DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

[Captaindemotion]

Aquaman 2 will hopefully begin filming in the U.K. in June, with the working title Necrus (the name of another underwater city)

https://discussingfilm.net/2021/03/12/aquaman-2-eyes-june-2021-filming-start-in-uk-exclusive/

 

[Enterprise is Great]

The Flash: Billy Crudup leaves, Maribel Verdu cast

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/the-flash-billy-crudup-maribel-verdu-1234929645/amp/

 

[JD]

I wonder who they'll get to replace Crudup?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I wonder who they'll get to replace Crudup?

Wesley Shipp

 

[Dick Whitman]

Wesley Shipp

Not surprisingly I would support that!

Almost too perfect to expect them to do it. Beyond John’s deep history with the Flash it would be a surprise connection between Ezra’s Barry and Grant Gustin’s Barry. Same father in different dimensions. But imagine that their differences are due to having different Mothers. I am going to stop writing my own script, risk setting myself up to not liking whatever they actually do and whomever they cast.

 

[Tosk]

They should replace him with Billy Campbell. A reverse Jennifer Connelly move, if you will.

 

[Samurai8472]

Not surprisingly I would support that!

Almost too perfect to expect them to do it. Beyond John’s deep history with the Flash it would be a surprise connection between Ezra’s Barry and Grant Gustin’s Barry. Same father in different dimensions. But imagine that their differences are due to having different Mothers. I am going to stop writing my own script, risk setting myself up to not liking whatever they actually do and whomever they cast.

Uh....yeah.

That was a nod or a really lazy move

 

[Tosk]

To be fair, the "hands on the glass" thing is almost a prerequisite when someone visits a loved one in prison.

 

[Nerys Myk]

To be fair, the "hands on the glass" thing is almost a prerequisite when someone visits a loved one in prison.

Classic trope.

 

[F. King Daniel]

To be fair, the "hands on the glass" thing is almost a prerequisite when someone visits a loved one in prison.

Just like how if you're dying of radiation in Star Trek, you have to crawl to some glass and push your hand against it

 

[Noname Given]

Just like how if you're dying of radiation in Star Trek, you have to crawl to some glass and push your hand against it

Barry Allen: "You have been and shall always be... My Dad!"

 

[Aragorn]

I wonder who they'll get to replace Crudup?

Remember when there were competing movies about Steve Prefonaine? One starred Billy Crudup. The other starred... Jared Leto.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I wonder who they'll get to replace Crudup?

Jim Cavaziel. Or am I the only one who finds them almost indistinguishable?

 

[cooleddie74]

Skeet Ulrich. Jim Caviezel. Billy Crudup.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

 

[Captaindemotion]

Skeet Ulrich. Jim Caviezel. Billy Crudup.

Skeet Ulrich is the Aldi Johnny Depp

 

[suarezguy]

Why did Batman 89 having the Joker having killed the Bruce's parents cause a lot of resentment?

 

[Aragorn]

Why did Batman 89 having the Joker having killed the Bruce's parents cause a lot of resentment?

I didn't have any problem with it for that one movie, but it sure made Gotham small.

 

[Christopher]

Why did Batman 89 having the Joker having killed the Bruce's parents cause a lot of resentment?

I don't know if it caused resentment, but it was certainly revisionist, and I didn't care for the way it forced Batman's origin to fit the stock revenge-movie formula by having Batman's motivation be to exact retribution on the murderer of his parents, rather than just to fight crime and protect the innocent, which should be motivation enough for a superhero. I preferred the way Batman Begins made Bruce's desire for vengeance into a wrong path that he had to learn to set aside in favor of justice and protection.

Besides, having Batman be inadvertently responsible for the Joker's creation has value in giving the Joker a reason for his obsession with Batman, as well as giving Batman a sense of responsibility for stopping the Joker. But having the Joker be reciprocally responsible for Batman's creation is, as Aragorn said, just too much a case of small-universe syndrome.

Anyway, I've never liked the idea of giving the Joker an origin at all. I wince whenever any later production uses the name "Jack Napier." At least the DCAU eventually established it as an alias (which it should be, since it's obviously a pun on "jackanapes"), but now Batwoman is using it as the Joker's real name. I prefer it when his true identity is unknown.

 

[theenglish]

Why did Batman 89 having the Joker having killed the Bruce's parents cause a lot of resentment?

I was never a fan of Batman 89 and I saw it opening weekend. It wasn't because of the Joker killing Thomas and Martha. We got a Burton film with a guy dressed as Batman but little connection to the actual Batman mythos. I was hoping for a Batman more akin to the comics of the time.

As for not liking the change to Bruce's backstory, for decades, we knew that Joe Chill had murdered Batman's parents who had been hired by a mobster named Lew Moxon. Bruce was left alive as a witness so the murders would not be traced back to Moxon. That was the story, and Burton's Batman was the first time I had seen that story changed. So for me it wasn't a great change.