DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

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  1. Noname Given

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    Zaslav (to Corporate Tax lawyer): "Hey if we shelve/destroy Blue Beetle can we get another production cost tax write off?"

    Corporate Tax Lawyer: No.

    Zaslav: "What the hell, we took a bath on Shazam II but Blue Beetle is kinda like DC's version of Spiderman...Tell marketing to put it on the release slate...with no real marketing maybe we can recoup something over the next decade."
     
  2. DigificWriter

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    Announcing a reboot or a cancellation of something ahead of time absolutely does have a chilling effect on the level of interest in said thing if it's not going to immediately go away.

    You can deny this truth all you want and/or consider the recognition of it as truth to be weird, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a truth.
     
  3. The Realist

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    A couple of tidbits from Gunn on Superman: Legacy:
    https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-mov...-preview-soundtrack-track-listing-1234707361/

    Krypto? Bring it on! (Though that may actually wait for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow -- Krypto has a small but significant role in the graphic novel.)
     
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  4. Samurai8472

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    Krypto- Motion capture by Sean Gunn
     
  5. Christopher

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    Good thing they modified it with "first live-action cinematic version," because we've already had a live-action Krypto in Titans, and sort of a pseudo-Krypto in Smallville.
     
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  6. Mr. Adventure

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    If they hadn't been upfront about their movie plans going forward you know we'd be hearing about how the producers lied to the public.
     
  7. Nerys Myk

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    Even in the Ted Kord days, Spider-man's DNA was part of Blue Beetle.
     
  8. Christopher

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    I didn't know that, but I guess that explains why there's a short released with one of DC's direct-to-video animated movies that pretends to be a '60s Blue Beetle episode in the vein of the '60s Spider-Man cartoon, with limited animation, a catchy theme song, and '60s references, though in a satirical vein rather than playing it straight (the Question is Ted's sidekick and he lectures about objectivism the whole time). On HBO Max, it's the last short film in the compilation under the title Constantine: The House of Mystery, along with the title short and ones based on Kamandi and The Losers.
     
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  9. DigificWriter

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    To be clear, I'm disparaging what I see as this movie's attempt to emulate one specific version of Spider-Man (Tom Holland) as depicted in one specific film (Spider-Man Homecoming), not any general similarities between the Blue Beetle and Spider-Man characters overall.
     
  10. JD

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    I'm almost tempted to do one of the videos where you stop random people on the street and ask them questions, and see once and for all how many random average people actually care that the DC movies are rebooting their universe. Because I still find it very hard to believe that the average movie goer, who probably barely these movies are even connected, is really going to care that much about them doing a reboot.
    As for Blue Beetle, I thought it looked pretty good.
     
  11. Anwar

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    You mean like how Captain America had to be led around by Black Widow and Nick Fury in Winter Soldier?
     
  12. Anwar

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    Sounds less like Venom, more like the Guyver Bio-Booster Armor

    WARNING: R Rated

     
  13. theenglish

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    It's mentioned that the scarab is a world destroying weapon in the trailer. But it's a polite weapon in this version. Jaime's version of the Blue Beetle really had a lot of potential and I like his supporting cast, but in many ways he's Peter Parker without the angst.
     
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    In the comics, Jaime didn't realize that scarab's true purpose at first. He had an opportunity to build a relationship with it before it became "activated" (I can't remember the details) and it was that relationship that helped him gain control over it. I'm not familiar with the Young Justice version, but it seems like he still hasn't learned to fully control the scarab? In the mini-series that is currently running, he's lost control of the scarab again and the other heroes are worried this could mean the scarab is going back to its old ways although there are hints this is not the case.
     
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  15. Kai "the spy"

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    Homecoming, where your main critique appears to be that the titular Spider-Man played second fiddle to Iron Man? Okay, so ... who is Jaime overshadowed by in this trailer?
     
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  16. The Knappos

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    Hang on, that's overshadowed by 4-scenes-Iron-Man and 4-or-5-scenes-Hogan?
    Is that right?
    That's in-all-but-maybe-five-scenes Peter Parker/Spider-man, right?

    In a DC Thread?
     
  17. DigificWriter

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    With this Blue Beetle trailer, my complaint is that the film seems to be trying too hard to emulate the general template and tone of Spider-Man Homecoming, not that it is making the same specific narrative mistakes (overshadowing the titular character) as that film.

    It also doesn't help that the cast includes a person whom I find to be crass, annoying, and not the least bit funny (George Lopez).
     
  18. Noname Given

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Homecoming
    Lol - the film made 880 Million in Worldwide Box Office receipts. That's 1,080,039,164 in 2023 adjusting for inflation.

    I'm sure Zaslav would LOVE that level of 'mistake' on any of the recently released DCEU films.
     
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  19. DigificWriter

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    Financial or 'critical' success does not equal quality.
     
  20. Noname Given

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    But the failure of BOTH has led to Warner Bros. decision to scrap and try to reboot the DCEU.
     
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