Maybe one day, people will realize that Warner Bros was the true villain in the DCEU’s failure all along.
Quite unlikely, as many have a dangerus obsession with blaming / hating Snyder for "raping their childhood", or some such nonsensical blather.
Wonder Woman 1 was a success and positively received. Snyder worked on the story and executive produced it.
Ahhh, but notice how the usual suspects constantly attempt to separate Snyder from
Wonder Woman's success, when all production details point to the film never going forward to the point enjoyed by millions without him. Nope it was all the director...until...
WW84 was all Patty Jenkins. From the story, directing and reception. Wonder Woman 3 was cancelled after WW84 flopped.
Indeed. Jenkins was on record repeatedly selling WW84 as being all under her control (IOW,
unlike the first film with Snyder's direct input, guidance, etc.), and it was a disaster.
Suicide Squad 1 was a success financially. It even won WB an Academy Award for best Make-Up and Hairstyling. Thanks to Killer Croc, Harley and Joker. Snyder worked on that film as well. As it was more closely tied to his version of JL, before the execs at WB had it cut and edited to resemble Deadpool 1. Which also released that year.
Quite true.
James Gunn’s sequel was a box office bomb. A bomb so bad that even though Gunn is the head of DCU studios now. Gunn has said there are no plans to do another Suicide Squad film. Best we’ll get is Creature Commandos and Peacemaker season 2.
Once again, that was another example of the idiotic attempt to MCU-ise the DCEU (previously with the theatrical cut of JL) resulted in box-office catastrophe. The lesson here is that moving away from the Snyder influence over the DCEU was assbrained and creatively bankrupt.
Aquaman 1 was a high success. The only billion dollar gross in the DCEU, and the last movie Snyder had anything to do with before he was fired. What did WB decide to do to capitalize on this film’s success? Wait 5 years to release a sequel and tell the whole world the film didn’t matter to the rebooted universe going forward; before it hit theaters. Aquaman 2 was a financial disappointment but there are worse performing films out there.
Like the predictability of the sun rising, WB constantly made moronic decisions all on their own, when the Snyder-helmed DCEU was the exact creative direction the franchise needed to maintain.
Such as Shazam 1 and Shazam 2. Shazam 1 never had any thunder. Released between Captain Marvel and Avengers Endgame. The first movie was a modest hit. The second movie was a disaster. Losing money big time compared to the first film (a recurring pattern of DCEU films) and losing to Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Ah, but if you recall, the Hate-Snyder obsessives squealed in joy over
Shazam being the a silly, MCU-styled movie--the direction they wanted for
all DCEU movies. The moviegoing audience did not agree.
Let’s talk about The Flash. A film James Gunn called one of the best comic book movies ever made. This was before he was officially the head the DCU. Gotta tow the company line. Outside of being stuck in development hell for years. Ezra Miller’s antics and criminal activity, put promoting this film in a real tough spot.The film was yet another box office bomb for the DCEU. As well as, being another character Gunn has said there are no plans to do a new movie for in the DCU.
A Snyder-free disaster heavily manipulated (much like
Aquaman 2 to effectively kill all that had been built by the earlier, successful DCEU films, once again proving that the DCEU was a sinking ship without the right captain.
Hamada’s other ideas for CBM included:
A Wonder Twins movie. Pre-production was cancelled early because they thought it was too niche. Ya think?
Honestly, who on the face of the earth asked for a movie based off of a beaten-into-the-ground Hanna-Barbera gimmick from the
Super Friends cartoon? No one.
JJ Abrams’ Black Superman movie with Ta Nehisi Coates. Announced back in 2019. This film still has not officially been cancelled but we all know it’s not happening.
It would seem so.
Lastly, we can talk about Justice League. Theatrical and Director’s cut. WB lied and denied that there was different version of the film we got in theaters for years. When the world did see Zack Snyder’s Justice League, it was met with critic approval and fan approval.
Forever punctuating not only his story arc for the DCEU, but ZSJL's success could not have been a better way to illustrate how everything outside of Snyder's direct guidance was a crushing failure.
ZSJL also came out at a unique time for cbms. In 2021, there were 3 Justice League type properties released. Mark Millar’s
Jupiter’s
Leagcy on Netflix, the Eternals by the MCU and ZSJL by HBOMax. Eternals and Jupiter’s Leagcy were both rotten with critics. Eternals was also a box office bomb for Marvel. Only WB had access to the genuine article. Only WB had the Real McCoy. And they did nothing to capitalize on that moment. Not saying that Zack Snyder needed to comeback, but there was life in the direction WB had abandoned to pursue their scattershot approach. People wanted Avengers level ensembles. People wanted to see the A-Listers they were familiar with. Instead we got the series of niche movies nobody asked for.
Next to Sony and their Spider-Man-Less Spider-Man movies. No other studio has dropped the ball as hard as WB has. Zack Snyder has been gone from WB since March 2017. Nearly 8 years now. I don’t think you can blame him for anything that happened after he left. It was all WB and they made the wrong call at every turn.
Insightful, but it still does not stop disinformation-dealing, history-challenged Snyder-haters such as Michael French (host of the YouTube channel Retroblasting) from going on
rants/whine-a-thons. Very history challenged.
