Spider-Man to be in an Avengers movie

 

[IrishJedi]

I also think they can do the movie without batman, they did Avengers without Spiderman,
for the Justice league just get two lesser known not important characters like Hawkeye and Black Widow were for Avengers and problem solved

Wrong analogy. Batman is a founding member of the JLA, along with Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern. Those core characters (and their inner dynamics) are critical to the whole thing. If you're not going to have at least the Big 5 in a JL movie then there is no reason to do it at all.

And, for the record, I've always hated the idea of adding Spider-Man to The Avengers anyway. It was just fan-pandering. Same as Wolverine. Marvel took a team unit that made sense and just made it an All-Star ensemble of their most popular characters. It was never designed to be that way. The Justice League is different. It was founded by the main DC players.

 

[karamazov80]

I think the fact that Spider-Man and Wolverine were/are regular members of the Avengers is a total embarrassment for Marvel. Joe Q and everyone else involved should be ashamed of themselves for that.

 

[IrishJedi]

I think the fact that Spider-Man and Wolverine were/are regular members of the Avengers is a total embarrassment for Marvel. Joe Q and everyone else involved should be ashamed of themselves for that.

Quesada is apparently ashamed of nothing, though.