That's a problem for like 6-8 years down the road at least. Maybe they'll get Galactus' rights back or, who knows, they purchase X-Men's rights and do Avengers Vs. X-Men. Or they do something more personal and contained like Civil War.
At this point, Marvel would really do something like Civil War or X-Men Vs Avengers. Avengers popularity is on the level of the X-Men at this point so a cinematic clash between the two groups would be a blockbuster the film goers would die to see.
The debacle that was Green Lantern - which could have been, should have been, and really needed to be better - is infecting their ability to do anything else at the moment. Green Lantern is my favorite comic mythos and I'm not sure how they should handle it, but something needs to be done. I liked Ryan Reynolds and blame the editing/smashing of two storylines into one for what went wrong. But they need to convince general audiences that Green Lantern is cool. I think the best way to do that is to make other single stories like Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Flash - make them well. Then tackle Green Lantern again and get people excited for the shared universe.
With that said, I really don't like the idea of opening with the Justice League and then going backwards to single movies.
The Avengers did so well only because of the hype that grew due to having 4 films lead up to that point. It makes much more business sense to wait till the single movies have led up to a single Justice League film that can pull in large Avenger like numbers.
They went with the safe route using Reynolds when they should have chosen a better actor that fits the character of Hal Jordan. Reynolds was more Deadpool than Jordan. While Bale wasn't a good Batman, he was a good Bruce Wayne and a good actor for the most part. Marvel chose well with most of their leading cast members except maybe Norton as Bruce Banner, but even then Norton was still better than Reynolds at his role.
However, the new Superman flick's cast looks great. Solid actors that should carry this movie. At this point, Warner Brothers should just license their DC properties to Marvel because Marvel studios would actually put these characters on the big screens better than WB. After seeing Thor, Captain America, and Avengers, yes they would put out good films for Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and JLA. They just need a good writer and some comic writers that's well versed in the history of these characters. But seeing as they got their own properties, they may not even want these DC characters unless they figure the license deal is going to be very profitable.
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Last edited by WhiteWitchKing on Oct 8th, 2012 at 02:43 AM
I disagree that Reynolds in anyway hurt the GL movie. That was the fault of two storylines that were mashed together, with neither one given a clear focus. That and horrible horrible editing. Some scene sequences made no sense.
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