Warner shlamozzle
Boy, Warner Bros. is sure as fuck the studio to watch these days. In the wake of The Dark Knight's ass-kickery, they've moved a Harry Potter, re-strategized their comic book movie development, been attacked by a rival picturehouse over Watchmen, and now shitcanned the Bryan Singer Superman franchise in favour of a Letterier-ish Hulk-style reboot.
As the seventh-last surviving male who liked Superman Returns, I'm dismayed, though not much. Still, the prevailing notion that "going dark" is the appropriate treatment of the entirety of DC's character stable is sort of insane. I can see a dark Green Arrow movie or Green Lantern, but Flash? Wonder Woman? Superman? Nuh.
We did a Mamo on the weekend before this latest iteration of the news broke, but which considers some of WB's moves at length, should you choose to listen to it.
Comments
Sounds like Warner Brothers are about to repeat the mistakes that comic book companies made in the 1990's. After the success of comics like Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, it started an era of "grim and gritty" comics. Resulting in a lot of bad comics trying to go dark without understanding why these other comics were such classics.
Superman Returns was quite good and I was really interested in seeing where Bryan Singer took the character next. Too bad it won't happen now, but going dark with Superman and explore his evil side shows that they really don't get the character and sounds like they are more clueless than ever.
Posted by: Matthew Fabb | August 23, 2008 2:09 PM