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 mean was the executive who said "just let nolan do what he wants for TDKR, we'll just rooty toot reboot two years later, spidey style" and the executive who said "shit look at what marvel's doing, we gotta have an avengers fast!" the same executive?

yeah, GL was kind of an odd choice to lead with.

Who is the modern Schumacher?

Ryan Murphy?

What else were they gonna lead with though? Flash? Martian Manhunter? Said it before but DC has the #1 & #2 heroes and then Marvel has like #3-15.

wouldn't it have been better to have Gordon-Levitt show up as The New Batman and allow SOME degree of continuity with their established world, rather than ask us to accept a new batman before we're even totally on board with supes?

yeah the nolan stuff really is an obstacle for them whereas even though it's not a shared cinematic universe or whatever if hugh jackman's wolverine or some white guy's spiderman showed up in the avengers they would fit right in.

even if they do manage to make a decent hit out of this, marvel's gonna be all "hey bats vs supes, cool story, bro, fyi we're sitting on so many millions that we're actually making an ant-man movie cuz fuck it"

Flash? Martian Manhunter?

Superman is the obvious choice, except they'd screwed the pooch on that one too

but fwiw I think Flash would have been better than GL. An inherently more fun, more relatable (and probably better known) superhero

GL would have been great if they'd actually harnessed the visual possibilities of the ring (shame Marvel already had their mitts on Edgar Wright) instead of making a murky movie with more grumpy CGI aliens then inventive action sequences. And yeah, Flash would have been good but with TWO movies starring Quicksilver coming out before Batsvssupes he may get shunted to the CW like Hawkeye I mean Green Arrow.

it's kinda funny that they had whedon work on a wonder woman movie for awhile and then shelved it cuz they decided the smart thing to do w/ that property was to make it a david kelly tv lawyer drama.

hahaha dc just fucking up left and right

man marvel's stable is so good they've got fox and sony sending them checks on the reg for franchises they don't want to let go of, while dc's just gonna take a big dump in 2016 and hope we like it cuz otherwise they got nothin.

oh wait there is joseph gordon levitt's sandman

it bums me out cuz I find the DC stuff so much more inherently interesting than Marvel

They should just trash it all and do a Jack Kirby's New Gods adaptation. Ving Rhames as Darkseid, Ryan Reynolds as Mister Miracle, Tom Cruise as Metron, Meryl Streep as Granny Goodness.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/a-look-at-all-the-dc-comics-films-rumored-and-in-development/

lol according to this they're thinking about breaking Flash out of a Justice League movie shot back-to-back with SupesVsBats...but there's also a CW show coming out this fall.

a constantine pilot's also been ordered by nbc. jesus, how is it that half the stuff on this page is from vertigo?

ed asner will always be the definitive granny goodness

"jesse eisenberg as lex luthor" is trending, alot of ppl thinking it's a random choice apparently. yeah, jesse eisenberg as some smart, arrogant asshole - what is that gonna be like?

lol Phil

i haven't watched smallville but jesse eisenberg feels like a very smallville choice - wish they'd picked someone like joaquin phoenix, who actually scans older than superman.

supes vs big business rather than some fuckin' internet start-up kid

also I REALLY wanted to see Joaquin with a shaved head

supes vs big business rather than some fuckin' internet start-up kid

um

What happened to the "Justice League" movie?

supposedly being shot back-to-back with batsvssupes, esp now that that's been pushed back to 2016

And we all know Lex will be some super-genius nihilist hacker in this, right?

shakey not sure if you're "um" is in regards to facebook being big business, i just mean lex should be like an oil tycoon imo

superman flying into this window to slam the CEO against the wall

http://cdn.home-designing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tumblr-newyork-office.jpg

http://cdn.home-designing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tumblr-newyork-office.jpg

shakey not sure if you're "um" is in regards to facebook being big business

yeah mostly. I would be cool with Superman smashing some Google shit

A friend just suggested Shia LeBeouf as the Joker, and why not.

GL would have been great if they'd actually harnessed the visual possibilities of the ring

Yeah I don't think the problem was picking a relatively low profile hero (how many members of the general public seriously gave a shit about Iron Man in 2007?) it was making a crap movie.

"STOP DATAMINING NOW!!!"

"heheheheh....they CLICKED the terms of service, Superman! It was ALLL legal!"

A friend just suggested Shia LeBeouf as the Joker, and why not.

― Ned Raggett

No one would dare put the Joker in another movie for like ten more years surely.

ben affleck would have to fucking OWN the role to get a chance to staredown joker

but if america is 100% on board with ben after Justice League then I'd guess he'd face Joker pretty quick - it would be more than ten years after TDK before he'd get his own movie anyway!

Google is obviously part of Brainiac anyway

curious if they're going to "introduce" the concept of batman to the supes-world or act like he's already a known public figure - who just didn't die in TDKR.

like, "lois, the trail leads to gotham city" "but clark...that's BATMAN country!" *cut to Ben Affleck staring at a bay of computers in a cave*

they should just go full camp and cast Matt Damon as Robin at this point

michael douglas as alfred, in that case

Sandra Bernhard as Catwoman

I admit I'm just free associating now

I don't care what happens with this movie but anything that pisses off comix nerds is a good thing IMO

I hope they make the next Batman after this a literal mutant half man/half bat who plays smooth jazz saxophone

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/2009/davidsanborn_1_jk.jpg

david sanborn is ready!

I was going to say I hope they make the next Avengers movie a 3 hour orgy but that would satisfy way too many people on tumblr

I hope they make the next Batman after this a literal mutant half man/half bat who plays smooth jazz saxophone

You're thinking of this guy:

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090209150905/marvel_dc/images/6/69/Man-Bat_Vol_1_1.jpg

Ha I knew someone would bring up manbat

Seriously though, the whole orphan billionaire origin for Batman had been done to death. Let's reimagine the whole thing. Bruce Wayne is a struggling jazz saxophonist in debt to the mob. To pay them back he's forced to rob some valuable chemicals from a science lab. Of course, everything goes wrong and there's an explosion and he's assumed dead. What no one knows is that the lab was doing experiments on bats and during the explosion he was exposed to a mutagenic bat DNA serum which transformed him into a bat human hybrid. Now he seeks vengeance by night, flying over the skies of Gotham and fighting crime. By day he rests in a dilapidated old jazz club called The Cave, where his former manager Alfred (the only one who knows his identity) meets with him and helps him out with various tasks. This shit writes itself!

oh wait there is joseph gordon levitt's sandman

This sounds like yet another terrible idea. Keep in mind that I tried to write a script for a Sandman movie at age 15... did not get far.

morpheus is just such a passive character aside from his initial "back from the grave, gotta find my swag" journey in the first few issues that I don't know how you make him work in a film. you can't just show him winking at shakespeare for a 15 minute interlude. as insane as jon peters' "make him fight a giant spider" thing was in the late '90s, he is gonna have to fight something.