Giantrobo

TGM

LOL at all of this revisionist Speed Racer love. It was a gaudy bloated mess, based on one of the most trite kid cartoons ever made.

Supermallet

I also loved Speed Racer, and there's no revisionism for me. You can go back through the old Speed Racer thread where I also say how much I love it.

fumanstan

Same here, I remember a lot of people were saying they actually enjoyed Speed Racer despite the box office bomb. I really liked it as well.

Navinabob

Yikes, I was excited about the Wachowski duo, but the rumor is that WB brass is pushing for...

Brett Ratner!

http://www.supermansupersite.com/0828346.html

Mike86

Eh..Ratner is nothing special if you ask me. He's had a few enjoyable films but nothing where I was overly impressed. Especially not helming a big project like this. If Warner insists on making this film they need to get someone solid behind it and not just whoever they can dig up.

Supermallet

That would guarantee I won't see it.

Solid Snake

Yeah. I don't give a fuck how interesting a JL movie would be to me..that would insure no money of mine towards it.

Navinabob

X-3 was such a giant turd. I can't imagine why they would have faith in him.

DaveyJoe

Wow, really? Ratner already burned the fanboy bridge with X3, they have got to pick somebody better.

Sonic

FRwL

Aw no

Dragon Tattoo

Makes sense. Any solo Batman movie done in the next ten years would be compared (unfavorably) to the Nolan films. Putting him in this is the only viable gameplan they have.

PhantomStranger

Ratner is a studio hack that will get the movie done on time, which is apparently all WB cares about for JLA. It's clear no one in Hollywood has a strong concept for the movie and it's sad to see them fishing around the dregs like Ratner now.

Solid Snake

I thought we already knew that JL would be the intro for a DC universe friendly Batman? Guess it's official now?

cleaver

I imagine Batman would be like Nick Fury in the Marvel movies/Green Arrow in Smallville, recruiting and financing.
And please God no Ratner.

Supermallet

Of course Batman will be rebooted, unless they're going to use JGL as Batman: The Next Generation.

kgrogers1979

Yeah, they already said they planned to reboot Batman, but instead of being a new origin the next movie will take place in his second or third year.

Personally instead of rebooting the Batman movie franchise anytime soon, I would rather see them make another live action Batman TV series. We have had three live action Superman series in as many decades (Superboy in the 80s, Lois & Clark in the 90s, and Smallville in the 2000s) but the last live action Batman series was Adam West in the 60s. Its more than time for Batman to be on the small screen again.

Plus a TV series would really be a much better way to flesh out Batman's huge rogues gallery since a lot of the lesser known rogues like Zsasz, Mad Hatter, Ventriloquist and Scarface stand no chance of ever being used in a movie. Season long storyarcs of Knightfall, No Man's Land, or Hush would be really awesome as well.



There's no chance that they will waste Batman in a minor support role like that. Batman and Superman are the "big two" that will be used to sell the movie. Batman in the JLA movie will be like Batman in the JLA comics... i.e. "the batgod".

If they want to get into the business and financial side of the JLA, they would more likely introduce Maxwell Lord.

B.A.

Did they not see the third X-Men flick?

This.

majorjoe23

We did get Zsasz in Batman Begins.

RocShemp

Would they have the balls to have him kill off Ted Kord in one of the JLA movies?

Solid Snake

Considering how meh Smallville was to me, though rather bold in their attempt...I think a TV Batman (live action) would be pretty meh overall. It would have to be "amazing" for people to accept a TV Batman again. It'd have to at least be as cool as Nolan's was. Cuz that's what people are going to hold it up to. Superman had it easy..he had 2 shit flicks and an alright TV show after that as well. I don't know anything about Superboy the show.

kgrogers1979

A two second cameo appearance hardly counts.

Zsasz will never get a major role in a movie like he possibly could in a Batman TV series.


I would love a movie based on the Giffen/DeMatteis era of JLI with Blue Beetle/Booster Gold bromance and Batman one-punching Guy.


Smallville was "meh" because it was a CW show whose target audience is teenage girls. If Batman was a CW show too, I agree it would also be "meh" but give it to a network and let them go balls to the wall 24-style and it could be awesome.

PhantomStranger

Rumors are the "ordinary human" character they would use is Amanda Waller in that role. She's black, which helps fill out the diversity requirement of any Hollywood production, and in the new DCU they've already remade the character for the movies, slimming her down so they can cast a prettier actress.

kgrogers1979

Eh, I've never been a fan of Waller even before she magically lost 200 lbs in the Flashpoint relaunch.

The new 52 has already replaced Martian Manhunter with Cyborg just so they could get Token Black Guy™ on the team. I imagine Cyborg will be in the movie too instead of Martian Manhunter.

Wonder Woman also fills the Hot Chick With Skimpy Clothes And Big Boobs™ role.