>The new owners of all things Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are exploring an overhaul of DC Entertainment, multiple sources close to the situation told Variety.
>It’s been less than a week since Discovery closed its $43 billion deal for WarnerMedia, joining one of the largest producers of reality programming with one of the most venerable entertainment brands under the new moniker of Warner Bros. Discovery. David Zaslav, the CEO of the combined companies, and top leadership have been toying with the idea of turning DC into its own solidified content vertical, the sources said.
>Insiders say that Zaslav believes that the success of the merger, one that has left the company highly leveraged, will rest in no small part on unlocking the full potential of the DC Comics universe of characters. Discovery insiders believe that although DC has achieved cinematic success with recent films such as “Aquaman” and “The Batman,” it lacks a coherent creative and brand strategy. Discovery believes that several top-shelf characters such as Superman have been left to languish and need to be revitalized. They also believe that Todd Phillips’ “The Joker” is a shining example of what the DC Brand should be, and focus on copying since now (and also and example in how second-billed characters from the DC library can and should be exploited; Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn was another opportunity, though “Birds of Prey” missed the mark).
>DC has started to figure out ways for its big screen films to inspire more streaming content — recent examples include the HBO Max show “The Peacemaker,” which was a spinoff of “The Suicide Squad,” as well as an upcoming planned series on Colin Farrell’s The Penguin and Gotham City’s police force. But the company believes that DC must do more to grow its approach to comic book fare, including bolstering gaming.
>"They also believe that Todd Phillips’ “The Joker” is a shining example of what the DC Brand should be, and focus on copying since now" >The Joker will now be to the DCU what Iron Man 1 was to the MCU
Considering it made a billion with only 60million budget, of course it should be, retard. The Batman fucking underperformed. Shazam bombed. Birds of Prey, Peacemaker, and The Suicide Squad bombed. Everything DC made except Joker and Aquaman was a flop.
Blake Garcia
The disneyshill is scared
Wyatt Walker
> Discovery insiders believe that although DC has achieved cinematic success with recent films such as “Aquaman” and “The Batman,” it lacks a coherent creative and brand strategy.
No shit.
Honestly, at this point their only real bet to get this off the ground is a straight-up reboot, or to make the movies totally disconnected and not even pretend its a cinematic universe.
Mason Sanchez
>or to make the movies totally disconnected and not even pretend its a cinematic universe. Wasn't this Phillips' plan with Joker and that Luthor movie that never happened?
Yes, but WB told Phillips to fuck off because at the time they wanted more lighthearted movies like Shazam and WW84. For them movies like Joker seemed like a step back into the old Snyder's grittiness.
Lincoln Sanders
Just get rid from that Ezra faggot for fucks sake, easily the worst casting choice Snyder ever made in his entire career.
Christian Taylor
Phillips is a hack, I can't believe they liked the joker
Connor Richardson
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson starring Tom Cruise.
Landon Harris
This would be the third overhaul since man of steel
John Anderson
is wb run by absolute retards? Joker literally is the most profitable film they've ever had at the box office and they said no to more of that and instead greenlighted shit like TSS and Birds of Prey
Isaac Thomas
>“The Batman,” it lacks a coherent creative and brand strategy Pajeets BTFO
>I can't believe they liked the joker Everyone fucking did, retard. Stop thinking your Twitter circlejerk is a reality. Even if they didn't, of course they're going to copy a movie that made a billion dollars and not others that flopped. This is producer busssiness 101.
Colton Sanchez
Here's Todd Phillips talking about DC President, Walter Hamada, giving him a hard time during the production of Joker.
keep reeves batman keep joker scrap literally everything else and start over get raimi to do a superman movie
Noah Myers
That’s not a bad thing. If we get a series of DC films that are all R-rated character studies, I’ll be a happy man.
Jace Reyes
The Nitram director liked Joker and wants to do a similar movie (not necessary about DC). Why doesn't DC hire him, or other directors like that? Didn't he just win in Cannes?
That said, is Joke something you reasonably CAN copy? You can't build a cinematic universe out of stuff like the Joke, the crossover potential isn't there. There is no room to grow, and they don't have enough villains that can carry their own movie as the central figure.
Joker wasn't even really a DC movie. Its just Falling Down/The King of Comedy with face makeup.
Angel Moore
>raimi superman Based
Dylan Turner
>and they don't have enough villains that can carry their own movie as the central figure. Faggot are you drunk or something? DC has the best villains from the superhero industry.
Jack Lewis
Both are pajeets but I’ve seen more pajeets and trannies supporting The Batman Cope and seethe.
Oh, that's fast tracking. Specially the Constantine remake with a black John Constantine.
Camden Peterson
he's submitting a script, doesn't mean it will be approved
Nolan Rogers
>more small budget niche films How is this bad? MCU already has 8 new bombastic eyeball cancer movies per year. Why try to compete directly with that?
Caleb Harris
>or to make the movies totally disconnected and not even pretend its a cinematic universe. As a DC lorefag this hurts, a lot of really good shit in the comics comes from multiverse connected story shenanigans.
Owen Hill
>Joker wasn't even really a DC movie. Its just Falling Down/The King of Comedy with face makeup. I don't get it, what the fuck is Joker taking from according to you faggots? How is Falling Down even similar to Joker outside the "white men goes insane" trope that every single "incel" movie has.
Nathan Ward
>“The Batman,” it lacks a coherent creative and brand strategy I mean I could see how they're pissed off that this successful Batman is ripped out of a wider universe
With just a few tweaks they could have made it so The Batman was a X-Men First Class style Reboot/Prequel movie
No doubt Discovery is having a brain aneurysm looking over how WB green lit fucking Birds of Prey with no Batman or Joker in it and ZERO known villains for normalfags to get butts in seats instead of doing a fucking Superman film
Jackson James
>upcoming planned series on Colin Farrell’s The Penguin and Gotham City’s police force. They did this already?
Cooper Taylor
JJ Abrams is a hack, I’ll give you that However, he’s supposedly directing a lot of movies that “aren’t dead” and it’s pretty clear that he’s full of shit The Half-Life and Portal movies have supposedly been in development for over a decade now
Gavin Diaz
...Magneto and Doom are Marvel, user.
Name one non-Batman villain that can carry a movie where the hero they arch never appears. Lex Luthor, without Superman, is just an asshole businessman. Darkseid is a big grey alien that sits around waiting to find someone else to steal the answers to his math homework. Wonder Woman has no noteworthy villains and you can't convince me otherwise.
Austin Morgan
DC's biggest issue is they hire too many hacks as directors, Snyder, Jenkins, Gunn and let them do what they want.
Notice how Wan, Reeves,Philips all were successful, its cause they actually have talent
Thomas Miller
This but unironically and Reeves is going to bring in his fucking moronic faggot friend JJ Abrams to ruin plent more IP's
Landon Butler
Now I remember that there will also be a Zatana movie. Will it also be black?
Zendaya name has been said several times in relation to the project.
Jason Perez
so dc is just greenlighting random shit with no actual plan?
Henry Cruz
>...Magneto and Doom are Marvel, user. Every single Batman villains is far better than those faggots and you know it. Even Condiment King. Marvelcels are just hilarious
Evan Flores
People like that just repeat what they’ve heard others say what Joker is like despite not seeing any of those movies >oh it’s like king of comedy meets falling down >oh it’s like king of comedy meets taxi driver etc
Noah Sanchez
>Name one non-Batman villain that can carry a movie Zod, Deathstroke, Psycho Pirate
Josiah Parker
>so dc is just greenlighting random shit with no actual plan? Under Hamada yes Remember he greenlit a fucking movie about the Trench (The big hole with fish people from Aquaman) He's a fucking moron and has clearly never picked up a comic in his life.
Hudson Sanders
WB just paid off Ezra's lawsuits, they aren't getting rid of him
>mess with the formula What formula? Walt Hamada is legit retarded.
Samuel Kelly
WB Also reached out to IGN to say the "We put Ezra on pause" story was false
According to Grace Randolph WB are more concerned he's having an unironic mental health issue
Grayson Butler
The MCU formula of everything being colorful, light, safe, and funny.
Leo Stewart
Axed. The Discover CEO straight up says they’ve wasted Superman and it seems he wants something more like the MCU. A controversial black Superman is not the way to do that.
Nathan Thompson
Never letting Zack Snyder near an IP again is a step in the right direction to be honest
Isaac Reyes
There is ZERO chance that shit gets made The Discovery CEO flat out said that WB wasted the character You're either gonna see a Richard Donner reboot with a younger white actor or you're gonna see Cavill come back
Jayden Hill
The story also said WB knew Ezra was having schizo episodes on the set of the Flash movie So it might be a thing where they are being held liable knowing about the instability and not doing anything
