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

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

UGH this shit

In better WB/DC news, I just found out that the new Batman animated flick they released is a full-on Suicide Squad story.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2014/07/maxresdefault1.jpg

It's the New52 version, and not Ostrander's, but whatever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8VV2i-vqsE

Nu52 ruins everything

http://www.avclub.com/article/warner-bros-reportedly-doesnt-want-any-funny-stuff-208597

Makes sense, Guardians of the Galaxy was a widely panned flop.

crossing my fingers for that deadly serious SHAZAM movie with Dwayne Johnson!

*daniel day-lewis

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bwnl_foCYAA-m8S.jpg

Dwayne Johnson @TheRock
"Kneel at his feet or get crushed by his boot." My honor to become.. #BlackAdam #TheAntiHero #DCComics

but will shazam be played by an actual name or some anono-hunk, that is the question

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/jim-nabors-c.jpg

Hollywood has many big cheeses, but how many of them are red enough?

bautista plz

man grim'n'gritty nolan shazam is gonna be maximum WB/DC faceplant lols

aw shazam may not be part of the justice leagueaverse (though if he does super well i can't imagine they'd hesitate to fly him in)

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/09/03/shazam-movie-rock-fun/

but who will play Tawny?

It IS weird that they cast The Rock before getting someone to actually play Shazam...
Though if this actually ends up being a Black Adam movie I won't complain

the fact that the exec in that article says he thinks the supervillain makes the movie suggests that they're probably getting a real Brandon Routh type for the headliner spot - you wouldn't say that if someone remotely near The Rock's Q score was taking it

so we're just dealing with a whimsical movie about a little boy and his magical superfriend named shazam, that happens to have a high profile actor as an "anti-hero" in it as well.

sounds like a winner!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfdemcL35A

http://textsfromsuperheroes.com/post/96577836346/blackadam

Hope they include Psycho Pirate so The Rock can do this:

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/6/69951/1323895-crisis6p2.gif

wait does the rock get to have vulcan ears in this? crossing my fingers.

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next page - the festering corpse of cc beck spins in grave

"SHUNKKCH" effect courtesy of Don Martin

a unique and v. charming film could be made out of the idiosyncratic world - talking tigers, super-intelligent worms - of the original Marvel Family comics

agree. but that will not happen.

no doubt - the success of GOTG and the failure of the second Sin City movie seem to be the death knell for grim and gritty shazam movies, but who knows

I've been seeing a billboard for that sin city movie on my commute for the last month- I looked up today and wondered if it already came out- it did apparently. I did not read a single printed word about it.

it was totally dumped by the studio imo; very weak rollout and publicity compared to the original, end of August release

yeah when the weinsteins aren't the ones who'll take the biggest hit on a movie they're distributing (some CGI company supposedly had a big stake in this) they're not going to cought up for a big promotion unless they smell oscar - it's why this, snowpiercer, that James Gray movie all got plopped out

I saw Snowpiercer pop up on iTunes just as I was reading about it as a "summer movie to watch for"... still haven't seen it yet.

tbf no one would've wanted to see a highly-publicized sin city sequel anyway

http://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/upcoming-dc-films1.jpg?w=605

wtf are "fantastic beasts" and "cyborg"

Fantastic Beasts is the JK Rowling Harry Potter spinoff I think?
Cyborg is one of the Teen Titans so I assume they're planning for that

Why are there 3 Fantastic Beasts movies? Because Peter Jackson.

So - new Suicide Squad, Flash/Green Lantern split into two movies, no mention of Sandman - and now Aquaman & Cyborg. Man, I thought that was lot of weight to put on Cavil vs Affleck before...

(and three Lego movies not from the Lego Movie I / Cloudy makers)

why on earth would they announce dwayne johnson is in shazam and then push back shazam 3 years, behind a movie about a CW character

source this immediately HOOS

well holy moly

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/warner-bros-details-strategic-content-160500496.html

considering the flash is doing decent numbers considering it's on the CW its seems fucking mental to announce a different actor (esp when it's a non-star like ezra miller) will be playing him in the movie, presumably also appearing in justice league

it's just funny cuz i watched the flash pilot last night and was surprisingly impressed, thinking maybe if it stays popular they could just put the actors from that and arrow in the justice league movie and then maybe eventually launch them in spin-off films

that is really weird

granted, there's no proof people will still care about the flash tv show by 2017, but this looks like a weird vote of no confidence to make three years earlier

That decision, although small, feels indicative of the thinking that's going to make this a massive disaster. If that slate has panned out by the time we get to 2020, I will happily eat my words.

marvel had four individual film franchises going into the avengers. dc could now have two film and two tv franchises going in, but...I guess they'd rather not?

iirc there's a goyer quote up thread about how little planning and synergy is going into these things and this would seem to bear that out. just so ironic considering the umpteen dc tv shows coming out this year

flash pilot had a really strong marvel influence in terms of highlighting what makes the character affecting (like most, has a grudge from childhood, but is an enthusiastic well-meaning nerd whose gift is not a burden but a thrill) and his power unique from the pack, without any of that "dark knight was a hit, make it like dark knight" bullshit dc/wb has been consumed in. maybe snyder and goyer think it's lame