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'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

Bet Neeson'll still be making action movies in 2030, and he wld be PERFECT for a DKR/DKSA type Batman, bt this is prob as close as we'll get

yeah Neeson's a great call tbh. but he's... taken.

They'll have to wait until people forget Batman Begins. So, any time after the release of The Dark Knight should be fine.

Well I'd forgotten he ws in it, whoops

good stuff

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/superman-batman-dcs-real-battle-792190

On Wonder Woman, Warners hired five writers not to work together but to compete. Each was given a treatment and asked to write a first act. Based on those efforts, the studio winnowed the number to two: Jason Fuchs (Pan) and another writer whose name the studio declines to reveal. A source not involved in the films but with close ties to the studio says the process on Wonder Woman "felt like they were throwing shit against the wall to see what stuck."

marvel - building franchises within franchises is like a well played game of chess...

dc - THROW IT AT THE WALL. ALL OF IT.

― da croupier, Thursday, February 5, 2015 6:15 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8

Warners is developing its own "filmmaker-driven" strategy in contrast with Marvel, which generally is ruled by producer Kevin Feige and which has hired such untested directors as Joss Whedon (The Avengers), Joe and Anthony Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier and two planned Avengers movies) and James Gunn (Guardians).

this is the dumbest fucking thing...all those guys had a ton of experience in the industry, as was shane black, kenneth branagh, etc - while they hadn't made shit blow up on a marvel scale, they'd all proven themselves as storytellers - and marvel didn't need anyone to show them how to blow shit up on their scales, they had umpteen experienced techies to do that

"where all those acclaimed cult figures yearning to prove themselves on a blockbuster scale were forced to find inspiration within a coherent universe, we're going to let the directors of Sucker Punch and Sabotage run FREE"

chris rock points out that marvel would drop everything to put steve mcqueen on a movie and i think he's right and it's hardly a ludicrous example
they have wonderful toys

Oh the one hand, Edgar Wright quit their next film - on the other hand, they put him on it in the first place.

'criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot, so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible... neckless'

https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/aOz7ylEQBQ0ybMoGGBR-NHaSZe8=/600x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3656744/Screen_Shot_2015-04-30_at_10.51.33_AM.0.png

Omg no

Is that made out of newspaper

Bat-Science Fair Volcano

... is that real?

it's horrible enough to be real

It's been real for a while

it doesn't look so bad in the B&W publicity still but in that poster... ugh

Don't fret, there's more color in that poster than you're likely to see in the entire movie.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/300_portrait/2015/04/hero_complex_illo.jpg

baffleck will never not be funny

his mask has a molded furrowed brow

man how does he do the batusi in that thing

Two questions:

1) Is Aquaman drinking a glass of blood?
2) Was whoever is sitting next to Aquaman (Supes presumably because GL is like "GTFO fishboy") drinking a blood latte?

Followup:

Are the Justice League vampires?

I'm getting some Cathy vibes from WW in that drawing

ack!

Probably batman's
http://media.comicbook.com/uploads1/2014/10/batman-amp-dracula-red-rain-bloodstorm-2d53383fb3ca1e92bfbb0189f-111180.jpg http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/193/2/1/176__batman_red_rain_by_christopher_manuel-d3a3sx8.jpg

putting this here for reference
http://waynexiaolong.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/injusticejokerheart.jpg