How do we save DC from WB?

We don't. We burn down all the media conglomerates and try to move past capitalism.

bankrupt it

we're already doing a good job by having all of their movies bomb this year we just need to keep it up and make sure to not subscribe to their shitty $20 a month streaming service

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Unverified "I heard so-and-so say...." post. I'm not trusting a word he says.

What are some others

Not a movie, but that episode of The Simpsons with Dustin Hoffman as Lisa's substitute teacher was made because James L. Brooks had an idea that was "an episode about Lisa that ends with someone giving her a letter that says 'You are Lisa Simpson.' Write a script about that and don't forget my plotting credit."

That episode is considered a classic, but it only happened because a producer had an idea for one pretentious scene with no context to it and told the writers to come up with a script that included it.

>In 1977, the senior execs at 20th Century Fox made an astonishingly short-sighted decision. They signed over all product merchandising rights for any and all Star Wars films to George Lucas - in exchange for a mere $20,000 cut in Lucas' studio paycheck. The combined revenue from merchandising is estimated to have exceeded three billion dollars, and continues to grow annually, making it the most lucrative deal ever struck between an individual and a corporate studio in entertainment history.

I guess that one's less a stupid movie idea and more having no idea how to negotiate but man old Georgie boy lucked the fuck out.

>executives are retarded, movies should have even bigger committees to be made
cringe

>changing the entire meaning of the post you're replying to in a strawman greentext summary, so you can reply with "cringe".
What's your endgame, user? Did you want a (you)? Well here you go big boy, fresh off the grill. You earned it!

Get Disney to buy DC.

Stop giving them your money.

Well, I suppose it all worked out in the end.

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Not an executive thing but Will Smith infamously chose to star in Wild Wild West over the Matrix. The former is considered one of the worst films of his career, but I suppose you have no way of knowing at the time.

Didn’t a similar thing happen with Sean Connery?

Wild WildWest is a great movie. I’ll never get the hate

Happened twice to Connery to the point where he said fuck it and signed on to the next project offered to him immediately

and that's how he got LxG

>How do we save DC from WB?
sell it to Disney

Disney passed on both Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter because executives "didn't see the appeal". The former went to New Line, the latter went to WB, both companies made a fortune off of them and raked in both money and Oscars. Disney decided to make up for their mistake by buying the rights to the first fantasy literature epic with franchise potential they could get their hands on.

It was Narnia. They shat out two terrible movies and then sold the license to Fox, who shat out only one more terrible movie.

Hang on can we talk about the Superman in the airforce idea? I could actually see that working

>Superman being a military guy explains his uptight demeanor
>His constant military discipline is how he can manage holding human objects without crushing them
>His love for red white and blue
>Wants to fight but wants to make it fair so he uses human technology to fly and fight in a jet
>Gets to feel normal as he flies
>Tragedy happens
>Lois Lane is doing a report on the problem
>Has to give up the military due to cooersion or just mental instability
>Finds out the person sabotaging him is Mr Mxyzptlk
>Fights him
>Starts losing
>His old airforce squadren buddies show up to blast Mxyzptlk
>Finds his need to do good as Superman and while he can walk among the humans he is not one. He is a God and he can help more people this way than in the Airforce.

BATman not Superman

Read closer

Put in a giant spider and we've got us a billion dollar movie.

>More Batwank
It's just one of those days....

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That's common practice, though.

The Terminator franchise was born of James Cameron having a nightmare in which he was chased by a robot skeleton.

I mean, at the time

Wild Wild West

>Based on a popular TV show.
>Mainstream-appealing buddy cop action/comedy.
>Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld high off the box office success of Men In Black.

Whereas The Matrix

>High-concept sci-fi, one of the most flop-prone genres
>Unknown directors whose biggest movie so far was lesbian softcore
>Weird mish-mash of counter-culture concepts and aesthetics

To any reasonable guesser, Wild Wild West would be the horse to bet on.

The reason the mcu films succeed was bc Marvel made its first 5 films on its own. You had the actual comics company calling the shots. That served as a proof of concept when Disney bought them and allowed Fiege to maintain control with Disney serving as just the money man.

WB has always had DC and bc of that there's never been any proof of concept besides "batman works. Let's make everything like batman". Film studio executives are their own worst enemy.