Justice League vs. The Avengers

[katikat]

So, I'm not sure if you noticed - or if you are even interested, that is - but WB/DC's now officially working on a Justice League movie. And, you know, it's totally not because Marvel reaped a huge amount of money with The Avengers, no, of course not - a complete BS, as this site notes: link. They had a JL movie planned for 2008 - starring Adrien Brody, among others - but they chickened out, they didn't have the balls to risk it. Marvel did and it paid off for them. And I'm really miffed that they now try to pretend that Marvel didn't smooth out the way for them, that Marvel didn't do the hard job, took risks, proved that it could actually work.

Though, seriously, I doubt that a JL movie without a proper prep work could work - Green Lantern flopped, Wonder Woman TV show flopped, Wonder Woman and Flash movies have been in development for years now and zilch - WB/DC has no legs to stand on and they plan to make an ensemble movie? All their movies are set in their own universes, they are not connected. So, they will finish Nolan's Batman trilogy and then use a different Batman in the JL movie? Won't that confuse people? Or will they use Christian Bale? But Bale's Batman is realistic, there are no super powers there. And they will suddenly drop someone like Green Lantern in his life?

The Avengers paid off because Marvel had a long-term plan, this is simply a knee-jerk reaction, WB/DC is afraid to be left in the dust by Marvel. As much as I would like to see a JL movie, this is definitely not the way to go, IMHO.

Comments

[lunchee]

I agree with you whole heartedly: no way could avengers have been so successful without all the planning that went into making a big ensemble movie work. I knew nothing about the Avengers before marvel starting bringing out the movies, and in the same way I know nothing about the Justice League, so if they do make a movie of them without any character establishing movies (that are actually any good) I doubt they'd be making anywhere near the amount of money Marvel has on their venture.

And hell yeah, they suck balls for not acknowledging the fact that they are going through with the project thanks to the success of the whole Avengers franchise. Shame on them!

[katikat]

Yeah, the comic book nerds on CBM.com are convinced that a prep work for Justice League isn't needed because everyone knows Wonder Woman etc. Well, I for one, don't. I know that she's an Amazon but that's it. I can't imagine them introducing so many characters in one movie successfully :(

[lunchee]

That's just silly, nerds on CBM.com!!! They should well know that comic book verses have like, ten million origin stories and alternate universe, how are we mere mortals going to be able to know which wonder woman it is?? And sure, you don't NEED a movie for everyone in JL, but you'd get more profits that way, and it would probably suck way less.

I'm with you, I would bail out so fast if I had to be introduced to ten equally important main characters :\