Those numbers are realistic but the list of wrong headed thinking is huge
Let me begin
Ww. It's pretty obvious that marvel is directly putting its comics into film format while Warner is taking bits and pieces of its best comics and making films that exist in their own film verse
Nolan's batman was very unbatman like in a lot of ways and some parts of the trilogy are considered film classics, not superhero film classics, just plain film classics
Put Christian bale next to Chris Evans and hell look like a twig. Comic batman is huge, he's afflecksvrange. Visually
Gal gadot is Israeli (my peeps) she looks Mediterranean and she was likely chosen to play the mix of diplomat to mans world and warrior, regard
Less of physique. The actresses she beat out,like Olga kuryelenko, we're all similar in bod.y type. They want a strong woman in Character, like bale batman who d
Idnt look like Morrison batman but nailed batmans obssession. ,ability to intimidate and frankly, his courage.
In comics its easy to forget batman is a frail human being who can die by bullet fighting side by side with gods and against them. Bale managed to look human and unstoppable at the same time
If gadot doesn't suck, it will be the same.
Who cares about objectivity in matters of taste and preference. I love vijay jay, I'm not giving the other option a try because I'm upholding a virtuous moral standard. Plus, I want both dc and mu to keep cranking out equally good material (albeit I want my fanboy gave to be the peoples champ in superman and not hulk or Thor)
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Think people are missing the general point. Marvel has set up a machine in which you're buying a brand. You go
To a Thor film and you like it because, even if thorbisnt your favorite character, you're watchingg a screen universe you're invested in.
Dc is trying to do that superficially but dc films and characters will do better as stand alone films. Dc characters are simply more iconic and it's easier to get invested in flashes world, or wonder womans, without needing the rest of the dcu. That's not a bad thing. If they pull off green lantern, which I think they can, I'm sure some people could watch gl and happily enjoy gls universe without even caring about supermans existence
Last point
I don't think anyone has consider.eld that every character that doesvavstand alone in marvel is landing between 400-500 worldwide,
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Nearly a decades worth of world building. Even iron man only snagged 375 his first time out before he became a billion dollar guarantee
Superman nearly cracked 700 million in his reboot. No one character has come close to that and despite divided opinion, which I think was intentional, everyone wants to see what happens next. Mos killed at the box office because it was a hero films first time out and in this day and age where the wow factor has diminished, that's very very impressive and even though the film fails at the end, it is great if you take separate scenes, themes etc... It's essentially a great film with an anti climactic finish
Now couple that with a more comic book like batman after the last trilogy made well over 2.5 billion dollars or so
Add in that we've NEVER seen any wonder woman on screen EVER
And there is a chance the film itselF might Be good. If nothing is way out of place, like afflecksvrange acting or terrible dialogue (I trust the writers and effects above all) I think the movie will be very good, though not great, as it tries to set up a dcu. It will likely have huge wow moments and solid writing coupled with batman, superman and ww on screen for the first time with some likely surprises and villains
If nothing is awful, it will be a movie that borders on great but leaves you wanting more, and the good scenes will be epic. It has an outside chance of being epic, with just as much chance of being awful. Once I see a clip with afflecksvrange as batman I'll know, same with ww
Surprise prediction.....eisenberg will kill it
He will be a terrifying Luther who will make you root for him, then do evil things that make you question if you should