As part of Collider's 7-part interview with producer Dan Lin, the question that's been on the minds of many a CBM fan finally came up: "What's up with the Justice League movie?"
Lin described his movie,
Justice League: Mortal as his
"dream project" and said DC Entertainment seems to be switching gears and taking a page from Marvel Studios' play book:
"I’ll say it’s the reason I started my company. You know, I thought that was the ultimate project. I was a fan-boy--for me to work with all those characters together on a team and kind of the themes of that movie...that’s my dream. It’s on-hold right now as DC sorts out its strategy, but...it seems like they’re building to Justice League instead of going with the team movie first and doing individual movies after that."
According to Lin, DC Entertainment is currently rethinking their film strategy, but that an announcement should be forthcoming:
"The only one right now as you probably know, they’re unveiling their DC strategy in January so you’ll hear more about that and they’ll speak about that in the new year."
Lin went on to say that the success of films like
Iron Man and
The Dark Knight has put comic books on studios' radar as viable source material, but the competition has only increased because of it:
"Is it easier to set with a comic book? Yes, for sure. Because now the business model has been proven, but just like any other comic book movies there’s glut of them in the market place now. So the question now is how do you differentiate the comic book you bring to the studio or even the comic book movie you bring to the studio makes it different...you have to figure how do you differentiate yours."
Even though it may be many years before a
Justice League movie sees the light of day, Lin already has another movie based on a DC Comics super-team in the works:
"The only other [comic book movie] besides Justice League that I’m working on is the Suicide Squad...that’s a different kind of superhero movie. For us that’s a super villain movie. It’s almost Dirty Dozen set in the world of supervillains. That’s the only one for me that’s on the front burner."