“Captain America: Civil War” is off to the races, and already looks like it’s going to be another billion dollar baby for Marvel, while over at Warner Bros., rumors continue to swirl about the state of their DC Comics universe. Heading into the weekend, the chatter was that James Wan was thinking of leaving “Aquaman,” while the studio was being more hands-on with Zack Snyder, his “Justice League” movie, and the overall vision he put together for the forthcoming slate of DC films. Well, Wan himself has debunked the “Aquaman” talk, slyly taking to Twitter and sending out an image of himself beneath a gigantic wall mural of the superhero. But just as one rumor is squashed, another pops up.
According to Birth Movies Death — which dished the “Aquaman” news, so perhaps take it with a grain of salt — the script for Ben Affleck‘s standalone Batman movie, which he co-wrote with Geoff Johns, will feature most of Batman’s classic villains. It would seem that nobody has learned the lesson of “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice,” that simply stuffing your movie with characters doesn’t equate to an epic cinematic experience. The educated guess here is that rather than re-introducing classic baddies, they’ll already exist in the world of the older, more grumpy Bruce Wayne, which I suppose makes sense, and that most of them will be cameo appearances that set the stage for these characters to appear in future movies.
So, I get it, but there is something to be said about one hero, one villain, and a simple storyline that lets them throw down. After ‘Dawn Of Justice,’ ‘Civil,’ and two-part “Justice League” and “Avengers: Infinity War” movies, will we really need yet another movie crammed to the gills with characters? Maybe I’m old-fashioned.
In “duh, obviously news,” Showbiz 411 reports that Jeremy Irons will reprise his role as Alfred in “Justice League.” Frankly, it would more newsworthy if he wasn’t in the movie.
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oh good golly, please tell me Affleck has watched the loads of brilliant animated DC movies that have come out in the last 6-7 years to get an idea of how his movie should be made. I cannot get how DC is so good at making mature animated movies and cannot make a half way decent live movie.
Saw B vs S this weekend and what a mess. I hardly blame the actors at all and there is some good stuff in that movie, but if you haven’t any point of reference to draw from that movie would leave you confused… like it did my wife. You shouldn’t be asking ‘why did Batman and Superman not like each other’ after leaving a movie that is built upon them facing off vs each other. Simply poor story telling ruined what could have been a very good movie IMO.
The thing is, it could “feature” any number of familiar faces from Batman’s rogues gallery without many problems but the bigger issue is whether they’ll take the more sensible stance and use only one of said rogues to focus the central plot around.