@sethysquare: And you know why a Justice League movie has been in development for longer than that? Because it can't work on it's own.
You don't understand why every movie in the world didn't need a prequel to do fine? I'm sorry... what? Every movie in the world? That doesn't even make sense. I'm not talking about every single movie out there. I'm talking about a Justice League movie.
Yes that's exactly what I'm saying. As a team the X-Men work as a singular unit because they're all the same. They're mutants. They have the same superhero origin. I don't know HOW MUCH I can stress this enough. You can handwave any character after the first ten minutes of X-Men 1 because, "oh, they're a mutant. This is their mutant power." It's easy. You can't do that with Wonder Woman, or with Flash. Not if you want to do any sliver of justice to the comics, the fans or just want to make a decent movie in general.
You can see what trying to give a fleshed out background with Wolverine did to the X-Men movies. It consumed them.
I said that people know who Wonder Woman is, but not what she is. There is no argument here saying that Wonder Woman is ingrained into pop culture so that means she doesn't need an origin story. That is the worst possible creative decision I have ever heard. The number one rule is to eliminate the possibility that the audience know's who the character is. That's the groundwork for introducing a character into a movie. You work your way up. Just because everyone knew who Spider-Man was, Sam Raimi didn't just ignore his origin, did he? He did not.
Yes, but you're a fan. You grew up watching all these origins because you were a fan and they made you a fan. Children who watch Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes will know who Ant Man is, but that doesn't mean that every possible consumer for the movie knows who he is. That doesn't mean that, because fans know Ant Man, they don't need to do an origin story. This is for a wider audience than all of that put together. This is bigger than any cartoon Justice League film. This is a film that will attract millions of people. Millions of people who only know that Wonder Woman is, "that chick in the bikini and has a rope."
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