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

anybody remotely interested in the X-Men GOTG crossover Black Vortex?

Who's writing it?

bendis & humphries

somehow bendis' schtick hasn't worn entirely thin yet. I'm as stoked for the new Powers as I've ever been.

also there is like a whole board for discussion of actual comix. itt we lol @ WB iirc

haha yeah i just realized after posting i wasn't actually in comix thread

oh hey look guys it's aquaman

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-RAWTjCcAAF81b.jpg

snyder doesn't receive enough credit for getting as far as he has despite being cripplingly colourblind

what the hell

Awesome. I can't wait for more grim & gritty, "Wonder Dog kills Marvin and paralyzes Wendy"-style fun from DC!

http://www.avclub.com/article/meet-zack-snyders-new-aquaman-lord-super-serious-s-215554

'His hair flows in massive dreadlocks, held together by saltwater and seriousness. He’s so tough he requires only one shoulder pad on his trident arm, plus a cool wristguard, like Judas Priest’s Rob Halford. '

"he's like the rob halford of judas priest!"

more like 300's Gerard Butler

i'm more cheesed by the

BIG

FUTURA

LETTERING

OVER

EVERYTHING

style. way past sell by date.

clearly tridents aren't exxxtreme-to-the-maxxx enough for zack so they've given aquaman an a five-pronged spear instead. the gillette fusion of the seas!

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/25/jesse-eisenberg-lex-luthor-batman-v-superman-dawn-justice

“He’s not any of the Lexes that you’ve seen, that’s for sure,” says Snyder, “other than him being a captain of industry and one person to the world and another person to himself. And bald, of course.”

http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/styles/tout_image_612x380/public/i/2015/03/25/lex-luthor_612x380.jpg?itok=tsEwR1Y8

he's not any of the lexes you've seen apart from these several elements you'll definitely be familar with

he has an upper midwest american english accent

i really wish snyder had said

he's not like any of the lexes you've seen because after he got terminal cancer from wearing a radioactive kryptonite ring his brain was transplanted into a clone of his own body and he masquerades as his son with an australian accent. and long hair and abe lincoln beard, of course.

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/0/9541/1478430-217px_doomsday_004.jpg

might as well throw in Matrix Supergirl

i'm all for it

Didn't see the last superman, not gonna see this one.

We can only pray it's dour & gray enough to fully communicate how serious and adult it is so you can't laugh at the screenwriters for enjoying comics

I'd think the reception that Guardians got put paid to that notion at least to some degree

Not at DC/WB. All those darker & "more realistic" Batman movies made money, right? So lets have every DC character be shot in as dark & desaturated style as possible. We'll even drain the color out of every promo still we put out!

Michelle MacLaren has dropped out of directing Wonder Woman due to what the parties involved are calling creative differences.

Gee, that's why Whedon dropped out of doing a Wonder Woman movie nearly a decade ago. It's entirely possible that DC doesn't know what the hell they're doing with the character.

but they've handled her so well up till now
oh wait
no they haven't

well this is the dumbest shit conceivable
http://io9.com/everybody-hates-superman-in-the-first-batman-v-superman-1698392005

Feels like this will suck for the exact same reasons Man of Steel did.

I'm confident they will add a panoply of Batman-related reasons this will suck.

this looks to be a staggering misstep on every level. have they really managed to leech out even more colour from superman's costume?

i also wonder if snyder and his team of idiots would be taking this 'everyone hates superman' tack if they hadn't been so heavily criticised for the destruction of metropolis and its citizens in man of steel. the jaunty interaction between superman and the army guys at the end of that movie seemed to suggest they believed that they'd already set superman on the track to becoming the world's favourite superhero.

i'm sure this will do great - despite it being a new batman and superman only mildly more popular than the brandon routh one, it's batman vs superman and that trailer bangs the drums loud enough that anyone who semi-cares will be curious. the question is whether you can skip the world-building marvel did and just go straight to avengers - assuming everyone will quickly catch up to your world inside one movie - and then blast out a bunch of spin-offs. cap 2 and thor 2 made oodles more money than cap 1 and thor 1 leapfrogging off the avengers. dc is going to try making flash 1 and aquaman 1 AFTER their avengers.

on one hand, they could be using up all their residual sturm un drang right out of the gate, and find themselves dry by the time they bring out the gritty superfriends. on the other, the world may well respond to ALL THESE GUYS YOU HAVEN'T MET ARE A BIG DEAL, TRUST US with OK SURE *GIVES MONEY*. but where marvel could easily handle a misfire (if they ever have one), dc's whole gameplan collapses if one of these movies underwhelms.

feels like everything depends on the world seeing this movie and saying "that...was...crazy...AND I LOVED IT!" in response to being thrown right in the middle of the DC universe with a new batman, rather than "that...was...crazy...and I really didn't care about that dude with the trident that growled at the end."

I can't wait for the moment of perplexity when people who haven't been paying that much attention realize that the Flash movie isn't going to be a big-screen adaptation of the television show they enjoy.

miller/lord are working on that one, right? i like those guys but i'd be a lot more interested if there wasn't already a pretty successful version of the character showing up on tv every week already. like, will they have to wilfully make it different to the show in order to make it stand apart?

Iirc lord miller are only committed to scripting with an option to direct, which is smart: get paid then wait and see if you want to bail the dcu once warner bros freaks out when the world rejects Ben-man and Jared-joker

shrewd

I hope that the title comes true and 90% of this movie is a court case.

it's weird to me that he's wearing the suit from dark knight returns, why not just do a straight adaptation?

obviously the movie looks like dogshit visually and Zack Snyder sucks but the batcave looked dope

the amusing aspect of this to me is that it's a GRIM and GRITTY superhero movie that will feature AQUAMAN at some point.

aquaman's been "grim n gritty" for 2+ decades now fyi

not that that makes this movie any less inherently stupid

the ocean is a very scary place imo

oh man the battles between defensive comic book readers and "lol the guy who rides a seahorse" superfriends recollectors we have comin

Aquaman is a very serious character, just ask this guy: http://fanboyfactor.com/2013/06/four-color-comments-geoff-johns-did-not-make-aquaman-cool-again/

Eh that Aquaman joke's rly tired and not that funny in the first place (he can do lots of stuff, blah blah) and one of the best things abt comics is how many genuinely insanely dumb characters there are

aw cmon this is hilariously Serious Business obv but one thing i won't ever fault snyder for is production design. A+ Extra Dark Knightage imo tho hmm affleck hmm. the killer play would've been to bring clooney back.

it should obviously have been Liam Neeson and they are braindead if they didn't make the offer

oh wait I forgot that they need to have an actor who will commit for the next 15 years or whatever