"JLA movie getting of the ground"
http://blastr.com/2012/06/that-justice-league-movie.php

"Hot scribe pushing 'Justice League' at Warner Bros."
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118055082


I get the feeling DC will, if they try and repeat Marvel's success with the Avengers they will surely screw this up.

Why not try a slow build, get their sea legs so to speak.

The Batman franchise is ready for a reboot after this current film, and Superman may or may not work, so why not try out a "World's Finest" film first?

Just start with Superman and Batman teaming up and then go from there, maybe the next Batman film series should be like Brave and the Bold, four or more films leading to a JLA film. Starting with B&B: The World's Finest.

A few solid Team-up movies with one or two of the others, all leading to a full JLA team up. You could really make the thing cost effective by overlapping some of the shooting schedules.

The characters who get the best responses then get solo films, and more screen time in the JLA films. The trick would be one big story that starts out as several great stand-alone team up stories, that all build up to a huge threat, like all the villains from the team-up films all banning together to form the Legion of Doom. And then you make the JLA film the big pay-off with tons of fight scenes and gratuitous moments. Even bigger than the Avengers.

The Avengers movie proved that audiences are desperate for groupthink entertainment, so it may happen. The test will be if Gangster Squad tanks.

They could just make mini promotional movies. One of the "hottest" trends in the new media environment is to create a trailer that sends nerglingers and media outlets into an orgasmic froth. Why not produce little two-minute films (using the same type of budget used to produce trailers) to introduce the characters, shot at the same time as the movie, and released once every week in the month or so before the movie premiere? This way you avoid a 40-minute "Getting to know ya" intro to the JLA movie, and bypass a five-year franchise rollout.

That may be the single funniest thing you've said on this whole subject. The studio execs are waiting on pins and needles for the box office from Gangster Squad before deciding on a JLA flick? Gangster Squad?

Mike

The supposedly "hot" writer who is currently attached to the JLA project wrote Gangster Squad, doofus.

Some might argue that the five year build up was largely responsible for the movie's success. The movie itself was fun, but obviously not the greatest movie ever made. Much of the anticipation was generated over time, an I would argue that the Avengers had the benefit of being not only a new movie but also a sequel to not just one but the sequel to four other movies, with each of these movies all containing previews.

Taking these elements out of the equation would certainly not help.

No argument about it.

If Green Lantern had've been Iron Man, DC could've built slowly. Instead, Green Lantern was...y'know...that piece of unwatchable, money-burning garbage.

If you're going to make a superhero team movie in the shadow of The Avengers, it's probably not a great idea to use the exact tactics it used. You don't want to position yourself as Pepsi next to its Coke...You want to make a movie that says to the audience, "Oh, did that Avengers movie ever come out? I didn't notice."

Better to risk the comparisons to Avengers than being a huge monetary failure. And besides, the way to inoculate a film against comparisons? Make a better film.

Without the long build-up you don't get the excitement. And unless you make the greatest film ever, you end up with a huge budget, huge expectations and average ticket sales, or John Carter II.

They don't have to take the same route. Like I said above I think they should start with a great Batman Superman movie first, that might be enough to beat the avengers anyway, if it's done on a similar level as the Chris Reeve Superman and the Nolan Batman.

The general public is probably just as familiar with if not more familiar with both supporting casts than they are the rest of the JLA anyway. So meeting of these two Heroes and their cats is possibly just as huge an undertaking if not more so than The Avengers anyway.

Yes, and everybody knows that studios simply abandon multi-million dollar projects rather than just replace a writer. Hollywood is notorious for how highly it values writers and would never dream of ever dropping one from a project. No, the project itself must entirely be abandoned rather than commit the vile sin of paying one writer to go away and getting someone else for the job.

Sweet mary, Allen, could you at least think for 5 seconds before you post?

Mike