https://variety.com/exec/toby-emmerich/Emmerich signed a multi-year contract extension in the summer of 2021, which has him well-positioned for leading the studio at Warner Bros. Discovery, the new entity that will result from AT&T spinning off WarnerMedia and merging it with Discovery in 2022.
https://deadline.com/2022/04/warner...r-closes-altering-media-landscape-1234997171/(For now, the Discovery guard is largely in charge under CEO David Zaslav. Toby Emmerich, Casey Bloys and Channing Dungey, heads of Warner Bros Pictures, HBO and Warner Bros TV, respectively, have gotten votes of confidence.)
You also need to be aware that Emmerich and top execs also have agreements with Hollywood rags to run stories to their liking in exchange for "exclusive" stories about new movies etc . So put that into the mix and you really can't believe anything you read.Remember the "they're just waiting for Toby's contract to expire in November?" talk?
https://variety.com/exec/toby-emmerich/
https://deadline.com/2022/04/warner...r-closes-altering-media-landscape-1234997171/
I bring this up just to reiterate that this is why y'all need to watch where you're getting news from. Because I've been seeing all these supposed rumors and "scoops" about how a Zaslav-backed restoration of the Snyderverse was totally happening behind the scenes for months now and that's why Zack Snyder had a Final Crisis comic in his photo or some producer posted something ominous on Vero, and that certainly doesn't seem true in light of all this. Hope can be a powerful thing but grifters love to prey on that for clout.
If he'd been bought out of his contract or had been terminated, I have to imagine that would've actually surfaced in any of the actual discussion about the regime change this week. Again, it could happen, but the only people I've seen still saying that are fan "news" outlets who desperately want him gone, but don't actually have any sort of actual intel.You also need to be aware that Emmerich and top execs also have agreements with Hollywood rags to run stories to their liking in exchange for "exclusive" stories about new movies etc . So put that into the mix and you really can't believe anything you read.
I mean c'mon "Emmerich has built a strong track record......blah blah blah" yeah right ! If that isn't the epitamie of a "puff piece" then I don't know what is.
In addition to that top execs in these publicly known situations, may also get positive feedback from their bosses before being fired in order for them to be able to get another job somewhere. There's no point publicly cutting them down as not good when you want to get rid of them. No one would hire them.
In addition to this the Discovery team need to keep some of the movie division in place to see how it all runs. So no rush to get rid of them yet. Hence the "For now".... title of that other piece.
So the argument can be shown in both directions.
I guess we'll really see where we stand early 2023, if his contract does go to end of 2022. If not before.
Sure, sure, wildcard, I get. But that's not what I've witnessed from the movement the past few months. People I'd seen had been acting like it was a given that Zaslav was a huge fan of Zack Snyder's stuff and that coming onboard he would dispose of Emmerich, Hamada, and everyone else who stood in Zack's way. In this very thread we'd had multiple theories that the reason Flash was delayed was because Zaslav had ordered it to be reshot to accommodate the return of the Snyderverse, along with the other supposed hints I'd mentioned ("Zack tweeted a photo of Final Crisis! It's happening!" "I saw a website say Dwayne Johnson is fighting behind the scenes to restore the Snyderverse! Even though he's never brought it up in interviews or social media!")First thing: Zaslav has always been a wild card in this situation. For the pro-Snyderverse community he has offered the hope that we could see continuation of what Snyder had planned, more or less. But none of us truly has any idea how he views things, honestly. He might shake things up, or he might just adopt the good old boy club mentality and support Emmerich.
If Emmerich was a snake by getting his contract extended before the acquisition, and if Zaslav has very different plans, for all we know Zaslav might be keeping Emmerich around to basically humiliate him by having Emmerich dismantle whatever WB was planning and to pave the way for a major change of some sort. We need to wait and see. Hopefully there will be an announcement on Monday.
Robert Meyer Burnett does know the film industry. He weighs in on Toby Emmerich’s contract extension. It’s a very short clip.
It sounds to me like RMB is suggesting that Emmerich went ahead and sought the extension from his buddies above him in the WB hierarchy (board of directors?) in anticipation that WBD wound not give him that extension. It would make it that much more expensive to buy out his contract, etc. And if this is true I’m sure he will be heavily marginalized during the remainder of his time at WBD. Especially with all the Discovery execs taking over.
/\THIS/\Forbes? LOL, you mean Scott Mendelson? He's more of a blogger than an industry insider, and even though he might claim to be pro-Snyderverse, the whole Snyder fan community and Zack himself has trashed him for some things he's said before.
ZSJL2 would be the Knightmare stuff, right? Which actors are not available? Only Gal Gadot could present a problem I think, the way she's getting booked up. But I don't know how big WW is in the Knightmare world. And the way Zack can shoot stuff in his backyard or a hotel room or on Zoom, he should be able to work her in if it's not a huge part. And I'm sure he could find another Amazon to take off the island and use if he had to substitute her.
I don't get in to the endless speculation based on hints, rumors and leaks. But I do believe in Never Say Never. Spider-Man 4 and 5 with Tobey were the big 'movies that got away' for me before. But now even those are potentially back on the table. And a recasting if need be if someone like Ezra is "unavailable" is not a nail in the coffin. MCU recast Hulk and Rhodey and just kept moving. Potter recast Dumbledore and kept moving.
I'm actually less worried about JL2 and JL3 than getting Snyder back to "Kevin Feige" the whole DCEU. They were earning a lot more money when he was there (counting MOS through Aquaman). He understands the canon, doesn't shy away from the weird stuff like Nolan and Reeves, and he knows how to design characters to be both faithful for fans and modernized enough to work for uninitiated audiences. The success of Aquaman compared to Green Lantern just shows what a positive impact he had on the public acceptance of the DC characters in film.
He has a lot more ideas than just JL2 and JL3. In most interviews he does, other ideas come up. He mentioned a Batfleck and Robin "flashback" HBO Max series last year. He mentioned doing a full Dark Knight Returns film adaptation. The Batfleck/Deathstroke movie was of course out there. I think a Man of Steel 2 with Brainiac was discussed. He discussed bringing Carrie Kelley into the universe as a new Robin. Of course he had plans for Martian Manhunter, John Stewart, the Atom. He has an entire dream DCEU in the planning stages that is far more what fans want than the Shazamverse, the Gunnverse or the garbage versions of Huntress and Black Canary introed in BOP. And the Reevesverse is just a dead end. It does nothing to enhance the shared universe of the DCEU and give us great team-up and crossover movies. If DCEU tried to do a Legion of Doom, they'd have to toss in their own Bat villains out of nowhere, and it would just ignite arguments over whether those or Reeves' were better. Developing a Batverse outside the DCEU is a disaster in the making. And with Reeves' movie unable to outgross Batman v Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman or Joker, and barely even going to outgross Suicide Squad, the money isn't there to justify breaking apart the shared universe.
Lol, ah okay, been really busy but I’ll give it a gander.No…the Forbes article was actually written by someone else.
Weird digs at Reeves aside, that ship has already sailed. If anyone thinks Discovery will be cancelling the Reevesverse stuff to bring back Snyder, I've got a bridge somewhere to sell them.
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