Batgirl (D: El Arbi / Fallah) [CANCELLED]
#101
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re: Batgirl (D: El Arbi / Fallah) [CANCELLED]
I'll ask again? Why are so many people excited for this? The character has always seemed laughable in my opinion, whether from the old TV show to the Schumacher shitfest. Ok so she had a couple of decent storylines in comics, but what does the character bring to the table which has not already been said with Batman? And for me Whedon has only ever done one good thing... The Avengers. Never dug Buffy, Firefly, Age of Ultron. Nothing else.
Personally any Bat Family related film I have interest in. Batman has one of the best assortments of side hero characters as well as villains. The only film I'm not overly excited about related to the character is the Gotham City Sirens film. Mainly I'm not a huge fan of Harley and I just don't think villain films are as interesting.
#104
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#105
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Black Widow is a known property at this point and whilst I have always felt a solo movie would be tough for the character, after Winter Soldier I think a great Cold War statue action thriller could be fashioned. And I doubt they would ever have her solo in the movie, probably Hawkeye as a backup character, and that could work if they finally gave that character some room to breath and add in some of his badassness from the comics.
#106
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Oh and I agree that there are very few female protagonists, but they at times seem to struggle to find an audience on the big screen. Seems like times are a changing and hopefully we will get some better female hero movies. Just that Batgirl to me seems quite a weak character and for the majority of people who see movies, and who don't read comics, I don't know if they will buy into the character unless it's handled very, very well indeed. When I read the report I had zero interest or excitement and I honestly don't know what they could do to change that for me.
#108
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re: Batgirl (D: El Arbi / Fallah) [CANCELLED]
I'll ask again? Why are so many people excited for this? The character has always seemed laughable in my opinion, whether from the old TV show to the Schumacher shitfest. Ok so she had a couple of decent storylines in comics, but what does the character bring to the table which has not already been said with Batman? And for me Whedon has only ever done one good thing... The Avengers. Never dug Buffy, Firefly, Age of Ultron. Nothing else.
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#111
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Whedon is a great choice for Batgirl. He is a fantastic director for female characters. I would have actually preferred him for a Black Widow flick. Her opening scene in The Avengers is pure Whedon and one of my favorite moments in any Marvel film.
#112
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Marvel is putting all of their eggs for a female-led movie in Captain Marvel's basket. A Black Widow solo was always on the backburner and GITS's failure did nothing to help it.
#113
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Completely disagree. Ghost in the Shell has no effect on one of Marvel's most popular characters.
#115
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I think Ghost in the Shell was a hard sell to people who weren't fans of the anime. I think it's fairly safe to assume that most of the general public have never seen or even heard of the original film and most could probably care less about anime. I don't think that film has any bearing on whether or not there will be a solo Black Widow film. Scarlet Johansson is still a popular actress and with the Marvel brand behind the character I think it's a pretty safe film to attempt.
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There is a transgender character who was added to Batgirl's cast in the last few years. I'm sure some crossed-wires caused cosmic monkey mob types to freak out similar to Miles Morales' existence somehow translating to OMGZ! THEY'RE TURNING PETER PARKER BLACK!
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I Googled and found an article speculating that Batgirl's transgender friend might be a character in the film.
#121
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Joss Whedon called Feige about Batgirl.
Whedon spent years at Marvel not just as the writer and director of the two Avengers movies but also as a consultant, giving input on other projects. And thus when it was revealed he was taking on Batgirl for DC, fans were shocked at the news. It turns out Feige had known about it for a while. And was cool about it.
"He called. A couple months ago, which he didn't have to do and was super cool of him and super nice of him," Feige said. "And we couldn't be more supportive. We want to see a Joss Whedon Batgirl film be awesome."
Whedon spent years at Marvel not just as the writer and director of the two Avengers movies but also as a consultant, giving input on other projects. And thus when it was revealed he was taking on Batgirl for DC, fans were shocked at the news. It turns out Feige had known about it for a while. And was cool about it.
"He called. A couple months ago, which he didn't have to do and was super cool of him and super nice of him," Feige said. "And we couldn't be more supportive. We want to see a Joss Whedon Batgirl film be awesome."
#123
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I feel like the whole "DC vs Marvel" thing matters more to the fans than it does to the people running the publishers and studios.
#124
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#125
re: Batgirl (D: El Arbi / Fallah) [CANCELLED]
How so? I simply noted that in live action form the character so far has not made any significant impression with the mass general public. It's the equivalent to me of having a Black Widow movie released before the character ever appeared in any other Marvel movie. It would be a real unknown quantity and be a hard sell. I think the fans of Batgirl don't realize how limited in quantity they might be at this point in time. Of course that can change, but I can't ever recall anyone ever saying to me or reading online (prior to recent events) what the world really needs is a Batgirl movie.
Oh and the idea of a Bat Family movie is just wrong. I always saw Batman as a character that worked alone as much as possible. Now they want a Batman Shared Universe. No thanks.
Oh and the idea of a Bat Family movie is just wrong. I always saw Batman as a character that worked alone as much as possible. Now they want a Batman Shared Universe. No thanks.