After witnessing Marvel’s The Avengers make in what monetary
terms comes out to about a small nation’s GDP, Warner Brothers is salivating at
the chance to rake in mega-bucks courtesy of their own superhero-super-team
movie… the Justice League. By the looks of it, however, Warner Brothers seems
to be going about it all wrong. Rather than take the slow approach that Marvel
did where they introduce the necessary characters one film at a time while
establishing future plot threads therein, Warner Brothers and DC seem to be
just running in guns blazing.
Now let’s stop and evaluate all of this so far. The first
real step toward making a DC super-team film was made with Green Lantern… which
under-performed and was not exactly embraced by the geek masses. However, WB
immediately green-lit a sequel rather than go back to the drawing board. The
next film hasn’t even come out yet… Man of Steel. DC and WB have a lot riding
on this newest Superman film. If this one doesn’t cut the mustard, they are in
serious trouble. With only these two films, they are talking about releasing a
Justice League movie NEXT YEAR!
Jonny Prophet and I can see disaster approaching. First, you
have way too much background to cover with these characters. You can’t just
introduce Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman and so on in a two hour movie and expect
a satisfying story. Do they expect to cram in a villain too? Green Lantern tried
to do too much in a single movie and it showed. The other problem is that the
rumors persist that the villain of this film will be Darkseid. We ask ‘what do
you do for an encore?’ Darkseid is like the baddest of the bad. The Avengers
didn’t start out fighting Thanos. You have to build to something that epic!
Oh, and there’s also this nasty rumor that WB and DC are
just going to use the “Robin” John Blake character from the Dark Knight Rises
as Batman. You might as well just flush any Justice League franchise down the
toilet at that point. Both Jonny and I say ‘end the Dark Knight trilogy and
start over!’ We love Joseph Gordon Levitt, but people want Bruce Wayne as
Batman, not some new guy. Plus, a lot of people were already irritated by the ending
of Dark Knight Rises. They need to just start the Batman franchise over. You
don’t even need to have the new Batman movie debut until after Justice League,
I mean, come on… everyone knows about Batman as is. I say lets make a new
Batman franchise and this time have Robin (preferable not a 20 year old this
time!). Also, a new Batman franchise means you get to have Joker again! Hell, add Harley Quinn too! People will go to
a Batman movie, especially one with Joker and Harley!
So this leads me to a special project that Jonny and I have
been putting together. Over the next few months, we will be putting up a series
of Live Action Castings of every member of the Justice League (minus Superman
and Green Lantern of course, since they are established). It will be the “what
we would do if we were in charge of Warner Brothers” challenge that will
establish what movies would come out before the Justice League movie as well as
after and the JL film itself! That’s right, we aren’t just bitching; we are coming
up with solutions! So tune in this week when the first of the Justice League
Live Action Castings will be uploaded!
Until then, stay strange.
