itt: consternation and wailing about Zach Snyder's upcoming SUPERMAN/BATMAN film/sequel to MAN OF STEEL -- official title: BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

I GOT IT. BRING BACK CLOONEY.

i think they should cast a woman in the role of batman. anne hathaway maybe. women have been known to successfully play hamlet.

would see a superman vs peter pan movie

wall street 3 should involve superman

some kinda prophecy going on here from William Goldman in 1983

Jaws began the present cycle: It did business far beyond what anyone dreamed possible. Then Star Wars shattered all the records set by Jaws. And now every executive in Hollywood is trying to figure out how the hell to topple Star Wars. Which, of course, is only right and proper: It’s their job. But in their quest, they have altered the tradition of ploughing back profits in pursuit of an entire range of different sorts of films. Right now—today—comic-book pictures are only breeding more comic-book pictures, something that has never happened to this extent before. Will the ecology shift back to what it’s been? “Absolutely,” the studio executives will tell you. When? “When the public demands it.” Of course, there’s a certain element of truth to that—but basically it’s a cop-out. Change will only come when the executives stop ignoring the churning in their guts. These are bright people, never forget that. They don’t personally enjoy the movies they’re okaying. Do you think they’re happy going home and saying to their families, “Hey, guess what, a great thing happened today, we decided to make Megaforce.” The ecology can only shift when these people decide that there’s got to be more to life than a remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. When they suck it up and decide to find material like Ordinary People and Cuckoo’s Nest. But this summer’s three big pictures so far are E. T., Rocky III, and Star Trek II. So, for the present, I think we may as well prepare ourselves for seven more Star Wars sequels and half a dozen quests involving Indiana Jones. By the end of the decade, we may well be seeing E. T. Meets Luke Skywalker.

Cowboy and Alien

comiccon culture is a scourge

i wish THIS summer's three big pictures were e.t. star trek 2 and rocky 3

Al otm

The ecology can only shift when these people decide that there’s got to be more to life than a remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. When they suck it up and decide to find material like Ordinary People and Cuckoo’s Nest.

You know, I can't pretend I'd go to the movies more often in that ecology.

well it'd probably still cost $10.50

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rofl

marvelous

BATASTIC

The thread title is definitely OTM right now.

*does batdance*

Oh I want Prince to do the theme for this one so bad.

my guess is we'll have to settle for Robin Thicke

"Inspired by Prince"

"music inspired by the music inspired by the film 'batman'"

"movie inspired by Prince's Batdance"

ben affleck has a problem reading lines and knowing what his eyes should be doing

in other words he seems like the kind of guy who is very successful doing something he isn't really any good at

also, this is the sound of air wheezing out of a beat-up old tire

maybe they'll go retro with his costume and give him the og batman suit, with the big pointy ears

http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/891/891730/batman-dc-comics-20080717031318430-000.jpg

batman camel toe

toeman

Way too many self-immolation gifs on my facebook feed.

Why he's taking to the role like a charm!

http://blindscribblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Affleck-Superman.jpg

Wait hold on.

nothing says "gravitas" more than ben affleck

Can't wait for the contrarian Slatepitch articles in favor of this

I woulda thought getting Clooney back to play an ageing Bruce Wayne would have been a good idea...

baffleck

good casting imo

So I guess this won't be in the same continuity as the latest Batman movies, and Affleck is gonna play Bruce Wayne? Because if it is the same continuity, how would explain how newbie John Blake suddenly becoming 10 years older and a "seasoned crime fighter"? Or maybe they'll try to come up with a reason why Bruce Wayne has to come out of retirement?

I wouldn't worry about it

I mean, at least its not Christian Bale.

http://i.imgur.com/DaTTbc2.gif

so DC's response to the avengers movies is to go all justice league, is that it? yeesh.

exactly how long has the wonder woman movie been in the works, by the way

IDRIS ELBA FOR WONDER WOMAN

Wasn't there some failed attempt to launch a new WW series a couple of years ago?

If they ever actually produce a Wonder Woman movie, I really hope they'll cast a someone who actually is tall and has muscles and looks like an Amazon princess, instead of taking the Scarlet Johansson route.

totally knew this would be on deviantart

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/085/1/1/wonder_woman_gina_carano_superman_by_christinalongmeadow-d5zdm2j.png

ya I was gonna say, if they can't get Idris Elba they need to go for Gina Carano

Wasn't there some failed attempt to launch a new WW series a couple of years ago?

There was a movie project with Joss Whedon attached to write and direct, which he eventually walked away from because apparently he and WB just had fundamentally different conceptions of the character. That kinda tanked the whole deal.

There was also this atrocious attempt to launch a new series on NBC two years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwUs3g2GHIs

realistically tho, j lawrence is the only bankable wonder woman, right

let's see what happens when Chloe Moretz grows up

Gina Carano would be perfect, imo.

(as DJP says)

After seeing Haywire, I can't imagine anyone else playing the role aside from Idris Elba

One of the (many) ways that dc’s apeing of the marvel movie phenomenon falls flat is a need to cast stars as leads instead of letting the lead become a star in the role.

counterpoint: gal gadot?

Right and her and khal drogomofo are the huge wins! Quit hiring names for Batman and Superman! Find non Americans!

Shoulda got Crispin Glover

speaking of crispin glover is there a thread for this upcoming joaquin phoenix thing? it's cool that DC finally got the memo about setting their scenarios in a genre other than "cape opera" and i for one look forward to Taxi Driver But With The Joker

I think Joker looks horrible

well, yeah. like, as a movie to watch and enjoy sure. but as part of WB/DC’s decades-long program of inventing new ways to faceplant you gotta admit it’s pretty inspired.

fair

Supposedly Joker movie is all Joaquin Phoenix doing street clown performing and kids on the street get more and more violent and disruptive to his gig but he keeps a-smiling.

Roll credits

I bet the line "Didn't they tell you, the Joker is wild?" appears at least three times

Todd Phillips:

We didn’t follow anything from the comic books, which people are gonna be mad about. We just wrote our own version of where a guy like Joker might come from. That’s what was interesting to me. We’re not even doing Joker, but the story of becoming Joker. It’s about this man.

Congratulations again, DC.

i'm still probably too hopeful for this to be good considering it's from the director of The Hangover movies

I saw Shazam last night. It wasn't that good, but it was OK. So many desperate, totally gratuitous references to Superman and Batman in it.

we have a thread specifically for that movie btw xp

I dare you to anticipate Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips's JOKER

Oh, I didn't realize we'd decided to hone in on a particular instance of DC's cinematic haplessness.

you posted in that thread several times!

Goddamn it, I forgot to consult my .xls file again.

Watched the first half of shazam and totally lost interest, even when DC more or less get the execution right, it's garbage in practice because of the scripting/acting/need to make everything pointlessly dark.

Like sivana's dad really needs to hate him from the cradle?

the general concept for Shazam was good - Big-esque wish-fulfilment comedy in superhero clothing - but crucially, it wasn't really funny. And it needed to be an hour shorter

and less cruel! Why are all these fucking DC movies so vapidly sadistic?
oh right: geoff johns
http://www.outrightgeekery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Analysis-of-a-Creator-Geoff-Johns-Infinite-Crisis-768x560.jpg

confusing violence with pathos is the dc way these past few decades

Yeah, I expected Shazam to be a lot funnier. I couldn't tell which was more shoehorned in, the jokes or the pathos.

Guys, he was blowing a bubble on the poster. Surely that was enough levity to offset the fact that he carved a lightning bolt into his chest with a rusty corkscrew as penance for having failed to prevent Mary Marvel from having her spine ripped out by an inexplicably-evil Tawky Tawny (sorry for spoilers).

i genuinely don't know if you're being serious!

i had to google it!

It's just sad that we're living in a time where any such scenario could ever possibly exist outside of a pubescent edgelord's dog-eared notebook.

Geoff Johns uses a laptop iirc

watching shazam at the moment (it’s... adequate!) and i can’t stop thinking about how much the kid who plays billy batson looks like arya from game of thrones

I thought that as well! I even looked to see if they were related.