The New Gods (D: Ava DuVernay)
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Yeah, Gifted was good for that kind of movie. The Only Living Boy in New York was not.
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So DC's still looking for that elusive Guardians of the Galaxy equivalent eh?
Instead of, I don't know, rebooting the fucking Justice League?
Only thing I know about the New Gods is what little of Orion I've read a loong time ago and the Supergirl storyline in the Superman/Batman comics a few years ago drawn by Michael Turner.
Meryl Streep for Granny Goodness!
Instead of, I don't know, rebooting the fucking Justice League?
Only thing I know about the New Gods is what little of Orion I've read a loong time ago and the Supergirl storyline in the Superman/Batman comics a few years ago drawn by Michael Turner.
Meryl Streep for Granny Goodness!
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I didn’t love it I just liked certain elements of it. I still really liked the relationship between Peter and Gwen in those films, though I’m sure the fact that they were actually dating at the time led to them having good chemistry. I also thought Garfield was better overall as Spider-Man in that film. The villains and sketchy story elements unfortunately brought the film down.
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Eisner Award-Winning comic book writer and ex-CIA officer Tom King, who currently writes DC Comic’s “Batman,” will co-write “The New Gods” screenplay with filmmaker Ava DuVernay, an individual with knowledge of the project exclusively told TheWrap. DuVernay was previously announced as the film’s director.
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New Gods, which would have been a sprawling tale, was complicated by the fact that its villain, Darkseid, just appeared as a major foil in Zack Snyder's Justice League and there was a desire to have space between the latter and any new appearances.
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After watching A Wrinkle In Time, I'm in full favor of this being shelved.
And if anyone thinks Darkseid appearing in ZSJL has any bearing on this decision, well...
And if anyone thinks Darkseid appearing in ZSJL has any bearing on this decision, well...
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That's exactly what the article says, though. It's worded as if it's not idle speculation, but who knows?
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Until DC/WB get's a version of Feige that can have a vision forward, I'm glad things are being shelved. Maybe that person is Gunn.. who knows? But there needs to be a steady captain at the wheel and it seems everyone is still just doing their own thing.
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and this is why I have always been Marvel first... when I started collecting comics I could never get into dc stuff.
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Look at the early movies... Man of Steel, BvS: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League... they wanted to go from Iron Man to Endgame in five movies. Technically, probably less, because you get the sense that they only made Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman because they wanted their own version of Guardians of the Galaxy with Suicide Squad, and they made a Wonder Woman movie because people responded well to Gal Gadot in Dawn of Justice.
They wanted to reap the rewards of the MCU without doing the heavy lifting.
Marvel and Disney left DC and Warners a roadmap for how to do it, but they decided to take a shortcut and ran their car into a ditch.
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The problem is that Warnermedia just doesn't have the will to put in all of the work Disney and Marvel did with the MCU.
Look at the early movies... Man of Steel, BvS: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League... they wanted to go from Iron Man to Endgame in five movies. Technically, probably less, because you get the sense that they only made Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman because they wanted their own version of Guardians of the Galaxy with Suicide Squad, and they made a Wonder Woman movie because people responded well to Gal Gadot in Dawn of Justice.
They wanted to reap the rewards of the MCU without doing the heavy lifting.
Marvel and Disney left DC and Warners a roadmap for how to do it, but they decided to take a shortcut and ran their car into a ditch.
Look at the early movies... Man of Steel, BvS: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League... they wanted to go from Iron Man to Endgame in five movies. Technically, probably less, because you get the sense that they only made Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman because they wanted their own version of Guardians of the Galaxy with Suicide Squad, and they made a Wonder Woman movie because people responded well to Gal Gadot in Dawn of Justice.
They wanted to reap the rewards of the MCU without doing the heavy lifting.
Marvel and Disney left DC and Warners a roadmap for how to do it, but they decided to take a shortcut and ran their car into a ditch.
1.) Justice League bombed
2.) Ben Affleck fell of the wagon and his Batman died on impact
3.) The Joker was a massive success
With JL being a flop and Affleck out, they had to recast the Snyderverse Batman or clean the slate. The cleaned the slate and The Joker showed Warner that people will show up for a good movie and don't mind the elseworld character of the movie. So buring the Snyderverse, while going on with most of its characters is kind of strange, but most importantly, their movies have to be good. Not every other movie, they need a run, if they want to lose the bad smell.
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The problem is that Warnermedia just doesn't have the will to put in all of the work Disney and Marvel did with the MCU.
Look at the early movies... Man of Steel, BvS: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League... they wanted to go from Iron Man to Endgame in five movies. Technically, probably less, because you get the sense that they only made Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman because they wanted their own version of Guardians of the Galaxy with Suicide Squad, and they made a Wonder Woman movie because people responded well to Gal Gadot in Dawn of Justice.
They wanted to reap the rewards of the MCU without doing the heavy lifting.
Marvel and Disney left DC and Warners a roadmap for how to do it, but they decided to take a shortcut and ran their car into a ditch.
Look at the early movies... Man of Steel, BvS: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League... they wanted to go from Iron Man to Endgame in five movies. Technically, probably less, because you get the sense that they only made Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman because they wanted their own version of Guardians of the Galaxy with Suicide Squad, and they made a Wonder Woman movie because people responded well to Gal Gadot in Dawn of Justice.
They wanted to reap the rewards of the MCU without doing the heavy lifting.
Marvel and Disney left DC and Warners a roadmap for how to do it, but they decided to take a shortcut and ran their car into a ditch.