So Marvel's releasing a Thor movie in 2010 and a Cap movie in 2011, what are you doing DC?
Why, a Suicide Squad movie, of course. What the fuck, DC. I realize Marvel started off with Blade, but then they ramped up the star status and moved on to recgonizable names like X-Men, and later Spider-Man. At this point in the game, they're doing A-List (to us comic nerds) heroes like Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America. If things go as planned for them, they should have an Avengers movie out just a few months after Cap's movie.
And what about you, DC? What have you done? Batman Begins was amazing, and The Dark Knight has net you an Oscar, something I doubt Marvel will ever manage with their main superheroes unless they do a direct adaptation of one of their comic mini-series. No, don't look at Constantine. That's Vertigo. And take your eyes off Watchmen. You don't get to lay claim to it now that its a hit when you wouldn't let Alan Moore use the Charlton characters when he originally wrote it. Your only claims to fame are Superman Returns, which is analagous to Fantastic Four (except IT got a sequel), and Catwoman, which....it speaks for itself.
This is inexcusable. Warner's is one of the biggest movie companies there is. You should've had five times as many movies by now, most of which should've been a success financially and at least half of them critically.
Marvel deserves to kick your ass. They're getting franchises off the ground that should be off the ground. Even your attempts piss me off.
Jonah Hex? He's cool and all, but c'mon, why is he being done before even a hero like the Atom or Hawkman?
Supermax remains the most idiotic idea since Smallville. So you're going to make a movie about Green Arrow, featuring a whole bunch of DC villains, but NOBODY'S going to wear costumes. ....What. The. Fuck. Have you never heard of Name Recognition? Nobody knows who the fuck Green Arrow is, and you're going to START with a movie like this? And costume-less villains? C'mon, how many villains does the average public know about that aren't Batman villains? You're going to put Killer Frost, Heatwave, and Livewire in there, but without costumes. Absolutely brilliant. This would barely make a decent comic book.
And now, Suicide Squad. Another kick to the balls.
After Batman Begins, Superman should've gotten a reboot, but we instead we got Superman 2.5 taking place in a franchise that was twenty years old. Comics are rarely insane enough to try something like this.
You also own Wonder Woman. Y'know, the most well-known superheroine in comics. There are so many different ways you could use this character, from a World War II period film to a contemporary "Year One" tale. (You could've even gone with a stereotypical feminist film, if you wanted to be lazy, though the goal is to make GOOD movies so I wouldn't advise it.)
Green Lantern's got a release date, but how it managed to get on the slate before you ironed out the Superman and Wonder Woman franchises boggles my mind. Besides that...you've got superhero writer extraordinaire Geoff Johns creating some of the most amazing work in comic books on Green Lantern...and you didn't approach him to write the screenplay for this movie?! Who was the person who okay'd that? Don't get me wrong, there's still a chance this could be a great movie...but you gave up a slam dunk for a free throw. The writers might be gold at them, or they might be Shaq. Good luck.
Meanwhile Marvel's got the directors of movies actually talking to the writers that are working on the same characters in the comics. Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada is in what's going on in the Thor movie. Invincible Iron Man writer Matt Fraction was called in for consulting on the Iron Man 2 film. When you go to a Marvel panel at a convention, you get a sense that if you were to ask their EIC a question related to the movies or the cartoons, they might actually be able to tell you something. Meanwhile at a DC panel one of the first things they make clear is that they don't have any say on what goes on in the movies. Massive fail.
The Flash movie should've been released no more than 90 days after the Green Lantern movie to show how they're almost like "brother" superheroes. Ryan Reynolds would make a perfect Wally West. Instead he's off playing Deadpool in Wolverine: Origins.
Aquaman. Captain Marvel. Justice League of America (with J'onn as the focal character after you've already made a movie for Bats, Supes, WW, GL and Flash...and maybe Aquaman). Justice Society of America. Metal Men. The Atom. Hawkman. Green Arrow. Teen Titans. The list of heroes you can make stories about is endless.
There are even comics you could easily use as storyboards. DC's got a whole line of "Year One" comics begging to be adapted into movies.
But we get Suicide Squad. DC, you suck. :P
And what about you, DC? What have you done? Batman Begins was amazing, and The Dark Knight has net you an Oscar, something I doubt Marvel will ever manage with their main superheroes unless they do a direct adaptation of one of their comic mini-series. No, don't look at Constantine. That's Vertigo. And take your eyes off Watchmen. You don't get to lay claim to it now that its a hit when you wouldn't let Alan Moore use the Charlton characters when he originally wrote it. Your only claims to fame are Superman Returns, which is analagous to Fantastic Four (except IT got a sequel), and Catwoman, which....it speaks for itself.
This is inexcusable. Warner's is one of the biggest movie companies there is. You should've had five times as many movies by now, most of which should've been a success financially and at least half of them critically.
Marvel deserves to kick your ass. They're getting franchises off the ground that should be off the ground. Even your attempts piss me off.
Jonah Hex? He's cool and all, but c'mon, why is he being done before even a hero like the Atom or Hawkman?
Supermax remains the most idiotic idea since Smallville. So you're going to make a movie about Green Arrow, featuring a whole bunch of DC villains, but NOBODY'S going to wear costumes. ....What. The. Fuck. Have you never heard of Name Recognition? Nobody knows who the fuck Green Arrow is, and you're going to START with a movie like this? And costume-less villains? C'mon, how many villains does the average public know about that aren't Batman villains? You're going to put Killer Frost, Heatwave, and Livewire in there, but without costumes. Absolutely brilliant. This would barely make a decent comic book.
And now, Suicide Squad. Another kick to the balls.
After Batman Begins, Superman should've gotten a reboot, but we instead we got Superman 2.5 taking place in a franchise that was twenty years old. Comics are rarely insane enough to try something like this.
You also own Wonder Woman. Y'know, the most well-known superheroine in comics. There are so many different ways you could use this character, from a World War II period film to a contemporary "Year One" tale. (You could've even gone with a stereotypical feminist film, if you wanted to be lazy, though the goal is to make GOOD movies so I wouldn't advise it.)
Green Lantern's got a release date, but how it managed to get on the slate before you ironed out the Superman and Wonder Woman franchises boggles my mind. Besides that...you've got superhero writer extraordinaire Geoff Johns creating some of the most amazing work in comic books on Green Lantern...and you didn't approach him to write the screenplay for this movie?! Who was the person who okay'd that? Don't get me wrong, there's still a chance this could be a great movie...but you gave up a slam dunk for a free throw. The writers might be gold at them, or they might be Shaq. Good luck.
Meanwhile Marvel's got the directors of movies actually talking to the writers that are working on the same characters in the comics. Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada is in what's going on in the Thor movie. Invincible Iron Man writer Matt Fraction was called in for consulting on the Iron Man 2 film. When you go to a Marvel panel at a convention, you get a sense that if you were to ask their EIC a question related to the movies or the cartoons, they might actually be able to tell you something. Meanwhile at a DC panel one of the first things they make clear is that they don't have any say on what goes on in the movies. Massive fail.
The Flash movie should've been released no more than 90 days after the Green Lantern movie to show how they're almost like "brother" superheroes. Ryan Reynolds would make a perfect Wally West. Instead he's off playing Deadpool in Wolverine: Origins.
Aquaman. Captain Marvel. Justice League of America (with J'onn as the focal character after you've already made a movie for Bats, Supes, WW, GL and Flash...and maybe Aquaman). Justice Society of America. Metal Men. The Atom. Hawkman. Green Arrow. Teen Titans. The list of heroes you can make stories about is endless.
There are even comics you could easily use as storyboards. DC's got a whole line of "Year One" comics begging to be adapted into movies.
But we get Suicide Squad. DC, you suck. :P
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