All DC Movies on Hold!

how long will we have to wait for DCU comic book movies that aren't Batman or Superman

Wait a minute...You mean, they haven't BEEN on hold?

Goyer doesn know that Iron Man was Paramount, right?

DC sucks (exept batman,superman and lobo) screw there movies and yes ghost rider did suck

I disagree igloodude11. Marvel isn't running low. DC is in a freeze because of WB. Too many suits getting involved. Beside Marvel just started there own studio Marvel Films. IronMan & the reboot to the Hulk did farelly well & are seen as a success.

I can't say this news is unexpected, as DC seems to think time will wait for them. They need to get on their horse, or Marvel will destroy them.


Furthermore, and more importantly, can someone please take off the Vin Diesel add on the main page, since its a scientific fact that Vin Diesel sucks and should be hit by a bus.

DC is just ridiculous. What the heck are they waiting for? Marvel is putting their ideas to motion and has totally taken up the market, while DC is just blowing their balls. They probably realize now Marvel has used up most of the ideas. What lack of creativity.

Well DC has their own studio... it's called WB (WB owns DC). They could probably make a special department for comic books, but it will still be WB.

Maybe, they put everything on hold to not repeat the same mistake they did on Watchmen, their lawyers are probably double checking that they do own the rights to all those characters.

thecolonel, you do know you have a DC character as your avatar??

its crappy , but if it means the adaps are going to be of a high quality then i dont mind waiting. Its true that Marvel dont seem to care so much about quality as getting the films out there.

Yeah, let's hope they do keep the quality, and differentiate according to the specific characters, cause if they start making everything à la Dark knight, then they are going to screw it up big.

Oh yea,

I don't think Erica Durance is THAT good of an actress, Welling must be smashin that between takes!!!

God i was so stoked when i heard about the possible Green Arrow script where the arrow gets sent to prison and has to escape, with the twist that the majority of the convicts were put there by none other than the Arrow himself. imagine that! a prison full of villians and supervillians!

buttttttttt

since DC sucks and MARVEL RULES, look like we wont be able to see that for another five years, if at all.

This is GREAT NEWS! Let them get everything figured out and much like Marvel we'll have dates and movie titles that are real!!!!

The reason behind all this is:

They see what Marvel is doing which is creating a superhero universe on screen instead of having every seperate hero in their own universe. They see the dollar signs evrywhere meaning the potential it would have to erase EVERYTHING already established. Which also means no more Nolan Bat movies. No matter which one comes out next, it will be the beginning of the DCU on the big screen as we know it. They will think of a plan to "correctly" incorporate every single character with tie ins to bring us great movies like JLA, DOOMSDAY, and KINGDOM COME which they simply couldn't have made before hand and they actually thaught it simply couldn't be done. Now that Marvel has taken the risk in proving them wrong, they're trying to use their idea to make themselves rise above Marvel since WB is supposed to own everything DC related. So they're also checking into that, making sure they don't make the same mistake with Watchmen.

Let's not throw Marvel's name under the bus for something other studios are responsible for.

Marvel and their film company Marvel Studios has made two movies. Two.

I'm not really surprised that Warner Bros. are putting on the brakes. They're retarded. I mean really, the writing has been on the wall since 2000 that comic movies make money when taken seriously. How slow can you be? They can sit around a table and toss out bad decisions all day while Marvel Studios plows ahead full steam monopolizing the comic book genre. I've been waiting long enough for WB to get off their hands, pluck their heads from their asses and put out a movie that's not Batman or Superman. But they've failed yet again to think for themselves without waiting on someone else to prod them into motion.

This could be seen as a good thing but at the same time it could also prove to be a colossal waste of time when they get active again and just pump out a bucket of fail. What are the chances that when they do come out of their tree house, every other project that wasn't Batman or Superman will get the axe. No more Green Lantern. Just like Teen Titans direct to DVD, the live-action Wonder Woman or JLA and recently Shazam (not that it was a good idea to begin with). I mean, that's pretty much Warner Bros. modus operandi. To build hype on a non-Batman/Superman property, start the project, waste that time and money, cut it off at the throat and bury it. Until we're left with nothing but Batman and Batman spin-offs. Don't get me wrong, Batman is cool, but c'mon.

Fingers are crossed that this pause will shake some good sense in their thick skulls and we'll get to see The Flash in his own movie soon...oh and Green Lantern too and stuff. If they walk out and start talking Batman this and Superman that, I'm going to laugh. Because they'll be back to square one.

What they should walk out and do is just create a film branch for DC to control. Like they had with Warner Independent Pictures. Except with a larger budget so DC could have something of a studio themselves to give the fans of the other characters in the DCU something. All that Warner Bros. does is pay the bills in terms of involvement. At least then we'll friggin' get something.

Remember WB got DC when there was no comic book movies-boom...Warnes Bros in fact were the pioneers:

In fact thanks to WB we got the Burton´s Batman in 1989, and with that movie began the new comic book movie era... which had a grand rebirth in 200 with a younger Singer and the first x men movie...

I AM NOT defending TODAY´s WB ok? i am just saying the studio itself made something very good 20 years ago and 19 years later did it again...OR SHOULD I SAY, BURTON AND NOLAN DID, AND NOT THE STUDIO..? mmmh..

Shaman- yes i know you are talking DC and maybe as you said there is still time to build a solid and cool DCU ,

what i mean is HOW MANY Marvel super heroes were already out there for the general public before Iron Man? The Iron Man II trailer will start with a "forget all Fox-Paramount-Sony movies, this is the real Marvel Universe" ?

Marvel saw the Snowball growing exponentially and said: wait a minute.. and they seem to have waken up in time to do a great hulk rebooth and a great Iron M and surely a great cap,thor, etc...

But to have a CONSISTENT DC COMICS MOVIE-UNIVERSE, WB would have to PRODUCE MOVIES WITH DIFFERENT CHARACTERS BACK TO BACK in order to flood the market as someone said, at least one per year like Grif said.

Or at least A LOT of cameos in the next DC-WB films..
...and to be honest, something RADICAL has to happen in their executive meetings in order to do so.

It also could be WB testing the waters with Fox. Fox put a stop to WB releasing a Comic Movie pretty short. Marvel is enjoying the lack of compition verse DC with this stall. WB has no other finished picture and with Watchman on hold, this allows the Marvel products to dominate in the market. Think what is coming. Wolverine would be over shadowed by the Watchmen. I think the success of Dark Knight shocked and frighntend the "House of M".

Yes that one looked like a bizarre-surealistic- student-movie. did you hear the sound they added when Mr Freeze´s henchmen slipped or were thrown by batman??: "SWHOOOOOOUUUCH!", just like the 60´s series..no, worst, those were just POW!, THOMB! with letters...but then again, IT WAS 1966!!, not 1997 or so.

burton´s batman 1, the breakthrough,was made AFTER A PAUSE- in 2000´s Fox´s Xmen after that silly B%R, and then AFTER ANOTHER PAUSE: BATMAN BEGINS... so let´s hope something even better than TDK comes out next. ;-].. with other heroes i mean.

creative license of that sort has increased and bolstered the batman fanbase. while nolan's gotham is a bit myopic, he has left the door open making batman a fugitive. like i said on another older post, bats has the opportunity to operate in other cities in the dcu now that operations on home turf are even riskier business. so let's be thankful for nolan and what he has done thus far. he could have just the same done two moon knight films for marvel and catapulted that b list hero into stardom ( i would love to see that happen actually) but i digress. you all make valid points but i this point is a better jump off: dc needs it's own studio the way marvel has its own studio yet let other companies in on distributing the film,again just like marvel. lionsgate is cleaning up on marvel properties as well as others and indeed the writing on the wall is apparent to all but those who set the wheels in motion. eventually dc will have to follow in whatever percentage the formula marvel has so it can formiddably compete. then maybe we can see a marvel vs dcu or even image/wildstorm/topcow vs marvel&/dcu crossover film before the wrinkles on my balls have wrinkles. i will however be rooting for and expecting my original want primarily.