JUSTICE LEAGUE: Henry Cavill admits DCEU "hasn't worked", calls WONDER WOMAN "first step in right direction"

JUSTICE LEAGUE: Henry Cavill admits DCEU "hasn't worked", calls WONDER WOMAN "first step in right direction"

While promoting JUSTICE LEAGUE, Henry Cavill opened up about the DCEU saying it would struggle "even if Marvel didn’t exist"; touted Patty Jenkins' WONDER WOMAN as leading DCEU into the "right direction"

By KingLeonidas - Oct 30, 2017 07:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Justice League
Source: The Rake Magazine - Issue 54 - October 2017
Henry Cavill is the actor who has been with the DCEU the longest and has a candid and honest perspective to offer about it. Cavill saw his maiden foray MAN OF STEEL (2013) panned by the critics before the DCEU hit rock bottom with the one-two punch of BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE (2016) and SUCICIDE SQUAD (2016). Both movies were torn apart by critics and the former landed a slew of Razzie nominations for "worst of the year honors" including a "Worst Actor" nomination for Cavill himself.
 
Cavill, who has professed to being a fan of the charcter and the comic books was understandably upset with the way things were going  - both as an actor as well as a fan - and candidly spoke at length to The Rake magaine while promoting the upoming JUSTICE LEAGUE. He hearlds the immense critical, culutural and commerical success of Patty Jenkins' and Gal Gadot's WONDER WOMAN (2017) in getting the DCEU out of its rut and taking it in a new direction. Read the relevant excerpts from his interview below.
 
Even if Marvel didn’t exist, we’d struggle. There was a style they [DC] were going for, an attempt to be different and look at things from a slightly different perspective, which hasn’t necessarily worked. Yes, it has made money but it has not been a critical success; it hasn’t given everyone that sensation which superheroes should give the viewer.

I think it is a wonderful time for the female hero. It is the perfect setting in social politics right now, we need it, we want that perspective, and Wonder Woman has struck at the ideal time and has become a phenomenal success, which is fantastic. Any success within the superhero universe, especially within the DC Universe, is wonderful, because I want to keep telling the Superman story; selfishly, that works for me.

I feel like now the right mistakes have been made and they haven’t been pandered [to], and we can start telling the stories in the way they need to be told. It is even better to come back from a mistake or stylistic error into the correct vein because it will make it seem that much stronger. Wonder Woman was the first step in the right direction.

Let us know what you make of Cavill's assessment of the DCEU in the comments section below!

Justice League
Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Superman
Amy Adams as Lois Lane
Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
Ezra Miller as Barry Allen/The Flash
Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry/Aquaman
Ray Fisher as Victor Stone/Cyborg
Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor
Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth
Diane Lane as Martha Kent
J.K. Simmons as Commissioner James Gordon
Billy Crudup as Dr. Henry Allen
Kiersey Clemons as Iris West
Amber Heard as Mera
Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko
Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta
Joe Morton as Dr. Silas Stone
Julian Lewis Jones in an undisclosed role
Ciarán Hinds as Steppenwolf

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XelCorp
XelCorp - 10/30/2017, 7:09 PM
Preach it to the fanboys buddy lool
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 10/30/2017, 7:52 PM
@XelCorp - i bet he wouldnt have said this if snyder were there. he just betrayed his homeboy who got him a job and $$$.

Bit i agree lol, every1 but batman sucked for a long time
TheFurious
TheFurious - 10/30/2017, 7:09 PM
He basically is calling justice league another mistake... I see
KingLeonidas
KingLeonidas - 10/30/2017, 7:11 PM
@TheFurious - How is he calling it another mistake? He's saying the mistakes are in the past now.
Forthas
Forthas - 10/30/2017, 7:09 PM
No Sh#t!
Forthas
Forthas - 10/30/2017, 7:12 PM
Wonder Woman is not the right direction, it is: overrated; utilizes the same dependence on CGI; and Wonder Woman - the character - deserved better!
NotoriousWolf23
NotoriousWolf23 - 10/30/2017, 7:46 PM
@Forthas - i agree it's overrated. But much better than bvs, MOS.and better than couple Marvel films too.
Forthas
Forthas - 10/30/2017, 7:51 PM
@NotoriousWolf23 - I liked Wonder Woman better than Amazing Spider-man 2 , Fantastic Four, Thor Dark World, Iron Man 2, X Men Apocalypse, BvS and Suicide Squad. It was on par with Thor, Captain America The First Avenger, and Amazing Spider-man
nuclearpriest
nuclearpriest - 10/30/2017, 9:01 PM
@Forthas - It's better than Iron Man 3 as well, and I'm a Marvel guy.
Forthas
Forthas - 10/30/2017, 9:15 PM
@nuclearpriest - ...I would put it on par...but I can see someone liking Wonder Woman more...its close for me!
Jaspion
Jaspion - 10/30/2017, 10:35 PM
Iron Man 3 any day.
SisterSunday52
SisterSunday52 - 10/30/2017, 11:44 PM
@Forthas - Wonder Woman is tied with Batman v Superman as the best DC Film and better than one third of the Marvel movies. It's a brilliant anti-war film that that does things we have never seen in an origin movie. It absolutely deserves its score especially over Civil Spar, which should have received a sixty at most.
Forthas
Forthas - 10/31/2017, 12:02 AM
@SisterSunday52 - I think as time goes on it won't be very kind to Wonder Woman.
OrgasmicPotatoe
OrgasmicPotatoe - 10/31/2017, 1:26 PM
@Jaspion - I agree. It was fun to see Tony just being a [frick]in mess the whole time, and still pull it off 'cause he's a madman & built an army of suits.

Ben Kingsley's role was just icing on the cake. Damn good icing.

bigdannymac
bigdannymac - 10/30/2017, 7:14 PM
I agree with what he had to say and hope he gets to continue on as Superman too

I have high hopes for Justice League and am excited about the future of DC Films
Forthas
Forthas - 10/30/2017, 7:15 PM
That is funny...because I think Man of Steel is the best DCEU film ever made!
KingLeonidas
KingLeonidas - 10/30/2017, 7:16 PM
@Forthas - You think it is better than Wonder Woman???
Sonofthecbm
Sonofthecbm - 10/30/2017, 7:19 PM
@KingLeonidas - yes also it's umfair because it was deluded by the nolan vison which would've been cool if it connected to that bale batman but yeah it was ducking great
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 10/30/2017, 7:19 PM
@KingLeonidas - Wonder Woman doesn’t really hold up to repeat viewings imo, I loved it when I first saw it but after popping in the bluray I couldn’t really find a reason to keep watching
KingLeonidas
KingLeonidas - 10/30/2017, 7:24 PM
@Ha1frican - Haven't seen it on home video yet but from theater viewing, I think it handily beat the other 3 DCEU films.
Forthas
Forthas - 10/30/2017, 7:24 PM
@KingLeonidas - Man of Steel had better villains, special effects, a more coherent story, better supporting actors, and more drama AND action.

I get it...Wonder Woman better presented a "superhero" story, but I think Man of Steel did so also...just not nearly as well. But that is the ONLY thing Wonder Woman sort of did better than Man of Steel!
KingLeonidas
KingLeonidas - 10/30/2017, 7:26 PM
@Forthas - Wonder Woman had infinitely better direction. Which helps it be a better film. Also the script was better. Man of Steel script was horrible.
Forthas
Forthas - 10/30/2017, 7:39 PM
@KingLeonidas - Watch this clip and tell me that this hundreds of years old demigoddes did not come across as a petulant child...




Where in Man of Steel do you see that except when he is a child...so that is better direction...at least character wise on the part (and I can't believe I am writing this) Zack Snyder
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