If by "taking risks" you mean "made bad decisions", then I'll agree with you. I don't believe for a single moment that WB's intent was to "take risks" with these properties. They were hoping for a slam dunk.
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If by "taking risks" you mean "made bad decisions", then I'll agree with you. I don't believe for a single moment that WB's intent was to "take risks" with these properties. They were hoping for a slam dunk.
I think you are probably right. After Superman Returns, the internet was crying out for a villain Superman can fight in a hand to hand slugfest. Zack Snyder offered them exactly that, and his movie made significantly more money than Superman Returns. When BvS was pitched, they had no real reason not to give it to Snyder. Being bald didn't have much, if anything, to do with their decision-making.
You don't create an endless litany of "not my Superman, not my Batman, not my Luke Skywalker" whines by playing it safe.
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Sounds like it could be fun.
I think you must not paying very close attention, because I've always thought the Marvel movies had a lot of substance to them. I've been really happy with how well developed their characters are.
Waiting for kirk to come tell us how terrible this is.
Sorry not everyone has opinions you agree with. If it offends you so much, maybe you shouldn't post on a forum.
But, yeah, the synopsis is exactly what I thought it would be. Calling him "streetwise" is probably code for "teen asshole". But, the biggest issue is calling him a "foster". Billy Batson was only a foster kid in Geoff Johns shit run. Well, technically he may have been fostered by his sisters adopted family after they found each other (I think Jerry Ordway's classic Power of Shazam did that, eventually) but the real Billy Batson gets kicked out of his home (usually by an evil uncle) and lives on the street while hiding his situation from, say, school. He doesn't get put into a foster home, outside of that piece of shit version Geoff Johns wrote.
so, yeah, the garbage version of Shazam is confirmed. It was already guaranteed because Geoff Johns is helping run the DCEU and he never wrote anything related to Captain Marvel even remotely well, but this is basically official confirmation.
Also, he "has fun" with the powers? Yeah, we're getting that shit Johns wrote. He'll be shaking down the people he saves for money, and probably do some fucked up pervert shit like try to be a peeping tom. I swear, WB is going to have to lose the GDP of a small country before they learn to hire capable people to make these damn movies and not just hire idiots to throw literal crap at the screen thinking it will make a good movie.
No, no keep being you! The entertainment value is the only reason I come on here sometimes.
Well there is clearly no urgency, since they haven't lost any money at all yet. They are surely leaving money on the table, but none of their movies have been money losers yet.
Here we go again: Joaquin Phoenix is in talks to play the Joker in the Todd Philips origin movie. Seeing as he was attached to the roles of both Lex Luthor in BvS and Doctor Strange but didn’t commit, this could end in another dropping out but if it’s standalone rather than a franchise, he might be persuadable.
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/joaquin-phoenix-the-joker-origin-movie-todd-phillips-1202692188/
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/joaquin-phoenix-the-joker-origin-movie-todd-phillips-1202692188/
Marvel's been having similar issues, but they rule their universe with more of an iron fist. Any actor or director who doesn't play ball gets kicked out.
Norton and Rourke were Divas who couldn't play ball (and Rouke wanted the movie to be about him and not Iron Man), and Edgar Wright got kicked out for wasting time nothing staying on schedule. Terence Howard was greedy.
Everyone else was able to work together.
It was everyone's but Marvel's fault.
Not their fault the Divas and Prima Donnas couldn't get over themselves.
That's what I said. It's not Marvel's fault that some people didn't like working for Marvel.
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CBR| Michael Bay Eyed to Direct Warner Bros.' Lobo Movie
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CBR| Michael Bay Eyed to Direct Warner Bros.' Lobo Movie
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This does not inspire confidence in the future of the DCEU IMHO.
As for Marvel Studios and issues with creators, this is something that happens with every studio. There have been 20 MCU movies and I would say that Marvel's track record with creators is very good. They may have replaced a director and an actor or two, and butted heads with a few others, but they've never had to replace a director mid-production like Lucasfilm and WB have. James Gunn certainly has nothing but praise for the Marvel collaborative process.
Well, at least now people won't be able to say Marvel's movies are dumber than DC's.
Except for Zack Snyder on JL, WB didn't have to, either. And while I wouldn't say there were no issues with Snyder, him dropping out had nothing to do with any problems he might have had with WB.
Indeed. Forgive me for mis-speaking. However, the studio interference and changes demanded to JL that proceeded Snyder's departure go far beyond anything that has happened with any Marvel Studios production.