@RigorMortis: Hmm. What do you mean by Marvel style?
If its in reference to the fact that Marvel actually employs people from the comics to write the scripts, while DC does not, then you'd be right. For some reason, WB felt it was okay to hand Green Lantern off to someone whose credentials included being the director of Life as We Know It. That, I will never understand. Honestly, Green Lantern wasn't as bad as people were saying it was, but it did suffer from the writer cramming way too much into a limited time period and giving Hal a cliched internal conflict. I'd be up for a reboot, but keep Mark Strong and I'd even say keep Ryan Reynolds, but give the script to a plotter and writer who know the character. Like Geoff Johns maybe or someone else who has actually had a run on the character's title. Same goes for Flash and Wonder Woman. I'd so love to see Azzarello's Wonder Woman brought to the big screen.
And I honestly don't get why Nolan's Batman can't be brought into a Justice League movie. Yeah, he's grounded in realism and people say Nolan's Batman couldn't fit into the larger DCU with all of the fantastical characters like Superman, but...isn't it that way in the comics? To me, the beauty of the DCU has always been that a "low" fantasy character like Batman has been allowed to coexist with "high" fantasy characters like Superman and GL. IMO, you'd just need to tone down some of those "high-fantasy" elements for a movie. One of Green Lantern's weaknesses was that it appeared too cartoonish with all the CGI utilized. I think that could have been fixed if they had changed that by having the Guardians be portrayed by live actors, not done by CGI and had some of the Oan environment actually be real sets, not CGI constructed landscapes. I mean, even in the comics, when a GL appears before the Guardians, they appear in a closed metallic "board-room", not a mountain citadel. It appears that Marvel tends to tone down their fantastical elements from the comics, while DC believes that they should make them more grandiose (at least with GL).
Anyway, I think if Man of Steel is as good as I hope (knock on wood), then DC should really consider combining Nolan's Batman with Nolan and Snyder's Superman. A potential World's Finest movie would be incredible. In conclusion, I'm so pumped to see Avengers, but to be honest I'm more excited for Dark Knight Rises.
I agree with all of it but keep ryan reynolds. Release Ryan to go fix the attrocity of deadpool, and put Nathan Fillion in the role of GL, like they should have from the friggin start.
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