JUSTICE LEAGUE movie

[thenammagazine]

Re: Christopher Nolan's Justice League?

If they section off MoS from the Batman reboot in 2014 and then that from the upcoming JLA, JLA will wind up flopping harder than Green Lantern given there'll be zero audience investment in the movie versions of the characters.

 

[batfan08]

Re: Christopher Nolan's Justice League?

 

[tomandshell]

Re: JUSTICE LEAGUE movie (Summer 2013)

Sounds like WB/DC are looking to get this project going again. Variety is reporting that they've hired a new writer. This doesn't surprise me, although it's too bad they won't lay the groundwork with individual films the way Marvel did before Avengers.

 

[thenammagazine]

Re: JUSTICE LEAGUE movie (Summer 2013)

Sounds like WB/DC are looking to get this project going again. Variety is reporting that they've hired a new writer. This doesn't surprise me, although it's too bad they won't lay the groundwork with individual films the way Marvel did before Avengers.

So which gets merged into which?

https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110434&page=8

 

[IrishJedi]

Re: JUSTICE LEAGUE movie (Summer 2013)

Sounds like WB/DC are looking to get this project going again. Variety is reporting that they've hired a new writer. This doesn't surprise me, although it's too bad they won't lay the groundwork with individual films the way Marvel did before Avengers.

I actually don't think they need to. Besides, that would take years and years. This way, a solid JL film could potentially spin off the separate franchises.

This is a good move. But its success will depend on the talent involved.

 

[tomandshell]

Sounds like the other thread is the right one.

 

[thenammagazine]

Re: JUSTICE LEAGUE movie (Summer 2013)

I actually don't think they need to. Besides, that would take years and years. This way, a solid JL film could potentially spin off the separate franchises.

This is a good move. But its success will depend on the talent involved.

Disagree. It isolates the potential of other projects already in development and will do nothing but confuse the general audience. "Why isn't the Superman in Justice League played by Henry Cavill?" Same question for the rebooted Batman in 2014. Not only is it a wasted opportunity to connect a cinematic DCU, but it'll hinder the project more than help it.

 

[KneelBeforrSmallville]

But they have already created so many other incarnations of the characters throughout the years it be impossiblefor them to not confuse general audiences it seems like. I mean Marvel movies for the most part are newer, they only had a few reboots/actor changes. Were DC has like a new one every few years, so many batmans & supermans.

If they can somehow get an amazing cast & crew to meld all the worlds together and create a cinematic DCU, then id love it!! But it just seems WB cant pull it off.

 

[IrishJedi]

Oh, don't get me wrong... I do think they should tie MoS and the Batman reboot into this. I just don't think we also need separate Flash, Wonder Woman and another GL flick, etc. leading into JL.

 

[thenammagazine]

But they have already created so many other incarnations of the characters throughout the years it be impossiblefor them to not confuse general audiences it seems like. I mean Marvel movies for the most part are newer, they only had a few reboots/actor changes. Were DC has like a new one every few years, so many batmans & supermans.

If they can somehow get an amazing cast & crew to meld all the worlds together and create a cinematic DCU, then id love it!! But it just seems WB cant pull it off.

Difference being, they'll have overlapping storylines with the same characters played by different actors. So using past movies as an example isn't really a like comparison. It would've been like seeing Charlie Sheen as Tony Stark in Avengers, with Downey Jr. resuming the role in Iron Man 3.

Oh, don't get me wrong... I do think they should tie MoS and the Batman reboot into this. I just don't think we also need separate Flash, Wonder Woman and another GL flick, etc. leading into JL.

It couldn't hurt though and would give them the Avengers competition they're looking for (which is why this whole thing is on the table again to begin with).

 

[KneelBeforrSmallville]

Difference being, they'll have overlapping storylines with the same characters played by different actors. So using past movies as an example isn't really a like comparison. It would've been like seeing Charlie Sheen as Tony Stark in Avengers, with Downey Jr. resuming the role in Iron Man 3.



It couldn't hurt though and would give then the Avengers competition they're looking for (which is why this whole thing is on the table again to begin with).

i like your camparison lol, BUT the Iron Mans and Avengers are connected through continuity and the same universe. We dont know yet if WB will have the same for these upcoming movies.

 

[thenammagazine]

i like your camparison lol, BUT the Iron Mans and Avengers are connected through continuity and the same universe. We dont know yet if WB will have the same for these upcoming movies.

They are but they aren't. We've already heard that the events in Avengers won't really affect IM3. Which was why I used that in the comparison vs. previous IM movies. Besides, I think audience expectation will already be there anyway, with Marvel pulling it off. People will look to and expect WB to do the same. Bale's Batman might be more forgivable (assuming Nolan doesn't establish a new carryover Batman at the end of TDKR), with everybody and their grandmother attached to Nolan's films going on record as this closing out the Bale Batman.

 

[karamazov80]

Marvel's slow burn approach proved very effective for them, but as I posted before, unless DC does it the right way, that approach might only serve to backfire on them. If they were gonna produce more Green Lantern-quality films as a potential lead-in to a JLA movie, then they would probably be better off just doing a full blown JLA movie out the gate. Because the expectations otherwise would be of a mediocre ensemble piece, and it could potentially flop. Marvel's approach worked because the lead-in films were good for the most part.

 

[thenammagazine]

Marvel's slow burn approach proved very effective for them, but as I posted before, unless DC does it the right way, that approach might only serve to backfire on them. If they were gonna produce more Green Lantern-quality films as a potential lead-in to a JLA movie, then they would probably be better off just doing a full blown JLA movie out the gate. Because the expectations otherwise would be of a mediocre ensemble piece, and it could potentially flop. Marvel's approach worked because the lead-in films were good for the most part.

Disagree. Looking at what they'd throw at the budget, for JLA to turn out a flop like Green Lantern, it would be a commercial failure across the board and likely affect future DC projects.

 

[KneelBeforrSmallville]

Either way WB/DC needs to truely step up and make these epic films. Marvel did it there way, its time DC did it theres. Im not trying to wait 10 years for a JLA buildup. I mean i could wait, but i dont want to. Knowing WB it will take 2-3 years per film, and they will wait to greenlight each to see what box office results they see.

They could have Batman Reboot & JLA movie combine into 1. Justice League #1 could be used as a pretty good template for a movie treatment, you know the characters but you dont need to .ya know.

 

[devilof76]

I think JLA would be a good place to reboot from. Start there and if the film is worth a damn, satellite the individual franchises from there. If they used Cavill again, it would have at least that connection, but Man of Steel would have to be great for them to even bother.

 

[karamazov80]

Disagree. Looking at what they'd throw at the budget, for JLA to turn out a flop like Green Lantern, it would be a commercial failure across the board and likely affect future DC projects.

Well like Devil is suggesting I think, the JLA movie itself would have to be good on some level to succeed no matter when or how it was released. Even if it's just a visceral thrill like the Bayformers movies. If it misses the mark in the ways that GL did across the board, then nothing could save it. The key to Marvel was making good movies and slowly building up hype. You need the former to achieve the latter, and that means having the vision to put the right creative people in place. DC hasn't shown they can do that beyond Nolan. Hell, they had Joss Whedon in for Wonder Woman, and got rid of him

 

[hunnipot85]

No Reynolds please

 

[crows]

and the thing is, not every marvel movie was that good, they were not bad but, for example i HATED Iron man 2, I didnt care for Capt America, Hulk was just okay for me, DC doesnt even have to make these amazing bigger than life movies, they just have to make decent enough movies to do Justice league and not screw up, how hard is that? That's what Marvel did, decent movies to create Avengers,

 

[devilof76]

Well like Devil is suggesting I think, the JLA movie itself would have to be good on some level to succeed no matter when or how it was released. Even if it's just a visceral thrill like the Bayformers movies. If it misses the mark in the ways that GL did across the board, then nothing could save it. The key to Marvel was making good movies and slowly building up hype. You need the former to achieve the latter, and that means having the vision to put the right creative people in place. DC hasn't shown they can do that beyond Nolan. Hell, they had Joss Whedon in for Wonder Woman, and got rid of him

People know who Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are. To a lesser extent, Green Lantern and Flash too. They don't need an introduction.

A badass JLA movie would carry itself. Studios need to stop using hype as a crutch for their lack of a clue as to what is good and what isn't. How on Earth Batman Begins ever made it to the big screen will forever be a mystery to me. Dumb luck, I'm guessing.

No Reynolds please