How do we fix DC?
How do we fix DC?
Oliver Diaz
Nolan Baker
Let it simmer for a bit. See what works with the TV shows like Titans and Doom Patrol. Pay Momoa whatever he wants to keep him on contract. Drop Ezra Miller. Actually produce a plan, then act on it.
Lucas Turner
Make each movie really good and unique, don't even worry about crossover shit.
Flash by Sam Raimi with a focus on character and slightly cornier fun. Actually the plot of the Spider-Man PS4 game would be perfect with Miles replaced with Wally and MJ replaced with Iris, so do something like that, Barry has an implied long history as the Flash.
Green Lantern by JJ Abrams, high end visuals and an ensemble cast of Lanterns.
A Blue Beetle show by Edgar Wright based in part on his Ant-Man pitch with Ted swapped for Pym and Jaimie swapped for Lang.
A Supergirl film with hints of Superman.
A few lesser known characters with smaller films by some more unconventional directors.
After several years of rebuilding their reputation, people getting really attached to these versions of the characters and their actors, we finally have a new Justice League film by George Miller, fully revealing Superman, getting normies extremely excited to finally see him and nerds really excited to see the near mythical Miller's JL finally come to fruition. Still not doing any sort of throughline since people will see it as aping the MCU, the characters will then go back to their own franchises.
Aaron Perez
>Flashpoint movie
>GL movie with a retcon that Hal, Guy, and Jon all become Lanterns at the same time and have to work together
>Justice League movie with Starro as the main villain
>Shazam! sequel introducing more magic-based characters and the Monster Society of Evil
>Batman: Year One adaption
Levi King
Stop with the attempt at a live-action cinematic universe. Focus on the strong points of DC, which are animated movies and TV shows. Live-action movies are fine, but keep them restricted to A-list heroes.
Lincoln Bailey
Just do stand alone trilogies. No over arching shit.
Noah Reed
The people who make TV shows and animated movies are completely different sub-companies from the ones that make the films, so you can't really "focus" on them any more than they're already doing.
Brandon Price
>Batman: Year One
No, we’ve seen a fucking Batman adaptation so much by this point fucking mcu spider man it and skip his origin and go to a plot later in his life
Jaxon Thompson
This. Batman movie should include all of the kids of the Bat family.
Eli King
B-But Year One was great
Ryder Mitchell
All but one DCEU movie pulled a profit. Making money isn’t an issue.
Benjamin Miller
Take a decade off, and return to origin stories.
Jack Long
It's fine. Midnight Special and The Accountant make perfectly good examples of why a direct translation of the old heroes of comics have no get modern day equivalents. The Accountant shows why the people complaining about Batman's new guns aren't real people but in fact obvious NPCs and Midnight Special shows why the moral superiority of Superman won't be existing in any story about an alien raised by Midwestern American farmers in a post 9-11 America. The Joker's going to cause the software matrix to lose its shit when for 45 minutes an innocent man fights his radicalization until his "society" turns him into a gun to shoot it's own "society" face off.
So the DETECTIVE COMICS EXTENDED CINEMATIC UNIVERSE is doing just fine. Really.
Aiden Rivera
>Green Lantern by JJ Abrams
Go to hell. You can find actually good director for space adventure, not this hack.
Brandon Wright
My pick was more in the interest of someone who could sell something for normies.
Joseph Reyes
you can't. Their heroes are corny and outdated.
Zachary Edwards
Sell it to Disney
Ethan Peterson
>Green Lantern by JJ Abrams, high end visuals and an ensemble cast of Lanterns.
maybe Adam Strange. Green Lantern seems like too big of a concept for JJ Abrams.
Adam Gutierrez
>Live-action movies are fine, but keep them restricted to A-list heroes.
no, that's retarded. WB and DC need to start taking risks and actually using their lesser known characters or they will die out.
Jacob Hill
Standalone movies that still arent scared to reference other heroes and characters even if they havent shown up.
More shows like Titans and Doom Patrol.
Make Young Justice its own animated universe with multiple spinoffs.
Theatrical animated films.
Jeremiah Sullivan
>More shows like Titans
FUCK BATMAN
Mason Baker
LEAVE DC TO US
Lincoln Stewart
yes user, I like it too
Daniel Reyes
Stand alone Justice League featuring Despro (first act) and Starro and staring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Hawkman, Hawkwoman, Dr Fate. As running theme through entire movie have Aquaman been seen as joke by other superhero members on team, as his only powers to them seems to be that he "Swims and talks to fishes" then in third act have joke of movie "Aquaman" save the day by using his fish powers to defeat "Evil Killer Starfish From Space". As further emphasis on Aquaman running theme, have movie simply end with word 'Fin'. I may or may not have autism.
Noah Butler
We don't. It's absolutely fine as is. It has it's fanbase. It's simply not every film will be for everyone; if you try and make a film (series) for everyone, throwing out tone and gravity, you have a good chance of pleasing no one because it will be lowest common denominator pap. My evidence? See Justice League and it's final box-office, rated far higher than the previous movies amongst critics, and Shazam, which nobody went to see despite being a more comedic and family film than BvS.
John Martin
At this point, the only real hope for the DCEU is Green Lantern Corps. It's going to be centered around Hal and John because they're the most recognizable faces - not enough people know Kyle and Guy is too 'problematic.' If it's a buddy cop movie in space ala Tango & Cash then they might be able to use its popularity to revive the flailing universe. If not then it's probably game over. MoS2 won't be able to cut it not unless they do something drastic like introduce Brainiac and setup BrainiacLex as a precursor to his invasion of Apokolips leading up to Darkseid but nobody has that kind of creative vision
Mason Rivera
Green Lantern Corps staring Chris Pratt as Kyle Rayner and Directed by James Gunn.
Evan Gomez
>Chris Pratt as Kyle Rayner
Chase Lewis
Go back to the perfect vision of Mos and bvs (not trolling)
Benjamin Russell
It's unfixable.
Gabriel Ortiz
You don't
No one wants these shitty characters. That's why their movies bomb, their shows get canceled, their streaming service is losing millions, their video games are nonexistent, and their comics are dead
Brayden Turner
>Focus on the strong points of DC, which are animated movies and TV shows.
Bentley Flores
>Flash by Sam Raimi
>Flash is gonna call Grodd a nigger ape
Eli Powell
Hi ladderbro
Wyatt Scott
Hi tommy
Xavier Parker
Shazam is way better than Bvs lmao
Ethan Gonzalez
Ladderbro, I know it’s hard for you to admit, but DC has always reigned in TV shows and anything animated. Guarantee you will hear more people talking about Gotham and Justice League than Agent Carter or Avengers Assemble.
Gavin Sanchez
>Guy is too 'problematic.'
I hate this meme. Lobo is the fucking master of “problematic” and he still showed up in Krypton.
Justin Myers
Fire (lynch) Didio
Asher Stewart
I heard the Booster Gold movie was greenlighted. Is it true?
Kevin Taylor
>my point
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>your head
That subjective statement aside, the point is that it was a critical success yet only satisfactory financially, to the critical bombing of previous DCU movies that still made bank. Shazam got a 90-fucking-% Certified Fresh and couldn't even break close to 400m while Aquachad got a grudging 65% and yet made over a billion.
Isaiah Edwards
Stop hiring Snyder, Wheson, and Ayer, make superman lighter with dark moments, and makr batman darker with light moments.
Batman and Superman contrast. Clark does what he does because he wants to help. Bruce does what he does because he wants to punish.
Bruce has a sad life with joyful moments.
Clark has a good life with Dark turns.
Clark is Justice.
Bruce is Vengence.
Clark supports the system and works with police and military.
Bruce works in the shadows with Jim Gordon, while State police and government officials await to issue his arrest warrent.
Superman is a public figure who takes photos with Kids.
Batman is still an urban legend who's only photos consist of artist sketches and blurry cctv footage.
BVS blurred the lines waaaaaaay too much. The zod killing snap wasn't awful, and could have been powerful, but it felt pointless amongst the CITY WIDE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
Batman as an aggressive lunatic would make sense. IF JOKER WASN'T ALIVE.
The martha scene would have been perfect. IF IT SHOWED HOW MENTALLY FUCKED BATMAN IS INSTEAD OF JUST "m-m-maAaAaaaArRtThHAAaAAaaaaaAa!"
Jason Morgan
Based on the last few films, and DC's streaming service having not-shit shows (after Titans). I'd like to be an optimist and say that DC is slowly repairing itself. All they have to do is NOT fall for the cinematic universe meme, and NOT hire hack directors.
Carson Gomez
While I’m not straight putting forward the idea of imitation as the only solution, arguably the MCU’s success was less about complete adaptation from the comics and more about great casting and good direction. I think DC movies have good tone, ok stories, decent direction, but shit tier quality casting. Outside of momoa none of these people make good comic book characters, even if they make good movie characters. I think bad casting has hurt them the most. Also attempting to be too serious and not campy enough has brought them away from family friendly movies and that is only going to hurt sales.
Jose Miller
Nope. Greg Berlanti had a screenplay on his hands, but the movie wasn't greenlighted yet. Maybe DC would say something on Comic Con..