DC Comics on Film

[bad future]

This Hollywood Reporter article has a little bit more than Gunn's video, which for Superman at least gives an idea of what the "Legacy" refers to: “It’s not an origin story,” Safran said. “It focuses on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing. He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way. He is kindness in a world that thinks that kindness is old-fashioned.”

[ntnon]

When Warren Ellis created The Authority he envisioned it as a superhero series with the aesthetic of a Michael Bay film. Will be interesting if they go after Bay to direct. I never followed The Authority post-Wildstorm era as DC executives pretty much knee-capped the series due to censorship issues.

Or, to put it in more arch terms.. When The Authority were part of the DC-owned-but-entirely-separate WildStorm imprint, the stories were excellent, unconstrained by the need to overlap with a tonally different universe. So the Midnighter was an unfettered Batman; Apollo was logically-extreme Superman and Jenny Sparks et al. were drawn to rule rather than occasionally intervene, etc. But when everything crossed over and was folded into the DCU, the novelty and commentary and extremism was lost and tamed and hamstrung.

So making them part of the new extended universe seems... shortsighted.

[Dr Amicus]

The most exciting part of this for me is the announcement of a new Swamp Thing film. The recent TV series was good, but unfortunately cancelled after just the one series (after setting up the Big Bad for series 2...).

[ntnon]

The most exciting part of this for me is the announcement of a new Swamp Thing film. The recent TV series was good, but unfortunately cancelled after just the one series (after setting up the Big Bad for series 2...).

DC seem to be doing on film (and TV) what they've been doing in comics - cancel, reboot, remake, restart. Big event, grand plans, did't hit, try again.. rinse and repeat.

[Kracker]

Lots of other details about DC's plan coming out, The announced slate is only half of the first chapter of the new DCU and that 8 to 10 year plan consists of two chapters, which means that you have roughly 4 projects being released a year. pretty consistent considering the remaining 4 DCU projects are being released this year. And that means we'll have nothing coming from DC in 2024 except for that new Joaquin/Joker movie, including possibly no TV shows, with Doom Patrol, Titans, Arrowverse/Flash all ending this year and apparently that promised second season of Peacemaker is on hold indefinitely since Gunn is too busy with those first DCU projects; the Waller show will probably just serve as the continuation of Peacemaker instead.

[Monterey Jack]

Can't they just...give up on the Cinematic Universe thing? It's clearly not working for them.

[brundlefly]

Harley Quinn fans should rejoice at its bonus Valentine's Day special and wonder at its ability to exist pointing and laughing outside ongoing HBOMax/DCU home repair issues. Like its heroine, the special is an out-of-control, over-the-top mix of sickly sweet, playfully obscene, and just plain wrong; its biggest swings expose its most tender parts. One of the missions here is to take comic book romances -- foundational, epic, ridiculous -- and normalize them into simple, wondrous stories of connection. But also thankfully this is an episode that asks how much Bane is too much Bane and never settles on an answer.

[Mr Sausage]

What lame irony had Danny Elfman hired for Justice League, a pointless waste of his talents on a movie there was no reason to hire him for, but not The Flash. So now we're going to get a movie full of someone else quoting his majestic Batman score instead of hearing it from the man himself.

[ntnon]

What lame irony had Danny Elfman hired for Justice League, a pointless waste of his talents on a movie there was no reason to hire him for, but not The Flash. So now we're going to get a movie full of someone else quoting his majestic Batman score instead of hearing it from the man himself.

I fear everything about the Flash will be bittersweet - there is the distinct possibility that it will be extremely good, which will largely serve to highlight what could have been. If Miller weren't compromised; if the DCEU hadn't been built on clay, hubris and darkness; if Keaton had been Batman longer or more recently; if Affleck had had a good film to be in... so much wasted potential in the DC films.

Can Gunn get it right?

[Matt]

I’m imagining that The Flash will be a great hit commercially and, to a lesser extent, critically, but we will see a whole lot of “extremely online” hand-wringing and/or scolding takes questioning the personal ethics of enjoying a film starring a known abuser.

[ntnon]

I’m imagining that The Flash will be a great hit commercially and, to a lesser extent, critically, but we will see a whole lot of “extremely online” hand-wringing and/or scolding takes questioning the personal ethics of enjoying a film starring a known abuser.

Hopefully there are some balanced voices on both ends of the debate, because that age-old debate is becoming more and more relevant.

(Is there a good back-and-forth here about separating the artist from the art and remembering that the collaberative nature of film transcends most individuals' parts..?)

[Kracker]

Superman: Legacy begins filming and is now titled just Superman

[yoloswegmaster]

Luca Guadagnino to direct "Sgt. Rock", starring Daniel Craig and written by Justin Kuritzkes

[domino harvey]

I’ll believe it when cameras actually roll

[knives]

I’d wait for even a trailer. It wouldn’t shock me if it ended even at the last second.

[Never Cursed]

Guadagnino has to rival the other two most famous working directors with Italian surnames for projects announced and then abandoned; the trades ought to embargo news that those three have signed on to a project 'till sets get built. I honestly can't see Craig sticking around for it either, given that he just got out from under the yoke of action franchise obligation.

[Mr Sausage]

the other two most famous working directors with Italian surnames

Scorsese and Tarantino?

[Never Cursed]

Yes, though I could just as easily have included Coppola

[Altair]

That's such a surreal combination of talent it could be quite beautiful, if it ever occurs (which I highly doubt).

[dx23]

Luca Guadagnino to direct "Sgt. Rock", starring Daniel Craig and written by Justin Kuritzkes

Spoiler from today's newly released episode of Creature Commandos

SpoilerShow

Sgt Rock and Easy Company were part of GI Robots backstory during WWII, voiced by Maury Sterling. Don't know where this makes the Sgt. Rock film stand as Gunn kinda inferred that all voice cast actors would reprise their roles when it comes to live action films and TV shows.

[brundlefly]

And here I’ll just be comfortably be watching Creature Cammandos which is just silly fun.

Doing the same, but have caught already the wind of the Snyderverse cult to try to ruin my experience

A fine reminder that Harley Quinn returns January 16th.

[knives]

Luca Guadagnino to direct "Sgt. Rock", starring Daniel Craig and written by Justin Kuritzkes

Spoiler from today's newly released episode of Creature Commandos

SpoilerShow

Sgt Rock and Easy Company were part of GI Robots backstory during WWII, voiced by Maury Sterling. Don't know where this makes the Sgt. Rock film stand as Gunn kinda inferred that all voice cast actors would reprise their roles when it comes to live action films and TV shows.

After seeing the episode in question there’s nothing I’d like more than to see Suspiria crazed Guadagnino make a film where robot Sean Gunn gleefully asks if he can kill all the nazis.

[domino harvey]

Gunn confirmed that his Superman film is not an “origin” movie and starts with Superman, Lois Lane, and Lex Luther already knowing each other. That alone gives me more hope than anything I could possibly see in a trailer

[brundlefly]

Teaser for James Gunn's Superman.

[domino harvey]

Looks like Spiderman 3 with a couple films’ worth of characters in it. I like the superhero dog though