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Warner bros announce superhero films through 2020

He's been on the big screen recently in The Expendables series, and he had a cameo in Hail, Caesar!

But yeah, I mostly remember him for his work from the late 80s/early 90s and that Eurosong video :D
 
Dick Whitman said:
Dolph Lundgren has been mostly appearing in direct to video action films the last few decades. Directing a number of those himself. Mostly produced overseas where he had been living. Sometime last year I read on a message board that he recently moved to the US to make it easier to pursue and audition for larger productions. With his role on Arrow and now this his plan clearly is working.
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It's getting harder and harder to make a decent DTV action movie with dwindling costs and production values. Sometimes the star just doesn't care (see Steven Seagal). Sometimes they have to take what they can get in hopes that there will be a diamond in the rough every now and then (see Van Damme). The DTV crap that the likes of Willis and Travolta spit out easily have the best production value, but that's about all they have going for them.

Lundgren's DTV resume has a lot of rough spots, then it looked like he was starting to make movies that were at least making an effort to be more, even if it meant taking a supporting role, and now he's back to doing a lot of crap because of the struggling market. He made an Uwe Boll movie for crying out loud!

Aquaman was the kind of movie that was supposed to happen with his Expendables career revitalization which never happened.
 
Captain of the USS Averof said:
WB answers by hiring Ivan Drago
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That's a pretty nice take on her comic outfit. I'm assuming this must be a more casual outfit, while other outfit is battle armor.
I bet the cast members are probably going to be very tired of being wet by the time they finish filming.
 
dodge said:
Reportedly, the next DCEU movie to enter production will be Shazam, helmed by David F. Sandberg.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/shazam-is-next-dc-movie-shoot-1022821
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So, the guy who just made a sequel to a terrible spinoff of a good horror movie is directing Shazam. In fact, basically his whole career is horror movies and this also seems to be only his second mainstream film.

So take that and add to it the fact that its almost certainly going to be based off Geoff Johns' outright atrocious version of "Shazam", aka the one and only original Captain Marvel, and probably have nothing to do with the 71 years of the character's history before the New 52 and it looks like my favorite DC hero is getting completely shafted. I was starting to get a bit hopeful after WW, but it looks like they are literally making my personal "worst case scenario" of a superhero film.

The Big Red Chesse has been constantly screwed over in comics since Trial of Shazam! and then Final Crisis/the aftermath of FC got rid of Billy as a hero, then the New 52 completely killed the very concept of the character in DC Comics and now this. Well, at least it can't get any worse when it comes to movies DC could make. I just wish my favorite DC hero got the movie he deserved (since he won't be getting the comics he deserves any time soon). Instead a guy who makes no budget horror movies is almost certainly taking a version of the character that would make the creators spin in their graves and trying to make a movie. The DCEU: Every time you think they can't go lower, they grab a shovel and keep digging. I loved WW and I have a bit of hope for JL, but this is just terrible news.
 
kirk55555 said:
So, the guy who just made a sequel to a terrible spinoff of a good horror movie is directing Shazam. In fact, basically his whole career is horror movies and this also seems to be only his second mainstream film.
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You know what Sam Raimi did before "Spider-Man", right?!
 
Wonder Woman's massive success might have blown WB's minds, and they could be scrambling to focus on more female lead superhero movies in the next few years like Batgirl and Gotham City Sirens.

Poor mopey Superman is going to get his sequel pushed way back because so many people hate him.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
You know what Sam Raimi did before "Spider-Man", right?!
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Raimi made a few good, well loved (at least in the "cult film" sense) films and (admittedly) one or two flops. But hHe didn't start his mainstream career at almost the lowest possible position (directing a sequel to a terrible spinoff of a good horror movie) and Evil Dead 1 & 2 and Army of Darkness were more well known (even pre-Spider-Man) and had wider releases then anything this guy had done before his Anabelle sequel.

So, yeah, the horror comedy guy who had more then proven himself did a few good Spider-Man films. As opposed to the low rent mostly unknown horror guy who is one of the last choices anyone would pick for Shazam if they gave a shit about the character at all (which WB doesn't and DC definitely hasn't since about 2004). In the end, the fact that they're almost certainly going with the unheroic, arrogant asshole New 52 version of Shazam is what will ultimately make this my most hated superhero film ever. Assigning one of the worst possible types of directors to the movie is just another nail in the coffin.

Skywalker said:
Wait, the guy who did Bad Taste is making The Lord of the Rings?! :eek:
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Well, since I consider only three of Jackson's movies to be great (with three others mixed to mediocre, guess which ones those are) he's not a great example. I honestly hate the few none LOTR related Jackson films I've seen (Brain Dead is one of the worst horror movies I've seen, and I think I fell into a coma about 7 hours into his King Kong film). I doubt the guy behind the sequel to Anabelle, a atrocious horror spinoff, is going to be able to just luck his way into making a few good films like Jackson seemed to.
 
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