@superbatprime said:
Well since OP forgot to say why it wouldn't work... despite the thread title claiming otherwise, I'll tell you why it wouldn't work.
It has to do with something comic book fans forget, ie: John Q Public is who makes millions for movies, not the relatively tiny community of actual fans.
Ok bear with me as I ramble on for a while...
Iron Man, Thor... You want to know the truth?
The mass public didn't have a clue who these characters were before the movies.
Captain America was just a name, the Hulk was just a concept (big green angry guy right? Sure I know who the Hulk is).
Hawkeye? Black Widow? Nick Fury?
Forget it, the masses didn't have a clue.
Thor would have flopped btw, if not for the fact that the public had been shown that something bigger was going on.
But now even the non comic book reader is hyped for the Avengers, Marvel have carefully and patiently joined the dots for the public, gently introduced the characters and established their connections to the big picture, they had a level playing field for each character, no one character overshadowed any other... So in the Avengers, all will be equal in the public eye.
Good job Marvel eh?
DC on the other hand own the two names that everyone knows... Batman and Superman, the public knows them as well as they know Mickey Mouse or Jesus.
They are the great shadows that fall over and obscure any other character DC have (to the public).
Green Lantern was a brave but ultimately doomed attempt to bring another JLA member into the public eye... It failed, no don't argue, it failed... Green Lantern did not become equal to Bats or Supes in the public mind... Fail.
Then there was the Wonder Woman 2011 pilot... Enough said.
DC are both privileged and cursed by their ownership of Batman and Superman, it's the existence of these two that cripple any chance of a JLA movie from working, that dooms any chance of a movie featuring the Flash or Aquaman from being a hit and consequently preventing DC from raising other characters to the same status in the mass media.
Which in turn means that to the public a JLA movie will always be a Superman/Batman movie... with a bunch of other guys.
Sooo... what DC need to do is forget about a JLA movie, forget about trying to beat Marvel at a game Marvel has already won (Avengers about to release, anticipation high and positive, job done) and work towards a Worlds Finest movie instead.
So join me now and purge all thoughts of a JLA movie, join me now and raise your voices so Warner Bros can hear WORLDS FINEST!
Ok I'm done rambling... Jeez I wonder if that all made any sense, hell with it, I'll just hit 'post' and run.
:P
Good points.
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