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

Why he's taking to the role like a charm!

http://blindscribblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Affleck-Superman.jpg

Wait hold on.

nothing says "gravitas" more than ben affleck

Can't wait for the contrarian Slatepitch articles in favor of this

I woulda thought getting Clooney back to play an ageing Bruce Wayne would have been a good idea...

baffleck

good casting imo

So I guess this won't be in the same continuity as the latest Batman movies, and Affleck is gonna play Bruce Wayne? Because if it is the same continuity, how would explain how newbie John Blake suddenly becoming 10 years older and a "seasoned crime fighter"? Or maybe they'll try to come up with a reason why Bruce Wayne has to come out of retirement?

I wouldn't worry about it

I mean, at least its not Christian Bale.

http://i.imgur.com/DaTTbc2.gif

so DC's response to the avengers movies is to go all justice league, is that it? yeesh.

exactly how long has the wonder woman movie been in the works, by the way

IDRIS ELBA FOR WONDER WOMAN

Wasn't there some failed attempt to launch a new WW series a couple of years ago?

If they ever actually produce a Wonder Woman movie, I really hope they'll cast a someone who actually is tall and has muscles and looks like an Amazon princess, instead of taking the Scarlet Johansson route.

totally knew this would be on deviantart

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/085/1/1/wonder_woman_gina_carano_superman_by_christinalongmeadow-d5zdm2j.png

ya I was gonna say, if they can't get Idris Elba they need to go for Gina Carano

Wasn't there some failed attempt to launch a new WW series a couple of years ago?

There was a movie project with Joss Whedon attached to write and direct, which he eventually walked away from because apparently he and WB just had fundamentally different conceptions of the character. That kinda tanked the whole deal.

There was also this atrocious attempt to launch a new series on NBC two years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwUs3g2GHIs

realistically tho, j lawrence is the only bankable wonder woman, right

let's see what happens when Chloe Moretz grows up

Gina Carano would be perfect, imo.

(as DJP says)

After seeing Haywire, I can't imagine anyone else playing the role aside from Idris Elba

The deal is that the Amazons send WW out into the world to be their designated asskicker, right? Gotta be Gina Carano.

Obviously part of the problem of bringing WW to tv or film is the fact that part of the character's raison d'être is beating chauvinist pigs down to their knees for disrespecting womankind. Male-dominated studios just can't get to the point of writing checks for that yet.

Ah Gina Carano, my dream woman.

Affleck is terrible for this. It's a move he could/should have made a decade ago instead of several of the shitty choices he did make. I wonder if Clooney pushed him in this direction, given how vocal Clooney has been about the financial independence Batman afforded? In any case, Affleck lacks brood power, his fame/celebrity is too distracting, and he's already five years older than Clooney was when he played Batman.

Better Affleck casting would be as Thomas Wayne in the flashback when we find out, finally, Batman's origins. It's about time this was revealed!

Affleck just won an Oscar, what more financial independence does the dude need

he needs to be able to buy Cambridge

i still wish clooney had gone back to the cowl

I don't know who Gina Carano is, but based on that pic she could indeed be a good Wonder Woman.

Physically, I mean.

She starred in the movie Haywire and apparently played Riley Hicks in Fast and Furious 6

I'm pretty sure her face is photoshopped into that WW picture. She's a former(?) mixed martial arts fighter who was the lead in a Soderbergh film about a freelance asskicker and did surprisingly well with the non-asskicking parts. xp

After talking about this with a big Superman fanboy in my office, all I can think now is "HEY JOKAH, YOU LIKE APPLES? WELL HOW DO YOU LIKE DEM APPLES!"

lol: https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/370935138667859970

haha HIGH FIVE

nicely put.

gina carano would be an awesome wonder woman omg CAN THIS HAPPEN PLZ

Affleck just won an Oscar, what more financial independence does the dude need

Oscars don't pay the bills. Hell, I'm surprised Snyder isn't funding this movie through Kickstarter.

Man of Shit made $400 million why would a studio NOT bankroll the shitty sequel?

Man of Shit!

no wait it made way more than that

anyway

xp

Gross: $289,633,849 (USA) (16 August 2013)

how much did it make non-USA?

Gross: $24 (Krypton) (16 August 2013)

lol

Man Of Steel was definitely a hit, and this likely will be too. But I still think Marvel is going to send them a thank-you bouquet because unless this is CRAZY good, good enough to make people want to meet the flash, it won't actually fix DCs problem, where they have the #1 & #2 cinematic superheroes of all time, while marvel has like 3-20 right now.

there's "hey they went, we made a couple hundred mill yaaaay" good and there's "america's now hungry to see ben solo, ps where's martian manhunter" good

Accidentally genre crossover, I read da croup's post and thought, "Ben is LUKE's son, the Solo kids were Anakin, Jacen and Jaina."

Please kill me.

lol

also if the movie where the top two superheroes meet doesn't get anywhere near the movie where #5, 8, 10 and 14 met (currently the biggest superhero movie ever) then ouuuch

this totally isn't going to fix DC's problem because ZACK SNYDER IS FUCKING HORRIBLE

watching shazam at the moment (it’s... adequate!) and i can’t stop thinking about how much the kid who plays billy batson looks like arya from game of thrones

I thought that as well! I even looked to see if they were related.