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 am SHOCKED. This is SHOCKING.

The 'Flash' Movie Loses Its Director

At least we can rest comfortably at night, safe in the knowledge that there won't be any more hiccups on the road to DC's glorious cinematic future.

Grahame-Smith, the author and screenwriter of such works as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, was to have made his directorial debut on the project

that's a helluva résumé - what a disaster for the dc universe

When your artistic vision fails to meet the standards of the man who directed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter...

imo All Star Batman & Robin is good because it jettisons the premise that they're doing anything other than ridiculous grim and gritty trash and really goes for it

i'd enjoy it more if i could shake the lingering suspicion that frank miller is taking it all deadly seriously

By the time they got to the issue where Batman paints and entire house and his costume in gold to piss off Green Lantern, I was disabused of that notion

it is ok to laugh at Frank Miller and not with him, I give you permission

also, lol, I forgot that green lantern bit

OMG you guys: 'According to multiple, reliable sources James Wan is feeling a tremendous amount of trepidation about Aquaman.'

i know how he feels tbh

also don't want to just skip over that 'pissing off green lantern' stuff nhex posted - is that for real??? omg

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l288/Chiasmata85/scansdaily/scan06.jpg

i forgot about robin offering him lemonade!

holy shit my world has tilted on its axis

imo a movie adapting all star b&r would be completely amazing and... batshit crazy

https://comicnewbies.com/2014/09/09/batman-paints-a-room-yellow-for-green-lantern/

I forgot the long dialogue exposition parts

This guy really GRINDS MY GEARS

He's got the IMAGINATION of a goddamn POTATO

"Fast hands, my little ROBIN.

Fast hands, big mouth..."

holy shit frank miller

don't forget that continuity-wise this is the same Dick Grayson that decades in the future will go insane and betray him in the DKR series

They need to make BATMAN ODYSSEY into a film.

I was going to mention that in my earlier post but forgot! Yes, they do.

was looking through my records and found this from when i was a kid. they even have the same visual line-up as in BvS. oh but simpler, more friendly times:

https://dailypop.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/supermanwonderwomanbatmanchristmaslpfront.jpg

Weird, I think this movie was also originally titled Exciting Christmas Stories.

Now I'm seeing reports of WB getting more hands-on with Justice League and Snyder rankling at the interference with his artistic visionz.

C'mon, guys, don't tease. This impending implosion is such a gift.

studio interference will totally save this franchise

if there's anyone who's really demonstrated a clear understanding of the value and strengths of their properties, it's the studio

https://twitter.com/mjsamps/status/726832607955021824

Zack Snyder is the guy who they decided would be great for their superhero franchise

batman could get raped in prison. that could happen in my movie.

savin these million dollar ideas for the sequel, I assume

http://www.ew.com/article/2008/07/17/watchmen-chat-director-zack-snyder

My mother saw I was into this comic called Heavy Metal magazine, so she got me a subscription. You could call it ”high-brow” comics, but to me, that comic book was just pretty sexy! I had a buddy who tried getting me into ”normal” comic books, but I was all like, ”No one is having sex or killing each other. This isn’t really doing it for me.” I was a little broken, that way. So when Watchmen came along, I was, ”This is more my scene.”

is there any comic or plot concept he can't misunderstand? time will tell!

kinda hope he's trolling a little bc it's so on the nose but that does sound a lot like a super villain revealing his secret origin

just think if he'd gotten to do Tintin before Spielberg

Worth repeating: dude's been buddies with Michael Bay since college. Just sayin'.

it seems like he can channel rob liefeld on occasion

kind of want to ask zack snyder what makes something subversive, and whether his films are subversive

also he should explain the idea of a "high concept" film and how it differs from other films

I am 99% sure his idea of "subversive" is sex, violence, and amorality which is ... what a twelve year old thinks is subversive

a couple hours of superheros being badasses but he thinks he's doing political commentary at times, because he doesn't know realpolitik is something that exists

tbf his takes on batman and superman are subversive, in that they're attempts to overturn the conventional foundations of both characters

the problem is that subversion for its own sake is not often a good idea, especially not in the hands of someone who genuinely appears to be a moron

I don't think he's done anything to the characters that hasn't been done in comics at some point

his interest isn't "Watchmen is interesting because it examines the assumptions about these superhero characters that we like" it's "I like this because it's all grim and dark and shows how fucked up superheros would be"

I don't think he's done anyone has done anything to the any of these DC/Marvel characters that hasn't been done in comics at some point

Also, to hell with Aquaman, but I'd be OK with Marvel making a Namor movie.

Someone should drop a big pile of unproduced Garth Ennis projects on Snyder's desk and keep him occupied for the next couple of decades.

i'm stunned snyder hasn't worked with mark millar yet

I think it's only a difference of studios that keeps those potential soulmates apart. I think Millar has a deal with Fox at present.

I dunno; instead of the two being sympatico, who's to say they wouldn't kill each other after each feeding back into the other after several days stuck in a writing room together?

that's best-case scenario, right?

Again, it's like Snyder's knowledge of what comics should be begins and ends at Image 1991.

I wish. These characters could do with more pouches.

Years ago I interviewed Snyder, right after he made "Dawn of the Dead." I remember asking him if he was going to release an unrated director's cut of the movie, and he sort of paused to consider. "Well, I don't know, I think ..." And then this disembodied voice of a studio publicist came on the line and said, yes, he will be doing an unrated director's cut. I think that says it all.

Even with Spawn I don't think Image was ever even trying to be particularly dark and edgy the way DC has in recent years. It was a different type of extreme they were going for.