DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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Sometimes it's because a prolonged strike means they won't have enough new material for the following year, so they spread out their completed films' releases so there won't be too long a period when they have nothing coming out.
Of course, it would be far simpler just to come back to the table and make a reasonable deal with the writers and actors. The studio execs are just punching themselves in the face to spite their employees at this point.
At this point, the "Ayer Cut" would not hurt WB's fortunes, and might be seen as positive marketing to DC movie fans at a time when the fans are not at all enthusiastic about the demise of the DCEU.
Same here, and if you recall, Safran said the following (also posted in The Flash thread) about Shazam, The Flash, Blue Beetle and Aquaman:
"Safran: “These four movies are terrific. There’s no reason why any of the characters and the actors playing those characters are not part of the DCU. There’s nothing that prohibits that from happening.”
Anything is possible, but we know the performance of A2 will be the central consideration where Momoa's Aquaman is concerned.
If WB is smart they'll never release another "____ Cut" ever again. All the Snyder Cut did was lose them money and make the idiot Snyder cultists even louder and more obnoxious, it was an absolute disaster for WB in every way. I can't imagine that releasing a worse cut of the 2016 Suicide Squad movie (and it would definitely be a worse cut) would do anything positive for them, especially since James Gunn's The Suicide Squad and its various spin offs are THE Suicide Squad that the new DC stuff is going with.
That's not even mentioning the fact that any potential "Ayer Cut" would probably just add more screen time to characters that are definitely not going to be in the new movies going forward, like Leto's "Joker", and the last thing anyone on Earth needs is more Jared Leto in anything, much less his "Joker".
That's not even mentioning the fact that any potential "Ayer Cut" would probably just add more screen time to characters that are definitely not going to be in the new movies going forward, like Leto's "Joker", and the last thing anyone on Earth needs is more Jared Leto in anything, much less his "Joker".
Moving away from live-action movies temporarily, DC has announced animated versions of Watchmen and Crisis on Infinite Earths https://www.superherohype.com/movie...XX-i-8ulw4N4m_Qc3awnPndhol9YBiR1qZ6p5JpBWjZL4
Yeah, obviously they should keep doing what they're best at: putting out movies that started off with potential but ended up irreparably mangled by studio dipshit interference.
Isn't that the same thing the internet brain trust said about the Snyder Cut?
Yessssss
If its faithful to the original maxi-series' story (and the animation tries to honor Perez' brilliant work), it has the potential to be the greatest DC animated production.
Thankfully, WB responded to actual fans and supported the ZSJL (correcting the studio's own interference by dumping Whedon into the production), which was fulfillment for the DC world Snyder started. That, and its easy to dismiss the kind of out-of-the-butt, unsubstantiated screaming that it was some sort of "disaster".
For simplicity's sake, WB needs to stop talking about what they're going to do and just make some good movies.
Simple isn't always easy, but hey.
Simple isn't always easy, but hey.
Marvel and X-Men did that too!
Still annoyed with the wrong music cue in Black Adam.
Actually, we kinda did.
OK, that makes more sense.
Yeah, I saw a story about that a couple days ago. One round of reshoots isn't an issue, but three is starting to get a bit concerning.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Should we really be revisiting comics I bought back in college? Especially when Crisis (as written) will make no damn sense to younger viewers?
Crisis is not a particularly confusing story. You don't need to know most of the characters to follow it, you might just be more invested if you care about, say, the Earth 2 Golden Age characters. at its core its a story of DC heroes trying to save the multiverse, and most of the story either involves characters most people know (like superman, Supergirl, Flash, etc) or characters introduced for the story and who get explained in the story (The Monitor, Harbinger, Anti-Monitor, Pariah, Alexander Luthor, etc). Its later events that make COIE more convoluted then the original story was, but as long as they don't add stuff from Scott Snyder's BS there is no reason that an animated adaptation of COIE should be particularly hard to follow, especially in a period of time where 99% of the people who will be watching the movie understand the multiverse as a basic concept.
Now, that said, I think the people making the current DC animated films are incompetent at best, with most direct to dvd/streaming animated films being mediocre to bad in the last few years. The current "animated movie universe" is particularly dreadful (although still better then the animated New 52 universe, admittedly), so they could easily botch this adaptation, especially if its set in their "animated universe". But, in general an animated COIE adaptation has a huge potential and could easily be amazing, so hopefully its not just another poorly written,vaguely unpleasant looking "Animated Universe" film but instead gets its own unique treatment like The Dark Knight Returns, All Star Superman, etc did back in the day.
As for the rest of the news, I think that the Watchmen comic sucks, so I have no interest in an animated version. Zack Snyder actually made Watchmen's story borderline tolerable for me (which is literally the only compliment I'm able to give to Zack Snyder about anything), and I doubt that the animated movie will be better. It will probably be more comic accurate, but in the case of Watchmen, in my opinion at least, thats not a good thing.
I think they're looking at how long the Strikes may last and want to stretch existing available content at a time NOTHING is currently being produced - and when the Strikes end, it'll take a while to ramp production back up.
To be fair, in this century, we have witnessed comic book adaptations based on books or stories several generations old. There's no getting around it: many of the most substantial / key superhero comics are quite old.
I'm not sure about that; when COIE was published, many readers who had no familiarity with many old DC plots or characters predating the 80s were just as drawn to the maxi-series. Its the weight and creative strength of the comic that pulled readers in at that time, and continues to do so, with some readers discovering it through the endless reprints over the years.
One thing might be a guarantee: the COIE cartoon will not be the discount version from the CW/DC shows.
I re-read Crisis last summer. Remove nostalgia and it did not age well at all, I promptly sold it since I'll never slog through it again. It would definitely need to be streamlined for an animated film.
Though Perez' art is on another level. Except for the Anti-Monitor, such an ugly overdesigned look, don't know what he was thinking for that one.