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

Whatever the reasoning DC has for moving BvS, I like the fact that they choose to do it the week after GotG broke all those audience records. That just screams 'ok, we're screwed...'

I assume the name of the movie is actually "Venom/Carnage" or "Venom & Carnage", since they are two different characters? Still sounds pretty stupid though.

No, there was a press release or leak or something earlier this week and the title was written out exactly that way: Venom Carnage.

it's nice to know superhero films will go on after we're employed / have tenure / are dead

Sony's "ok guess we ran Spidey into the ground, let's put him on the backburner and make Enemies Of Spidey, Ladyfriend of Spidey and Two Guys Who Dress Like Spidey. Then people will be jazzed for Spidey."

i assume untitled fox superhero is channing tatum's gambit, assuming the world digs him saying "ma cher" and throwing playing cards in x-men apocalypse

these movies are only going to get shittier now that Orci and Kurtzman (he will be responsible for Venom Carnage) are moving into directing

i hope kurtzman realizes that a) spidey should be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine and b) in movies where spidey's not on the screen, the other characters should be saying "where's spidey?"

omg i thought you were guys were kidding about VENOM CARNAGE

I see no reason why it shouldn't be one word

VENOMCARNAGE

They've also changed the title of Sinister Six to Rhino Electro Green Goblin Three Other Villians Who Are Also Spider Mans Villians.

CARNVAGENOM

directed by derek jarman iirc

It's thrilling to watch this degree of clueless fumbling when it involves millions and millions of dollars.

I find it weird that Drew Goddard (who has a fairly good rep up to now) jumped ship from Marvel to the ailing Spiderverse. I guess with Whedon in charge over there he can always come back though

dude might just be ambitious - if you can pull off the first villain-centric superhero movie, that's quite the feat

The only angle I see beyond $$$ (similar to the puzzling recent migration of Marvel-centric comics creators over to the mess that DC has created) is some kind of frontier mentality where you think you might be able make your mark. I'm sure it's enticing to believe that you could be the Whedon (or even Kevin Feige) of a newly-developing superhero franchise. But it ain't happening.

sony stahp please

Can't wait for ASM 3 when Spidey teams up with Untitled Female Spiderverse to battle no less than 8 villains.

It's too bad they are going to actually name the Untitled Female Spiderverse movie because that title is just perfect

also, haven't there already been multiple Wolverine movies, how can they only be at Wolverine 2? Or are the movies out of order or something.

Is there going to be a X-Men/Fantastic 4 crossover movie?

Untitled Female Spiderverse, fighting for her clients / Wearing sexy miniskirts and tanking a movie studio

The fact that no one can think of an obvious character to fill the Untitled Female Spiderverse role speaks volumes about the likely failure of that particular venture.

Aunt May kinda sounds like Ant Man. Maybe that's the angle.

SPIDER-MAN: ORIGINS
MARY JANE WATSON

there's a lot of Spider-Woman/Girl stuff to mine. like I said, Araña!

Is there going to be a X-Men/Fantastic 4 crossover movie?

I endorse this if they use the miniseries as inspiration

seems inevitable, they're probably still hoping to get FF to a successful enough level

Aunt May kinda sounds like Ant Man. Maybe that's the angle.

Maybe they should do Golden Oldie!!

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/goldenoldie4.jpg

if FF2 does well then maybe there will be a crossover, but they'll wait until there's some evidence that adding the fantastic four will make the movie bigger than a regular x-men movie, which is expensive enough

I think since the first film was X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the next was The Wolverine, this next one is the sequel to the second.

It's actually better logic than First Blood followed by Rambo: First Blood Part II followed by Rambo III followed by Rambo

and by the time they get around to making it, it may get changed to Wolverine: Havana Nights or something

I doubt they're gonna call it The Wolverine 2 anyway, since both movies have been effectively retconned out (even if present-day/future Logan may remember them). I'm amazed Hugh Jackman hasn't completely burned out on these yet, seems like he was already sick of it by The Wolverine

xp right

Was thinking how The Wolverine takes place 10 years after X3, and by the time the next Wolverine movie comes out (or if they're still planning to do a StewMac joint) it will be about that long in real-time

his non-singing/non-SNIKTing film career is pretty modest and i bet it would be even more so if he said he was too good for the cash cow

Wolverine: Havana Nights

please

Aunt May kinda sounds like Ant Man. Maybe that's the angle.

Maybe they should do Golden Oldie!!

Aunt May v. Madame Web: Dawn of Naptime

only part of this confirmed was that affleck looked aged in some on-set photos, but man

http://badassdigest.com/2014/08/04/where-does-batman-begin-in-batman-v-superman/

My sources indicate that when BvS opens Batman has existed for close to thirty years, which would place Wayne in his 50s (which is why I expected more grey in Affleck's hair). In this version Batman is still an urban legend, a creature of the night, and no one has ever taken his picture. But he's had plenty of adventures, and the Batcave includes a memorial centered around a tattered Robin costume.

I've heard more, but I'm wary of crossing the line into spoilers. I do quite like this little tidbit, though, because it gives us a sense of a very different Batman than we've ever seen in the movies. This sets Affleck's version apart from Bale and the others easily - he's a quieter operator, not involved in blockbuster battles but in all sorts of badass vigilantism.

By the way, my sources tell me that Wonder Woman has also been in operation for some time before Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice* begins, and her activities have been just as secretive as Batman's. Her activities were badass as well... but in a very different, and unexpected, way.

combine the rumors and the gist is that superman's destruction of metropolis inspires an old batman, the queen of the amazons and the king of the sea to poke their heads out of their hidey-holes to say "superman, you're a dick"

and meanwhile jesse eisenberg will be bwahaha-ing about something

will be kind of amazing if the team that brought you man of steel follows it up with a meta-critique of man of steel

sounds badass

combine the rumors and the gist is that superman's destruction of metropolis inspires an old batman, the queen of the amazons and the king of the sea to poke their heads out of their hidey-holes to say "superman, you're a dick"

Honestly would be looking forward to this if it was directed by almost anyone except Zack Snyder.

Actually I am looking forward to it, I just know I won't enjoy it.

Honestly, Man of Steel was mediocre, not awful. Like, if it had been as bad as Superman Returns, then I'd really be dreading this, but I'm sure it'll be full of nonsense but still semi-entertaining.

like maaaaybe someone could make "the justice league was founded as an intervention for this alien tea partier who didn't really understand collateral damage, you may know him as superman" work, but probably not the people who made superman an alien tea partier who didn't understand collateral damage

it's also funny cuz the group that was founded by a bunch of heroes who thought another hero went berserk was...the avengers

(in case people forgot, the reason i'm saying "tea partier" is superman's "lol terrorists don't come from kansas" bit at the end of MoS)

Untitled Female Spiderverse sounds like it should be a song on Trout Mask Replica.

how is 5/1/2015 "Q1"?

fiduciary retconning

(in case people forgot, the reason i'm saying "tea partier" is superman's "lol terrorists don't come from kansas" bit at the end of MoS)

― da croupier, Thursday, August 7, 2014 4:36 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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