DC/Warner v. Marvel/Disney? Sony Really Got Shafted This Week

DC/Warner v. Marvel/Disney? Sony Really Got Shafted This Week

Spinning out of Warner Brother's announced DC slate, DC plays the proverbial Lucy to Sony's Charlie Brown in this cinematic football gag.

Editorial Opinion
By niceguyeddie - Oct 18, 2014 12:10 PM EST
Filed Under: DC Comics

Mountain View

Much has been made of the great battle between Marvel Studios and Warner/DC over the hearts and minds (...and dollars) of fanboys and the rest of the viewing public.  When Warner Brothers so unceremoniously  released their DC movie slate for the next five years people noted a few things. Among them, they noted that DC will likely beat Marvel/Disney to the first solo female superhero film with Wonder Woman announced for June of 2017. With  recent reports that the MCU's phase three will not end where we all assumed it would, people pointed out that if Justice League 2's (June 2019) main baddie does turn out to be Darkseid as it is rumored, he may get the front and center treatment before Thanos can truly menace Earth's Mightiest in the MCU's much speculated all-franchise event (Infinity Gauntlet). Yes of course Thanos appeared a long time ago in The Avengers and had an arguably less than meaty role (screen time-wise) in Guardians Of The Galaxy but unless the mad titan has a larger presence in the Guardian's sequel this will likely be the case.

The story however that seems to have eluded most discussion thread's that I creepily lurked in is the great blow that has been dealt to Sony's fragilely budding Spiderverse. Oh yes, people. Shots have been fired albeit with all the noise of a silenced pistol. Sony in an attempt to build their own cinematic universe,had already announced their supervillain ensemble The Sinister Six for a November 2016 release. Then with Warner's recent game plan announcement, it was revealed that their rumored Suicide Squad film is slated for August 2016. That's roughly 3 months before Sinister Six. As many may have observed, in cases where where movies with similar premises/content are released within relatively close proximity to each other, the second film to be released most often gets less attention (see Olympus Has Fallen v. White House Down).

This is a blow that the struggling Sony can nary afford with their flagship superhero franchise already on shaky ground much less it's respective spin-offs. The often reliable Devin Faraci of Badass Digest has apparently been hearing from sources that "Venom is functionally dead again". He also reports of whispers about a possible Spider-Man "soft reboot" in the form of inclusion in said Sinister Six picture. It's currently unknown whether a rumored connection to Marvel Studios' MCU can or will ever come to pass much less if the help is quantifiable but with everything else to lose, it might just be the shot in the arm that Sony so desperately needs right now.
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batz11
batz11 - 10/18/2014, 12:35 PM
Sony could have the last laugh if they announce they're teaming with Marvel Studios for Spidey to join them in Avengers 3 and other possible team-ups...
EhMaybeSays
EhMaybeSays - 10/18/2014, 12:43 PM
"Less than meaty role"
In more ways than one, I wa not a fan of emaciated Thanos.
@0marvls
That would be a classic "get there before the other studio" scenario then.
EhMaybeSays
EhMaybeSays - 10/18/2014, 12:45 PM
Sony is dead. Won't be surprised to hear of James Bond and Jump Street spinoffs.
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/18/2014, 12:46 PM
@Omarvls

dc also having the first black lead in a cinematic universe with cyborg announcement for 2020.problem is we'll get a black panther movie from marvel before then.
kong
kong - 10/18/2014, 12:48 PM
@Omarvls

No matter when the movie comes out DC still beat them to announcing it and having a date set, so they still won.
batz11
batz11 - 10/18/2014, 12:51 PM
^ huh?
niceguyeddie
niceguyeddie - 10/18/2014, 12:54 PM
Thanks deth. It's my fist article. I wanted to add another image in the body but it wouldn't work for me.
kinghulk
kinghulk - 10/18/2014, 1:36 PM
RedNtheHood- it doesn't matter if they announced it 1st a lot can happen between now and 2020 the film could be cancelled. wasent justice league announced before the avengers but it never got made because of the writers strike. what's announced 1st doesent matter what comes 1st does.
niceguyeddie
niceguyeddie - 10/18/2014, 1:37 PM
@sintzu thanks

@dethpillow thanks again
Kurne
Kurne - 10/18/2014, 1:47 PM
Sony needs to stop nao.

I mean man, look at that 2016 lineup. You have Deadpool to BvS to Dr Strange... and then Sinister Six at the very end (of both the year and that slate).
Wolf38
Wolf38 - 10/18/2014, 6:51 PM
I think that Sony already shafted itself by deciding to do a Sinister Six film. No help needed from WB/DC.
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 10/18/2014, 8:14 PM
Sony should basically just "Let it Go".

DJThrawn
DJThrawn - 10/18/2014, 9:06 PM
I get the hate for the Amazing Spiderman series reboot but I don't think Sony has been all bad. Sony's Marvel pictures have 5 of the 11 Academy Awards nominations and have won the only Academy Award that a Marvel themed picture has won. That does say something for them. They also have one out of the 3 or 4 certifiable Marvel classics of the genre in Spiderman 2. They are capable of making good comicbook films. They just need the right director for the series and better writers.
cimmerian
cimmerian - 10/20/2014, 9:03 PM
Good article, niceguyeddie.
I was also surprised, why WB are making Suicide Squad ahead of Justice League. My reason being that these group of super villains have not yet appeared in any Solo DC superhero movie.
Then this article hit me. Not only is DC/WB competing against Marvel, they're also targeting Sony. Wow! Talk about bullying a weaker player who's already been humiliated, bruised, wounded and too weakened to fight back. That way, DC/WB has a competition to easily step on and earn 1 point in their score card. Good move!
niceguyeddie
niceguyeddie - 10/26/2014, 11:18 AM
@cimmerian thanks
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