Lastdaysofrain

There were multi-part story lines they did on Justice League Unlimited that could have easily been a life action movie.

You don't need origin stories to have a movie like this, people are familiar enough with the characters to just throw them into the middle of a story line. One thing that DC has over Marvel (there are many) is that their characters are far more arch-typical, so that the basic concept of the character is much easier to grasp (if they don't already know it, but most people probably do, at least for the major iconic characters) than Marvel's characters.

Solid Snake

Yeah, but they had great talent to come up w/ it. Again..who is literally part of the DC movie division? Wait...they do even have a division dedicated to this?

Deftones

do this right and it will be badass. do it wrong and it will be a clusterfuck. they really better have nolan the wizard behind the curtain on this and pay him damn near anything.

Solid Snake

See that's my kneejerk reaction as well. Nolan is the only one so far at WB who's done it right w/ a DC character in this new era. But also...what are his thoughts on DC in general? The other characters...has he ever been fond of them etc etc?

Paul_SD

Their operating philosophy on this sounds like it's "In Nolan We Trust" so I'm sure most people will be deliriously happy at the thought of a collection of colorful characters desaturated and saving the universe in a grim and joyless way.

I don't begrudge them for trying to differentiate this from Avengers- but I do think they are veering 180 degrees in the wrong direction. As RocShemp already said, it was (partly) the labored, forced 'serious' (dark) stuff that dragged Green Lantern down. So let's double down on that.

That's simply brand awareness. It doesn't really have anything to do with audience sympathy or investment in the character which needs to be established on screen at some point.
Not saying it's impossible to craft a team movie without 8 hours of exposition. In some cases a little mystery to certain characters might be advantageous. But each character better be strongly delineated and distinct, with a point of view and personal philosophy that is clearly understood and illustrated by their actions.
Otherwise they'll seem like little more than action figures being puppeted around by the plot.

Sonic

It would be awesome in Justice League movie a love triangle between Green Lantern and Aqua Man and some other not yet out of the closet character (could be villain possibly). Maybe DC can bring in more gay date tickets.

and no I'm not trollin

A cute scene with Green Lantern on Aqua man's back as he is swimming like a dolphin around the Statue Of Liberty.

I mean with the whole gay thing going on with DC lately I bet you that is a good way to bring in more of the crowd out there that don't give a shit about these super heroes.

Paul_SD

I'm pretty sure all the suits at Warner will get to see this for free, so there's little point trying to pander to them.

kgrogers1979

Gay Green Lantern is old news. Today DC showed a new Green Lantern that is apparently Arabic.

Apple Gooncha

I would be shocked if Alan Scott made it into any live action movie ever.

PenguinJoe

Doesn't McG's Superman movie come out this year?

kgrogers1979

But according to DC he is such as major iconic character...

Apple Gooncha

A few days ago, one of my co-workers who is also pretty interested in comics (but is more of a Marvel guy) asked me who the Hell Alan Scott was.

I felt really sure, even after they announced that it was a "major" character, that it wouldn't be anyone higher than some B or C-list character

Dragon Tattoo

You can't have "teh gay" tainting the actual good characters.

They'd make a major character black before they did that (i.e. Spider-man).

kgrogers1979

Miles Morales... although he is the alternate Ultimate universe Spider-Man.

resinrats

Maybe an idea for the movie is to bring in a character some audience members might be aware of. Green Arrow was a pretty major character on Smallville for the later years. At least he'd be someone they might have heard of.

Don't like the 'dark just to be dark' idea thrown around. Its not like Avengers was some sort of comedy. Also, DC's pet dark character Batman even has some humor in his movies. Several times in Dark Knight there were some jokes/humerous moments that didn't come from Joker. Several from Bruce Wayne/Batman himself.

kgrogers1979

The problem with Green Arrow is the audience would perceive him as being a Hawkeye clone, and if DC is trying to differentiate their movie from the Avengers it is unlikely that they would use him.

I can't imagine that DC would use anyone other than the "Big 7" (i.e. Batman, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and either Martian Manhunter or Cyborg). Secondary characters like Green Arrow and Black Canary likely won't show up until the sequel.

Solid Snake

this is making the rounds on youtube and other sites:

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Why So Blu?

^ Nice! - best fan trailer I've seen so far.

RocShemp

The brief snippets of Wonder Woman make me glad that show never saw the light of day.

Why So Blu?

I did like the last one, though.

"My wife?"

VROOOOOOOOOOM!

lol

nando820

I'm shamefully delighted with that trailer...oh god its so tastefully gay I can't resist it

and so here I reached a 1000 posts

kgrogers1979

Apparently before DC does the Justice League movie, they are planning to release a movie based on the Lego universe.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118055994

What the fuck is this shit?

Hokeyboy

It'll be better than any live action JLA movie. Guaranteed.

MrSmearkase

DC isn't doing the LEGO movie, Warner Bros is.

majorjoe23

And it's not just a DC Lego movie, is it? I would bet several Lego licenses will be represented. Except Marvel. I bet we don't get them and DC in the same movie.