Warner bros announce superhero films through 2020

This is kind of exactly what people are talking about. There is no logical way to possibly interpret that statement as a 'criticism' of Geoff Johns. It's a simple statement of the kind of role someone thinks he fills, without even the slightest hint of a value judgement. But you apparently have a need to find criticism in literally everything anyone ever says about the DCEU.

 

This is ridiculous. And paranoid.

 

I get that too around these parts!

(By the way, this month's check from WB is a bit behind.)

 

Ah, but didn't Bruce Wayne say in BvS that if there is a 1% chance we have to take it as an absolute certainty?

 

The very next line is : "...and we have to destroy him!"

 

I think someone told David Sandberg that people "do a lot of coke" in Hollywood and he misunderstood.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BY7JEtWAVrZ/

 

I believe there's some short of hidden message in the pic but I can't quite decipher it... Perhaps he's directing a John Pemberton biopic?

 

I just hope he budgeted for detox, all that cola can't be good for you...

 

Sounds like alot of his/her posts.

 

Blah . . . blah . . . blah. Which I seemed to be reading.

Why? Why limited the franchise to those two directors?

 

Aquaman going in a different creative direction:

 

Aquaman has wrapped principal photography.

David F Sandberg confirmed the April 2019 release date for Shazam! which means we'll get two Captain Marvel movies within a month.

 

I don't think so. I think the role of paranoid is on the other foot.

I'm not really that surprised. Warner Bros. and DC Comics want the critics to regard their franchise in the same manner as they do the MCU. So, they're going to play by the same rule as Marvel/Disney. Personally, I think this is a mistake. I think Warner Bros./DC Comics should maintain their own house style. Snyder gave them something to roll with. I think they should stick to it. However, I see nothing wrong with the occasional mixture of drama and comedy.

 

And the one staring what is supposedly a version of my favorite superhero from either company, the only real Captain Marvel, is the DC movie I'm dreading the most. I can't even hope for a Wonder Woman situation where the movie is surprisingly great instead of shit, since "Shazam" is being made by a guy who has only made junky, cheap horror films (and one sequel to a terrible horror movie spin off). I can only hope it goes the way of Flash and just keeps getting put off, hopefully until it gets cancelled.

 

Sam Raimi was not known for helming big budget fantasy movies before Spider-Man (and yes, I'm including those low-rent TV series as not being evidence of ability to handle something high concept/big budget), but he ended up making two among the very short list of great superhero movies.

In other words, anything is possible.

 

Peter Jackson also did mostly low budget horror movies before he did Lord of the Rings.

 

Sorry to disappoint but Sandberg's currently out scouting for locations, and they've already booked shooting dates early next year in Canada, so pre-production is well underway.

On the plus side, you get to tell us how they're doing Everything! Wrong! for the next year or so, so there's that to look forward to...

 

Sam Raimi still made great movies before Spider-Man, even if they weren't high budget you could tell he could easily handle characters that like to quip and that he could do a lot with only a little. The guy on "Shazam" hasn't made anything that qualifies him to kiss Raimi's feet, much less make a superhero movie. He made small movies pretty much no one saw, and a sequel to a terrible spin off of a good horror movie. That doesn't qualify someone to direct an episode of Arrow, much less make a movie. But, this is the same company that hires hacks like Zach Snyder and David Ayer, so they obviously try to hire the worst people for the job and then accidentally hire actually talented people like Patty Jenkins every so often.

Yes, and they were shit. Dead Alive is one of the worst horror movies I've seen (and I've seen some bad ones). One could easily argue that the LoTR trilogy could have been made by almost anyone if they had the same resources and screenwriters (Jackson wasn't the only, or main, writer on any of the original trilogy). Based off the Hobbit, while I think that the LoTR trilogy is great it is literally the only goood work Jackson has done and I'm convinced any moderately capable director could have matched it since Jackson is a bad director generally and he pulled it off.

Oh yes, because no movie has ever been cancelled in pre production, or had radical changes. There is also no chance of a director getting fired in pre-production, either. Especially not in superhero films, there is just no example of that happening Until the movie actually starts shooting, it could easily be cancelled or have major changes to the crew behind the movie.

Also, yeah, my favorite superhero is getting metaphorically screwed with a rusty railroad spike. There has never been a superhero movie that pissed me off so much, so regardless of your rather dickish comment I will certainly be voicing a lot of displeasure about the continued destruction of Captain Marvel, something that started around the time of Countdown to Final crisis in the comics and has gpotten worse and worse by the year. At this point, I think DC is still bitter that Captain Marvel outsold Superman in WW2 so they're destroying him over and over as revenge.

To be clear, the shitty, cheap director is just a symptom of the problem. The real issue is that geoff Johns doesn't like Captain Marvel, in fact he wrote the absolute worst mainstream stories featuring a version of a character in Captain Marvel's 70+ year history. Now he's helping to run the movies, so the Earth's Mightiest Mortal is beyond fucked just because of that. Choosing a bad director is something to directly critisize right now, but its going to get worse unless the movie gets a mercy killing.

 

Nice to see you're keeping an open mind about it.

 

The fact that I'm not sure if you are serious or not is... concerning?