Justice League . . . Assemble!


10/18/12 05:50pm
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Hot on the heels of a major court decision allowing Warner Brothers to retain their rights to Superman, the company has announced that it is finally moving forward with its long-promised Justice League film, the L.A. Times is announcing.  Filming is tentatively set to begin next year, with a 2015 release date.  Opposite to the way Marvel Studios assembled their Avengers franchise – with individual characters coming together in an ensemble team film – Warner Brothers will START the franchise with their Justice League film, and then spin individual characters off into their own movies (meaning the most recent Christopher Nolan “Batman” trilogy and the upcoming “Man of Steel” film are unlikely to be part of this new continuity).

What do you think of this news?  Excited to finally be able to see Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and all the others fighting side by side?  Or wary that Warner Brothers is pushing ahead a film that currently has no set script, director, or actors?  Post below and let us know!

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  • critterfur

    I don’t quite think this formula is going to work. Marvel took the time to patiently set up the film version of their comic-book universe, subtly (and not so subtly) linking the continuities of their various characters together in a way that didn’t feel forced. As happened in the comics, the individual characters came first before the team concept; you had time to learn a character’s motivations, strengths and weaknesses, so that by the time you dropped them into a situation where they were playing off against other personality types, it was much more interesting (and more fun). I think DC is really jumping the gun here…they want the big bucks that the Avengers made, but aren’t taking into account the fact that one of the probable reasons for that movie having such a large audience was that it was actually the combined audiences of Iron Man fans, Hulk fans, Thor fans, etc. There’s nothing to suggest that the formula would work the other way around. Maybe curious people will turn out to see the mix of characters (which even non-comic-book readers know of) but I doubt it will get the same critical acclaim that Avengers did, simply because the emotional underpinnings won’t be there.

    • http://www.facebook.com/john.finck.73 John Finck

      I think you have it mostly right, but the ‘wildcard’ with the DC characters is the universal recognition/appeal of their “BIG TWO”. Superman and Batman are iconic personas of a magnitude beyond even the biggest Marvel heroes. It’s not that they are “better”, just BIGGER. Plus, between Bruce and Clark, they have 13 films worth of ‘ground work’ to draw on. True, many of those films they will avoid like the plague, but still, the point remains; there is a built-in audience that MIGHT (might, mind you) allow DC to get away without rolling out individual movies for each JLA member. And the one thing they could not withstand is another Green Lantern fiasco.