While Marvel pushes on with its TV and movies you have to wonder just wtf Warner are doing? Affleck made a good Batman and if you have the biggest comic characters such as Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman and Aquaman not to mention "Shazam" just how is it the movie franchises are so bloody messed up?
Cyborg is a much more interesting character in the Doom Patrol TV series and the other TV heroes established a fan base so why are the actors who created that buzz and fan following actually playing the characters in the movies? The Flash -Ezra Miller is so scandal covered by now but he keeps studio support while Grant Gustin who plays Flash on the TV series is not just in an established TV series that had its own small scale Crisis on Infinite Earths but he has not tried to assault anyone, break into any properties or...well not done anything Miller has.
I seriously gave up on DC as a comic company when every year it did a reboot and each reboot has gotten worse. Oh, the "strong rumour" that Jim Lee is out and may be back at Marvel next year...CBO reported on this very same "inside strong source" report of Lee going three years ago and I mentioned then that I ran a similar story two years before.
These days the comics are not action and adventure stories made to draw in fans but more "We HAVE to tick the right virtue signalling boxes!" -Marvel has just given up and produces some dire comics by people who have no idea how to write BUT they tick those right virtue signalling boxes.
Until they introduced Harry ***** Styles as Eros to make an already tedious movie (The Eternals) even worse things were going fine. Normally I will watch a Marvel movie 2-3 times but I have placed The Eternals at the back of the shelf because I have no intention of watching it for a VERY long time.
One other problem with Marvel and DC themed movies is that they kill off good villains as though that's it "We have no idea how to use them again!" Andy Serkis is a perfect example of having a very good actor play a villain (Klaw) and then kill him off (in Black Panther) but do it off screen so he just turns up as a corpse -WTF???
Really, some arses need to be slapped but do you know what? Unimaginative people put in charge and who interfere in the movie side of things...they'll keep screwing up and collecting their pay cheques and won't give a toss what fans want. "Fans will see and buy what we tell them to!"
And the fans bend over and take it.
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/08/aquaman-2-shazam-2-release-dates-pushed-warner-bros-1234755287/
Warner Bros. is mixing up the DC release calendar once again.
After the “Aquaman” sequel was pushed back from December 16, 2022 to March 17, 2023, the DC installment is getting shifted once more to December 25, 2023. That’s the same release window as its initial December 2022 premiere date, following the 2018 holiday debut of the first film.
Now in the DC shuffle, “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” will take over the vacant “Aquaman 2” premiere date, this time delayed until March 17, 2023, after being first announced to open on December 16 of this year (the original “Aquaman” sequel date).
In addition to the DC game of musical chairs, two HBO Max titles are now getting theatrical premieres: “House Party” is set for December 9, 2022, while “Evil Dead Rise” will open on April 21, 2023. Upcoming Warner Bros. titles also now include “The Nun 2,” as part of “The Conjuring” franchise, set for September 8, 2023, along with Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot” being pushed to a TBD date in 2023 (its original release was set for April 21, 2023).
An untitled “Warner Bros.” event film is also slated for February 10, 2023, on Super Bowl weekend.
With “Batgirl” confirmed to be shelved indefinitely after originally being set for an HBO Max release and the future of the DCU hinging on “The Flash” despite lead star Ezra Miller’s multiple arrests and abuse allegations, it seems that the release calendar reflects the imbalance and push for a Kevin Feige-like leader to oversee all of DC.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav earlier clarified during the company’s second-quarter 2022 earnings call that axing “Batgirl” was part of a plan to “bring Warner back and produce great high-quality films” with a mission to “protect the DC brand.”
“We have some great DC films coming up: ‘Black Adam,’ ‘Shazam!,’ and ‘Flash.’ We’re working on all of those. We’ve seen them, and we think they’re terrific, and that we can make them even better,” Zaslav said.
Virtue is overrated.
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