DC Entertainment Announcents Just Weeks Away

[JacksonArcher]

ComingSoon.Net reports that DC Entertainment, the new subsidiary of Warner Bros. and DC Comics, will announce its plans for its feature film line-up in a couple of weeks. Time Warner Inc. Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes revealed the following during the company's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday.

"We are going to have a fairly interesting set of announcements and presentations pretty soon like in a matter of weeks, I think, about our plans for DC," Bewkes said. "And basically if you look across the title of the whole band of hits whether its Batman, The Dark Knight, Green Lantern coming up, Superman, there have been a huge number of franchised films that have been part of the Warner [tent pole] strategy that's been the reason for Warner's unparallel high and consistent earnings advantage over the other studios and DC has already been a part of that and we are now going to outline an even more expansive plan for that in the coming months."

Bewkes also said that you'll "hear more about our plans to mine more aggressively the deep catalogue of DC Comics characters across Warner Brothers' theatrical, home video, TV and games divisions and across our other divisions as well."

So it looks like the announcements will not only consist of their theatrical line-up but cover a variety of different entertainment mediums as well.

I'm hoping the implication of Superman will mean that we'll hear something new regarding the fledgling Superman film franchise. It was last reported a few months ago from Jeff Robinov, top executive at WB, that the intention would be to reboot the franchise after Superman Returns, so maybe in a few weeks we will hear about their plans with the character.

Also, while it could be far-fetched, but perhaps WB will announce their plans for the next Batman film including the confirmation of Christopher Nolan as director? We'll see, I guess.

 

[ClayinCA]

An announcement would be nice. There are tons of employees at DC wondering what their future is going to be.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I saw this myself on comingsoon.net. I was initially quite excited but I'm wondering if it will merely relate to animated movies or tv show. No disrespect to such projects, but I'm more interested in seeing where the cinematic projects will go next.

I'm hoping there will be some announcement about a sequel to The Dark Knight (ideally with Nolan returning) and a new Superman project (presumably a reboot but I retain a little hope that Brandon Routh might reprise his role). I think it's too early to see any Green Lantern footage (don't think it's started shooting yet, has it?) but perhaps we could get the logo and a teaser trailer or poster. At an outside bet, we might get an announcement about Wonder Woman, Aquaman or maybe even Green Arrow. Could Goyer's Supermax script be back in business?

Realistically, I think there will be talk of another season of Smallville, some animated projects and some games and comics talk. The best we might get is confirmation that a further Batman sequel is another year or 2 away - lips have been awfully sealed on that topic of late and I'd be surprised if there was much progress on it. So anything more solid than that has to be a pleasant surprise.

 

[FreezeC77]

Could/should be a Flash movie in the works. Although I think Ryan Reynolds should have been Wally West instead of playing Hal Jordan in GL.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

One of those announcements could be Watchmen-related.

 

[CaptainCanada]

They'll maybe possible think about a Superman movie sometime in the next 10 years! And continue to flail around with the rest of the catalogue!

 

[Dick Whitman]

Could/should be a Flash movie in the works. Although I think Ryan Reynolds should have been Wally West instead of playing Hal Jordan in GL.

Would it even be Wally in a Flash movie at this point? I just wondering with the return of Barry Allen in the comics, is that who DC would want to showcase?

 

[S. Gomez]

One of those announcements could be Watchmen-related.

*shudder*

I hope there's news about the next Batman movie. And frankly, if Christopher Nolan isn't involved I'm going to be very disappointed.

 

[FreezeC77]

Could/should be a Flash movie in the works. Although I think Ryan Reynolds should have been Wally West instead of playing Hal Jordan in GL.

Would it even be Wally in a Flash movie at this point? I just wondering with the return of Barry Allen in the comics, is that who DC would want to showcase?

Well that will be up to DC to which Flash they go with, but I've always preferred Wally West so that's why whenever a movie comes up I mention Wally West as being the Flash

 

[23skidoo]

One of those announcements could be Watchmen-related.

That'll be as warmly received as "Lord of the Rings II: Gollum's Revenge".

Alex

 

[Admiral_Young]

Well now that Barry Allen has returned and people have been buying Geoff John's The Flash Rebirth and the future Flash ongoing that is coming I think maybe a Flash movie would use Barry. I had hopes for the David Goyer written and directed project that Ryan Reynolds had been loosely attached to but was dropped. With the the reports regarding Nolan "mentoring" the Superman franchise and prepping Batman 3 I think we'll get status reports on "Wonder Woman", "The Flash". I think there was an article somewhere that said that DC ENT wants to get all of their film properties out and design them similar to what Marvel Studios is doing with the Avengers movie with regards to a proper big budget Justice League live action film. As Dan said in his original post...we'll see.

 

[JacksonArcher]

Ryan Reynolds is much more suited for The Flash than Green Lantern. I wouldn't have mind David Goyer writing it but directing? Meh.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I am going to sound very old here...

If all of this was happening 10 years ago or earlier I would be very excited about all these possible films. But now at 31 years old the novelty of live action Superheroes has worn off for me. Back then I lived and breath DC Comics. Plus the long drawn out development of these things which only occasionally results in really solid movies.

But I am more than willing to let a good movie sneak up and surprise me. I tend to enjoy it better that way. Without following all the behind the scenes news.

 

[JacksonArcher]

I am going to sound very old here...

If all of this was happening 10 years ago or earlier I would be very excited about all these possible films. But now at 31 years old the novelty of live action Superheroes has worn off for me. Back then I lived and breath DC Comics. Plus the long drawn out development of these things which only occasionally results in really solid movies.

But I am more than willing to let a good movie sneak up and surprise me. I tend to enjoy it better that way. Without following all the behind the scenes news.

Ten years ago I was enjoying The Phantom Menace, so...

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

I am going to sound very old here...

If all of this was happening 10 years ago or earlier I would be very excited about all these possible films. But now at 31 years old the novelty of live action Superheroes has worn off for me. Back then I lived and breath DC Comics. Plus the long drawn out development of these things which only occasionally results in really solid movies.

But I am more than willing to let a good movie sneak up and surprise me. I tend to enjoy it better that way. Without following all the behind the scenes news.

I'm 35 and I still have a great deal of enthusiasm for following development news and rumors of superhero films. When it comes to my preferred genres of entertainment I have the endurance of a marathon runner.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Woohoo! Blue Beetle movie here we come!

Oh and "Sally! Go to your room!"

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ Me too. I rarely read comics any more, but in addition to sequels to superhero movies we've already seen (Iron Man 2 etc) I'm looking forward to the DC movies, to Thor, Jonah Hex and am hoping there'll be movie versions of the likes of Prince Namor etc.

I think it's a bit silly to lump them all together as 'superhero movies.' The Spider-man movies were very different to Chris Nolan's Batman movies, which were different from Iron Man, which was different from Blade, which was different from Superman Returns, which - well, you get my drift. They're arguably the modern day westerns and with that genre, you had big differences between your John Fords, your Sergio Leones, your Sam Peckinpahs etc.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Their proper designation should be comic book adaptions...since that's what they are not just on superheroes.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Superhero films are a genre, as distinct from comic book adaptations (which are of course by no means all superhero films). Hancock isn't a comic book adaptation, but it is a superhero film, and vice versa for Road to Perdition. As with any genre, the superhero genre has a range of styles and sub-genres within it.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

DC Entertainment has named their executive team. Jim Lee and Dan DiDio will be the Co-Publishers of DC Comics, while Geoff Johns has been named Chief Creative Officer. They, along with two other executives, will report directly to Diane Nelson. You can read the full press release at Deadline Hollywood here.