Future DC Studios projects discussion thread - News, rumors, etc.
#351
DVD Talk Legend
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Who is the Clint Eastwood-looking guy in the middle-left of that fan art?
#353
DVD Talk Legend
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Thanks. I don't know if I ever got around to seeing that one.
#356
re: Future DC Studios projects discussion thread - News, rumors, etc.
A shared cinematic universe is, to use a cliche, like a big ass boat. It's hard to turn a big ass boat - you really have to swing that sucker around, and it can take some time. The DC Movieverse is, in this case, the big ass boat, and I keep hearing whispers that it's getting reoriented in the wake of Batman v Superman being what it is (ie, bad).
I don't know how that's going to shake out when it comes to Justice League - the captain who was already mis-steering that boat is still steering that one! - but I think we will see that shift happening in some of the DC solo movies that are coming up. While The Flash lost director Seth Grahame-Smith WB is sticking with his script (for now, there will be rewrites as there always are rewrites), and that script is lighter and poppier, focusing on the friendship of The Flash and Cyborg, who hit it off in Justice League. Wonder Woman, I hear, is a very hopeful movie, flying in the face of the cynicism of Batman v Superman. And Warner Bros is developing another movie that definitely doesn't fit into the tone of the DC Movieverse as established: Booster Gold.
Zack Stentz, who has credits on movies like Thor, the new Power Rangers and Agent Cody Banks, is working on the script right now. I had heard that Greg Berlanti, the guy who runs the (tonally correct) DC TVverse is producing, and a recent appearance by Stentz on the "Fatman on Batman" podcast bears this out. Thanks to Cleats and Capes for listening to the podcast and picking out a couple of facts that back up everything I've heard: Stentz is writing Booster Gold with Berlanti producing and possibly interested in directing.
Booster Gold is a great character. He's an ex-athelete turned security guard in the future who steals a time machine (and a couple of superheroic objects, like a Legion of Superheroes flight ring) and comes back to the modern day intending to use his future knowledge and tech to become rich and famous. Callow, selfish and more than a little dopey, Booster's journey is from buffoon to true hero. In the classic 80s run of Justice League International he became best friends with Blue Beetle, and the two hatched harebrained schemes and plans and shared many a hearty "Bwa-ha-ha!" over the years.
Booster is very, very different from what we've seen in the DC Movieverse so far, and the fact that this movie is even in development gives me hope and backs up the whispers I have heard that Warner Bros - and especially Ben Affleck - are very hip to what went wrong with BvS, and that the opportunity exists to fix the larger universe.
I don't know what the status of Booster Gold is right now (it seems to be on hold), and I think it's a solo movie - ie, not the Blue and Gold buddy movie many have wanted - but the fact that it's managed to be in development at all during the Reign of Snyder is really impressive. I think there's an opening at WB where Booster Gold could suddenly see its fortunes changing, and getting closer to being a real movie.
#360
DVD Talk Legend
re: Future DC Studios projects discussion thread - News, rumors, etc.
Yay, I am looking forward to a Booster Gold movie just as much as the Cyborg movie. Which is to say not at all.
#361
DVD Talk Legend
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Booster Gold could be DC's Deadpool. Sort of. Not as graphic or sexualized, but a real irreverent, off the wall movie. I'd love to see it.
#362
DVD Talk Godfather
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I'd love to see Booster Gold too, completely outside of the current tone that the other DC movies are going for though. Hopefully they'll be smart enough to realize that.
#363
DVD Talk Hero
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Booster Gold?
They're still throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Look, guys, you need to establish your universe with the big guns... superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, and Justice League... before you start looking at c-listers.
They're still throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Look, guys, you need to establish your universe with the big guns... superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, and Justice League... before you start looking at c-listers.
#366
DVD Talk Godfather
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To be fair though, all those are already planned and on tap. This seems like it's in it's early stages, and it doesn't sound like it's leap frogging any of those.
#367
DVD Talk Legend
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Marvel was also a different situation though and I'd argue that they went with the most bankable characters they had access to.
Maybe but this is also DC who chose to prioritize making Suicide Squad which is a pretty random selection as their third film rather than focusing on a core character. It does seem like a lot of their decisions have been randomly made and them hoping that whatever they're trying will work. I doubt the Booster Gold film is coming soon but they have made questionable choices to date in my opinion.
Maybe but this is also DC who chose to prioritize making Suicide Squad which is a pretty random selection as their third film rather than focusing on a core character. It does seem like a lot of their decisions have been randomly made and them hoping that whatever they're trying will work. I doubt the Booster Gold film is coming soon but they have made questionable choices to date in my opinion.
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Nobody was clamoring for an Iron Man movie and Cap and Thor certainly didn't seem very cool at the time. Between having those three leftovers and the Hulk deal that let them produce the movie with Universal only distributing it's kinda miraculous that things worked out the way they did.
#369
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
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Nobody was clamoring for an Iron Man movie and Cap and Thor certainly didn't seem very cool at the time. Between having those three leftovers and the Hulk deal that let them produce the movie with Universal only distributing it's kinda miraculous that things worked out the way they did.
Cap and Thor I agree were a trickier nut to crack. I'm just glad we are past the timid, tentative steps with this stuff and now we can finally see the four color process fantasy elements splashed around big and bold.
#372
DVD Talk Legend
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Which just so happened to be the leftover scraps from the X-Men/Spider-Man superhero boom.
Nobody was clamoring for an Iron Man movie and Cap and Thor certainly didn't seem very cool at the time. Between having those three leftovers and the Hulk deal that let them produce the movie with Universal only distributing it's kinda miraculous that things worked out the way they did.
Nobody was clamoring for an Iron Man movie and Cap and Thor certainly didn't seem very cool at the time. Between having those three leftovers and the Hulk deal that let them produce the movie with Universal only distributing it's kinda miraculous that things worked out the way they did.
#373
DVD Talk Godfather
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Maybe but this is also DC who chose to prioritize making Suicide Squad which is a pretty random selection as their third film rather than focusing on a core character. It does seem like a lot of their decisions have been randomly made and them hoping that whatever they're trying will work. I doubt the Booster Gold film is coming soon but they have made questionable choices to date in my opinion.
#374
DVD Talk Legend
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I dunno I kind of feel like they are throwing shit at the wall truthfully. A lot of the ideas in Batman V Superman felt that way and Suicide Squad feels that way just in the sense that I feel it's too early to focus on when the core characters of the Justice League aren't even well established. Also just the general approach with how the films are coming out seems all over the place and like there's not a real plan in place for the universe but more just films they're planning on making.
There should have been a more natural progression in my opinion. If it were me after Man of Steel we'd have gotten a Batman film and a Wonder Woman film and possibly even a second Superman film. If they had been smarter they could have easily done two of those in the same year. Then I'd have went with whichever of the three was left and done that and Batman V Superman in the same year which would have led into the Justice League film.
There should have been a more natural progression in my opinion. If it were me after Man of Steel we'd have gotten a Batman film and a Wonder Woman film and possibly even a second Superman film. If they had been smarter they could have easily done two of those in the same year. Then I'd have went with whichever of the three was left and done that and Batman V Superman in the same year which would have led into the Justice League film.
#375
DVD Talk Godfather
re: Future DC Studios projects discussion thread - News, rumors, etc.
I dunno I kind of feel like they are throwing shit at the wall truthfully. A lot of the ideas in Batman V Superman felt that way and Suicide Squad feels that way just in the sense that I feel it's too early to focus on when the core characters of the Justice League aren't even well established. Also just the general approach with how the films are coming out seems all over the place and like there's not a real plan in place for the universe but more just films they're planning on making.
There should have been a more natural progression in my opinion. If it were me after Man of Steel we'd have gotten a Batman film and a Wonder Woman film and possibly even a second Superman film. If they had been smarter they could have easily done two of those in the same year. Then I'd have went with whichever of the three was left and done that and Batman V Superman in the same year which would have led into the Justice League film.
There should have been a more natural progression in my opinion. If it were me after Man of Steel we'd have gotten a Batman film and a Wonder Woman film and possibly even a second Superman film. If they had been smarter they could have easily done two of those in the same year. Then I'd have went with whichever of the three was left and done that and Batman V Superman in the same year which would have led into the Justice League film.
It isn't a commentary on the execution of said properties or the quality of the movie and script.