Yesterday, it was announced that Joe Quesada was being promoted to "Chief Creative Officer" which is the same title held by Geoff Johns over at DC Entertainment. Newsarama got a chance to ask a few questions of Geoff.
The differences between his position and Joe's at Marvel:
"First off, congratulations to Joe. Totally deserved and one of the greats in comics. The only downside between this is that I'd love to work on a book with him as a writer/artist team. Ever since his work on Azrael, he's been on that short dream list of artists for me."
"I think the biggest difference between our CCO jobs is that Joe is still E-i-C and involved in publishing and my job is on everything outside of the comics working with Diane Nelson and Warner Bros., which is DC Entertainment. Jim [Lee] and Dan [DiDio] are heading up publishing and editorial, which is DC Comics. Also, I'm based in sunny, earthquake-prone Los Angeles. My day-to-day is in film, television, animation and interactive with the studio. Jim is also working on the video game slate and development with me and the DC team as well. That's been a lot of fun -- especially seeing and playing parts of Arkham 2!!"
Geoff also touched on his main focus and personal favorites he'd like to see get developed in some fashion.
"The real goal for me now is getting DC, Vertigo, Wildstorm and Mad to the big and small screen while staying true to the source material we all love. I'm extremely excited about what's already begun between WB and DCE in the few months I've been working in this position because, as much as I love the World's Finest, it's going way beyond the Superman and Batman projects. Green Lantern is obviously rolling and recently WB mentioned the Flash film is on the horizon. I'm in constant creative discussions about DC with the other divisions - a few personal favorites I'd love to see grow from conversations to something more are Wonder Woman, Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes], Sleeper, Suicide Squad and 100 Bullets. There's a lot to love about DC and my hope is to help do my part to show the rest of the world that too."
Newsarama also asked for updates on
Green Lantern movie and any other DC properties heading to film.
"I'm heading back to New Orleans next week! Can't wait and as I've mentioned before, knowing Hal, Kilowog, Tomar-Re and Sinestro will all be introduced to the world next summer is exciting as hell. The dailies are incredible. I can't talk much more about anything else coming up, but as announced there is some movement on The Flash!"
DogsOfWar- Not a lot of new ground covered here but I am excited to hear more talk of small screen DC adaptations still at the forefront of his thoughts. It would also be interesting to see Blue Beetle make the jump to live screen adaptation. If Johns is a fan of it, that can only help.
For the full interview, where he talks more about the comics side of things, click the link to Newsarama.