What was your favorite thing about the new DCU lineup? And don't worry, I'll be going in depth with these projects and talking about specifically what I want to see and what I would do with them in the future, so be sure not to miss that!
As someone who is a massive horror movie fan and having read an obscene amount of Swamp Thing comics in middle school, I absolutely cannot wait to see what they do with the character and his supporting cast like Anton Arcane. Mega hype
Swamp thing is so underrated. And so is blue beetle and booster gold which is why I'm so happy they're getting their own projects and bringing them into the spotlight
What truly amazes me about James Gunn's DCU slate is how much passion and love for the comics James Gunn has the comics and for so many of these characters, to the point that, as you said, countless copies of these comic book source materials got sold out, which is insane. I have a lot of faith in James and Peter Safran's 8-10 year plan as this is DC's last chance to make a comeback for the better and with actual throughout the planning and new direction. I have a lot of ideas and hopes for what we could see in the long-term future of the DCU such as a Green Lantern film franchise/saga, a Question tv series, a New Gods show/film, a Green Arrow & Black Canary series/film, a Zatanna film, a Teen Titans film etc... Even though I do have some small concerns and queries such as whether this reboot will be a soft or full reboot, how soon will it be until we hopefully see recast versions of characters like Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, also the aforementioned age gap between Batman and Superman, why to start with Daimian (even though do like Damian), what will it be like to bring in actors for both animation and live-action, etc...? But all and all I am still hyped to hopefully see a bright future for DC
A animated Teen Titans movie made with care and creativity that understands the potential of animation like Puss N Boots The Last Wish or Spider-Verse would go so unbelievably hard!
Ok Hear me out: John Constantine's first appearance was in The Swamp Thing. So if James used this to introduce my man then it would be the perfect set up for the Justice League Dark.
My only real concern has to do with the Batfamily. Tim is my favorite DC character, and skipping to Damian doesn't sound good for him. I'm hoping they don't erase him (as happens too often), but even if he is part of it, the start of his story-his foundation-is part of what makes him such a great character. He's the kind of character who would NEED a prequel, and I'm not confident that would happen. Everything else sounds great though. I would love to see Lanterns pulling from GL/GA. Another character I'd love to see is Etrigan in Swamp Thing.
I liked Tim but honestly I don't want him to be in as he will most likely be like the recent version of him and not the 2000s version that's actually good
I am really hoping that they do keep some things separate. Very skeptical of the games carrying over actors and keeping continuity. I feel like having rocksteadys Arkham franchise doing it’s own thing while Nolans Batman/DCEU was coming out and acting as a BTAS spiritual successor was inspired and I hope we don’t lose the charm of the creativity that is inherent from the different mediums adapting the same IP. Give us those movies and give us entirely different games with expressive artstyles, new stories and engaging gameplay 🙏
*I feel like The Green Lantern Series* should be like Serpico or Batman Year One… in the sense that these “Fish out of water” cops are sent to work with a police force on Earth (because the series is set on Earth) to solve an obviously extra-terrestrial crime.. and along the way they realise the police department is corrupt and it’s like this silent game of weeding out the bad cops and who can be trusted 🤷🏾♂️
That could really work. I'm really excited to finally see Green Lantern again in live action and I'm happy they're using both John and Hal hopefully they can equally flesh out both their characters and introduce a great dynamic between the two Hal being the action first, courageous, instinctual GL and John the no-nonsense, humble, dutiful GL. I also hope they take inspiration from films like Training Day especially if we see Sinestro who is a really underrated DC villain and Gl's best/biggest villain, I hope they introduce him as a GL first, then explore his character and dynamic with Hal to flesh out his philosophy and perspective on keeping order through fear, making a Shakespear character of sorts that we see fall to villainy. I've quite literally written down 6 film scripts for what I've mapped out to be a saga of GL epic sci-fi films if the series is successful enough to warrant a live-action sci-fi film, which I passionately believe the character deserves, as Green Lantern is, in fact, DC's Star Wars and should be the same treatment for live action. I've got castings, storyboards and my own personal ideas and sketches that I one day plan to pitch on UA-cam and who knows maybe James Gunn could see it which would literally be a dream come true.
@@jadenbryant9283 Interesting idea, I mean the Guardians (except for Ganthed) are honestly villains themselves so I could see that being the case. I haven't read the Earth One book in a while so I'll have to reread them someday. I have been working on a 6-film script for a Green Lantern film saga pitch and I have castings, draft scripts and my own ideas for an entire saga following the Emerald Knights. I also fore-shadow Blackest Night as a two-part end to this saga (I have an entire saga pitch written be-low) I thoroughly believe with real passion and vision Green Lantern could become DC's Star Wars. I hope to share my film pitches someday on UA-cam as well. *Film 1: Green Lantern: First Flight:* - Hal Jordan's origin, meeting an emotional turmoil Hal Jordan may be cocky but fails to express his emotions after the same circumstances with his mother dying from cancer and Hal feeling emotionally responsible, in addition to coming to terms with his complicated feelings of losing both his father and now the fear and loss he has about losing his mother, but he also needs to accept his emotions and express his fears if he wants to grow. He also has problems with expressing his feelings towards Carol Ferris (his boss), who begins the film as someone who's wise to Hal's cocky macho-man bravado and doesn't fall for it, but when he eventually does share how much he hates himself, and how much he's truly scared about letting others down just like he blames himself for his father and mothers death, that why he goes head first into action to compensate for his own inner hatred and guilt. I also want to ground this story for the first half, and later explore the GLC in the second act with Abin crash-ing into Earth and Hal taking up the mantle as Green Lantern, where he is also partnered up with Sinestro, explores Oa and meets the Guardians and all kinds of GL members/aliens like Tomar Rae, Ch'p, Boodika, Kilowog who gives him a hard time as a trainee calling him a "Poozer" but soon grows to like Hal for his natural instincts with danger. Sinestro is still in mourning after learning about Abin's death, and though he hides his distaste for Hal as Abin's successor, he soon learns to open himself up to Hal and accept him as a partner while simultaneously teasing his own inner hatred for the Guardians and their hypocrisy/bureaucratic op-position to handling intergalactic threats. The villain in this film would be Krona and The Man-hunters, who act as a direct personification of cold emotionless machines that the Guardians first used, and Krona would act in his own quest to get revenge on the Guardians for banishing him, even though my take on Krona was banished only because he wanted to explore what existed outside of the universe, the rest of the Guardians opposed his actions with no legitimate justification, thus allowing Krona to activate a failsafe in the Manhunters to go rogue years ago. After millennia of unjust banishment, Krona returns to get even and reactivates the Manhunters to take out the Corps. Hal and Sinestro together, in a 'Training Day'-Esque premise, act to stop him and Krona acts as a dark reflection of Hal and his natural instincts and dis-taste of authority, when Krona went against unjust authority he was punished, just as Hal has over the years and Krona tries to persuade him, but Hal learns to overcome his inner hatred and fear of letting overs down as he's learnt throughout the film to embrace his emotions and accept his fears and insecurities, working alongside Sinestro they defeat Krona and The Man-hunters, Hal is respected amongst GLC/Oa and amongst Sinestro, Hal comes to terms with his insecurities and learns to make peace with the loss of his parents and discovers a new purpose in life, while opening himself up to Carol (teasing their eventual romance). Furthermore, we would reveal at the end that the Guardians secretly knew about the Manhunters yet do not share their connections with any GL, and it is only when Krona tells Sinestro about how the Manhunters were created by the Guardians and killed millions, especially Sector 666, only then does Sinestro feel betrayed by his Corps and beliefs thus forcing Sinestro to make it seem that Krona committed suicide when really he killed himself with a ring and began devising a plan to end the injustice teasing his downfall. Post credit scene also teases John Stewart and Atrocitus. *Film 2: Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns* :- introduce Atrocitus and the Red Lanterns as new Lantern factions, acting rebellious vigilantes against the Guardians as Atrocitus much like the comic is burdened by the loss of his family and people under the Man-hunters and blames the Guardians, as he learnt that they were responsible from the time he was with the Five Inversions (hypothetically explored in a Green Lantern anthology show). Atrocitus forms the Red Lanterns to kill members of the GLC to get closer to Oa. Hal and Sinestro are introduced to new Lanterns John Stewart and Guy Gardener, and with Kilowog and Tomar's help they separate into teams to stop the Red Lanterns. Hal also learns to accept new allies and has to deal with Carol Ferris being taken over by the Star Sapphires/Zamarons who left the Guardians to create the Star Sapphire Corps of love. Essentially revolving around a theme of accepting love and not hatred. We also have Sinestro reveal the lies the Guardians have been hiding about the Manhunters and Ganthet takes full responsibility as he and another Guardian Sayd admit to their actions, feeling nothing but guilt and shame. The Guardians are forced to banish Ganthet as well after he opens up about the truth and they discover his experiments to use the blue light of 'hope' as a power source. Luckily Sayd gives Ganthed the means to activate the blue light initiative to depower all Red Lanterns. Sinestro at the end of the film betrays Hal and reveals how he has been using the Weaponeers of Qward to create his own Lantern ring and use prisoners from Oa's science cells to form an entire army of prisoners to go against the GLC after the years of lies and hypocrisy that Guardians have hidden, which is further personified by Atrocitus and his pure rage filled hatred as he wishes to die in peace knowing he's gotten his revenge for his family and people. Hal is utterly mortified by Sinestro's betrayal and doesn't want to fight his friend despite Sinestro also not wanting to fight Hal he knows that he must do this in order to truly allow his perception of true peace to prosper in the universe as it will be governed by fear since the will is not enough to keep people like Atrocitus at bay, especially if they can create their own power rings. Sinestro is forced to subdue and badly injure Hal, while also revealing Boodika switched sides after Sinestro revealed the truth to her, releasing all the prisoners to become Yellow Lanterns. Hal is speechless at his friend's betrayal and badly injured. Then the film cuts to black. Also, tease Saint Walker. *Film 3: Green Lantern: Fear* - adapting Sinestro Corps War *Film 4: Green Lantern: Agent Orange* *Film 5: Green Lantern: Blackest Night Part 1* - I plan to have my take on Willian Hand introduced in Film 5, but also teased in Film 1, in Film 5 he would actually be friends with Kyle Rayner, be college roommates, and show how much Kyle cares for William as a friend. My take on William Hand would be in his early/mid 20's and be a mentally struggling/suicidally depressed person as he has struggled with hearing voices of the dead his entire life, and has been thought of as mentally ill by his family, acting as the black sheep of the Hand family, isolated by his brothers and emotionally disregarded by his parents, who have treated him with cold, controlling discontent as they see him as a failure, leaving William to be emotionally alone his whole life until Kyle treats him like a real person, giving William compassion. In Film 5 I would begin the Blackest Night by having it centred around all the Earth GLs (Hal, John, Guy and Kyle) attempting to save William Hand from Sinestro and Atrocitus from working together to try and kill William to prevent the Blackest Night as he is destined to unleash Nekron. Not only that but The Guardians would also order Green Lanterns from all sectors to hunt down William Hand as they too are terrified by the Blackest Night (The Guardians as hypocrites to their code) thus creating massive tension and conflict throughout the Corps. It all being a race to save this one guy to prevent the Blackest Night, and it also tackles concepts and questions that even Hal and John struggle with, is one life worth saving when the universe is at stake, is killing William really the right option, especially if has suicidal tendencies? *Film 6: Green Lantern: Blackest Night Part 2*
Yeah, that film was so much fun, and really unique and bold. Kirk Langstrom as a vampire Batman is such a cool idea and that film Superman is also such an interesting take on the character without having the go down the typical evil Superman trope.
I doubt this new DCU will take over everything because we’re still going to get individual projects that are under the name DC Elseworlds, which is what they should’ve been doing from the beginning. I also like how they’re using names from the comics like Gods and Monsters as well as Elseworlds, two popular titles from DC Comics.
I NEED Plastic Man to get the love and respect he deserves. He can apparently go toe to toe with Superman and is immune to Martian Manhunter’s telepathy. Batman classifies him as one of the most dangerous humans alive
Im very excited to see what they do with the less anticipated projects like Waller and Creature Commandos. Also we NEED a Batman Beyond project as an elseworld project
Overall I'm super excited about all of this, BUT I'm very very nervous about The Authority movie. I feel like it would be so easy for it to become just "The Boys but DC" when it's so much more complex than that. The Boys is about corporate greed and capitalism corrupting super-powered people which is great in its own right. But The Authority is about the inherent power and authority that comes with superhuman abilities and their relationship to the state and the conflict between institutional authority versus superhuman authority.
What if instead of a green arrow movie, it was a show with a darker, more Batman like take that cuts out his personality. You could call it arrow or something
I’m super excited for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe. Their comics inspirations to adapt the stories to film and TV (Live action and animated) makes so hopeful and optimistic about the future. I’m curious to see how the video games will be handled tho 🤔
James took a massive L with dc gaming tbh. Mans want to make the games and the films take place in the same universe and in doing that, the developers have no room to breath and make original stories.
Yeah the idea that the games are also going to connect to the DCU weirds me out. I was thinking it could be like mobile games or small AA titles but if he wants to have AAA games connected then woof good luck with that
2 words. Star. Wars. They’ve been making games connected to the movies for decades. You gotta start thinking of a cinematic universe in the means of Star Wars than Marvel, because that’s what James is going for.
some DC ideas that I would pay all my life savings to see on screen: -Wally west, as long as they take more inspiration from Young Justice than the Flash tv show .KF's suit in The flash in my opinion is overdesigned, and while I don't mind the change in skin tone, I also don't think the hairstyle worked for the suit -clayface. One of my favorite rouges in Batman's gallery. specifically Ethan bennet. He is my favorite clayface and It would cause some issues if Damien tried to dismember him, or hurt him a lot as he was once Bruce's friend - a storyline either involving Jason Todd or Jimmy Olsen. More of Jimmy because I don't remember a good adaptation of Jimmy. He could be like, Superman's healer or something and constantly joke about how Lois loves superman and Clark loves Lois and somehow reveal his Identity to Lex Luthor or anything -Let some of the experienced hero's rouges be gone. Have Ra's dead or have Cheetah in custody or captain cold avenging his sister like injustice and protecting Central city while Flash is out of town. Have Lobo paid off to not come to earth on bounties. It would be cool to have a world that actually has events and has people that rise and fall. Heck I wouldn't mind If They start with heroes gone and have others gone trying to find them. It would be world building.
I think Green Arrow: Year One could adapt into a movie really well. And it could really stand apart from other superhero movies with its focus on survival
I’m really excited for this new DC Universe! I’m really happy that we are getting the Bat-Family & this new universe has a chance to be better then the MCU if they do it right! Personally I feel like they should hold off on the Justice League until chapter 2 of the universe & have the next chapter that being chapter 2 should revolve around Heroes & Vigilantes. Lastly by the end of chapter 2 I would really like to have the line up be John Stewart, Super Man, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Shiera Hall & even Martian Manhunter! (Basically the Animated universe version which I love to death 😁) Also, as much as I like Darkseid I believe they should hold off on him and instead have the League fight the Legion of Doom or something! I just love DC & comics in general so this is what I would honestly want out of the DCU in the future 🙏 (Side Note; DC comics has a really big theme of Gods trying to be humans and what not, so I think a way to do this would be to take inspiration from the Cadmus Arc in Justice League Unlimited which is hands down one of my favorite Justice League stories ever! So taking inspiration off that and maybe even pulling another Justice League Unlimited by slowly building up the team over time would be incredible! This could also work to show how dangerous Darkseid is when he eventually comes into play with all the heroes and maybe even villains having to work together in order to stop him!)
I love all of your ideas and absolutely agree with them. I'm so excited to see James Gunn's long-term future planned out of the DCU, and I'm very excited about a lot of these projects, you really feel how passionate James feels about these characters and stories. Also love your idea to name Chapter 2: Heroes & Vigilantes. I also agree that instead of building Darkseid up too soon as a JL villain like Thanos for the Avengers, they should rather use Darkseid in small appearances and explore his character in something like a New God's project or a Mister Miracle project (especially Tom King's run which is absolutely pheromonal and coined the term "Darkseid Is"), use Draksied more as an omnipotent force of evil, than a villain, or at least not so soon. BTW I am also so glad there finally taking inspiration from the DCAU and other DC animated media, I also hope they bring in legends like Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Mark Waid, Grant Morrison etc... to act as executive producers and writers of these projects. I also had an idea that the films that introduce potential members for the DCU Justice League, these films could introduce potential members for the DCU Legion of Doom, which would be built up as the big threat of the DCU and act as an almost twisted build-up and hype technique that was used when the first Avengers was being built up back in the day.
@@milkiassamuel780 I loved reading about your amazing ideas & I’ve got to say that I completely agree! Again the idea of Chapter 2 being “Heroes & Vigilantes” would help to establish the heroes & also bring forth more of a focus on the heroes which would lead up to the Justice Leagues formation and the Heroes all coming together! The vigilante aspect I included because if they are going to tackle things like the Bat-Family or Teen Titans in the movies or even shows it would be cool to include & flesh out characters like Deathstroke or Red-Hood which is mainly one of the characters that made me think of Chapter 2 focusing on Heroes & Vigilantes! Also, coming off of Chapter 1 Thai was an idea I didn’t mention but the idea of also fleshing out characters that are indirectly involved with monsters, that being magic users! Characters like Zatana & Dr. Fate representing that Hero aspect & maybe even Constantine & Etreigan kinda acting like Vigilantes of some sort potentially building up to a Justice League Dark down the line 👀 (Side Note; Seeing how much James Gunn loves bringing in obscure & not very well-known characters would work really well if he eventually brings the Justice League Dark storyline & characters together! It could help to show fans many fan favorite characters like Constantine, Zatana, & Etreigan finally onto the big screen, maybe even introducing audiences to characters like Spector, Gray Ghost, Dead-Man, & even Detective Chimp! Exploring magic in the DCU would be like a dream & honestly I feel like that could be a really good idea for them to take into account when eventually bringing in magic to the universe!)
One of the things I actually LOVE about the announcement is that these adaptations are directed inspired by specific comics like Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow....I love that because is exactly what the DC early animated films did to perfection (before they start adapting the stupid new 52 crap), those films are some of the pure best comicbook adaptations made and is sad they never get brought to the conversation because they are ANIMATED and as we animation fans know very well general audiences always assume animated means for KIDS, and that just flat ignorant and wrong....so if these films will take that approach, I'm all forward to...also Woman of Tomorrow is my favorite book DC have print in the last 3 years, this and Wonder Woman Death Earth, so my hype levels for that film are beyond the moon.....pretty interesting in see the Weller show, the Lanterns show sounds soo much fun, and YES BUSTER GOLD, INJECT ME THAT NOW in my veins, and please make it right. Overall I'm positive now.........................but I'm concern with the casting, I hope we just stop doing the force diversity and gender and race swap thing Marvel have been doing, and James and his team just cast the actors that fit the role perfectly, stop race swapping characters no one ask for, that's all I hope so we can start this universe in the right step, right inspiration for books, very well rounded diverse list of establish characters, actors that embodied those characters perfectly, hopefully good writing and heart and cross fingers this be what DC need.
I remember watching the death of superman/reign of the Supermen animated movie and then immediately going to the library and trying to read the initial story
2 days late, but I’m interested in this line up. Also, glad to see that the line up will give recognition to the generally unknown characters outside of comics characters
I’m excited for this new direction. Exploring new properties and characters is so fun and fresh. Half the names announced made me go “who?” Which I LOVED! We’re seeing NEW STORIES!
Honestly the focus on Morrison with Batman kinda worries me because alot of the stuff feels like it made the "Batgod" a thing, where he could win ANYTHING againts ANYONE because he thinks of everything and can do everything because he's Batman. Also i hope Talia will be treated very differently because the run has been often critized for the racism and uncalled for changes like turning Damians birth from a consentual thing between two lovers (where Talia tricked Bruce into thinking she misscarried because she saw him loose focus because of her and the kid, so it was done out of love rather than just to trick him and make him leave) to drugging and rape. SO i am hoping for the movies to change Talia back to who she was before Morrison made her into a horrible mother and a rapist who's doing all this to have the perfect warrior as a child and to rule the world, because the original Birth of the Demon wasn't about that. So hopefuly she'll get treated right....also her, Ra's and Damian should be played by east asians (Damian by a mixed actor prefferably) rather than white washing them again.
I understand your concern. But I have a feeling James will change the Talia storyline. Judging by the movie title, there's no way they're going to bring up that rape plotline to a movie called "The Brave and The Bold" lol
I'm overall pretty excited about the announcements. The animation and shows being set in the same universe seems like they might be jumping the shark. While it might produce some interesting or een great media told in different formats, it could lead to some creative restrictions if they don't end up set under the elseworlds banner. I Imadgining that if they pushed for the main comics universe to be set in the same universe, there would be pushback, as they would be changing the contnuity of a source material and a long established cannon. Not saying its one to one, or that overlap between mediums is a bad thing, but I think its also good when they can explore wildly different tones (like with The Batman and what a Brave in the Bold movie with inspirations from the Morrison run might look like), or even completly seperate and not overlapping continuities taking inspiration from each other (Such as how The Batman took inspiration from not just various comics but spesifically The Arkham games and The Animated Series). And DC only relatively recently realaunched their main animated movie universe from the new 52 inspired one to the 'tomorrowverse' which seems to be a spin on modern dc with some elements from Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier. That animated movie universe is pretty new and only a few movies in. It has some good stuff going on, but it doesn't seem like it would fit with a continuity where they're introductin the characters in a spesific way. It might have to be under the elseworlds banner, but that might also be weird if they have two movie universes with relaunches around the same time Also, it might be troubling if they're planning on having the live action actors do VA work. I'm sure many of them are very talented, and some of them will do decent jobs with their voice, and voice acting and on screen acting havle some overlap, but they aren't the same skill. Edit: also, its nice to see animation from dc is getting greenlit, as for it bit it seemed like its future from warner bros. after the discovery merger was shakey with a lot of animated work being cut from hbo max. Being in the same contiinuity as the live action stuff might be a way to legitimize their animation, not saying its necessary, just that they're showing that they can play on the same field. I'm also excited for Swamp thing, but I think it could work better as a semi-eposodic show instead of a movie
Speaking of Star Wars using different time periods to tell different but connected stories, DC should absolutely do that it has so many cool characters from different time periods I mean you got Vandal Savage, Jonah Hex, the Justice Society, Kamandi.
My main concerns are still the lack of clarity regarding the extent of this reboot, I agree they probably should've done a hard recast for all the characters that directly connected to the prior DC films, namely their Justice League, I just think that in principle if you're going to recast both Batman and Superman, recast everyone else. Things like Shazam and Peacemaker I think are separate enough to where they could still carry on, and as you said they also need to rebuild trust with us as a brand given how many cancelled projects there's been. That said they definitely hit a few key points for things I wanted to see. I'm super glad we aren't having a universe starting from scratch, it seems like very few of these projects will be origin stories, and we're getting things like multiple Green Lanterns and Batman with his fourth Robin, I'm very glad about that. I'm also glad we're getting a break away from some of the major DC heroes, sure we're getting another Batman and Superman, but seeing as they're the two central pillars of DC that makes sense to me, and Green Lantern's had time away from the general audience. The rest like Wonder Woman, the Flash and Aquaman I think are smart choices to not have featured heavily early on, granted I still feel a full recast would've been better, but as it stands I'll just wait and see. Things like The Authority, Booster Gold, and especially Creature Commandos and Swamp Thing I think are great choices, seeing as DC has plenty of disconnected darker horror type characters who work great in their own little corner, you don't need any Superman references in a Swamp Thing story. As much as I like Marvel, that universe is primarily comprised of superheroes, whereas DC has branched out a lot more with darker or more abstract ideas, and I'm glad they aren't overlooking that or holding off on it. I think that's a key feature that will differentiate them from Marvel and will help draw in a wider audience.
I truly hope that Gunn's DCU would also extend to other comic books outside of the superhero sphere. Swamp Thing is a good promise and it would be really nice if they give Spielberg that Blackhawk movie that's pretty much in development hell.
Star Wars as the basis for how the new dc is going is apt including their venture into connective animation and games. Besides there’s so many ways to explore the dc universe and while the video mentioned time being kinda stuck in modern day I raise that we have perfect ability to go to the far future of the 31st century or the distant past of the 19…50s? Whenever the golden age was. Plus we have Elsworlds which being told upfront that there will be things not connected mean that directors that want more freedom will have the opportunity as well as being able to deliver stories like so many famous comics that are able to stand on their own
I almost agree with your video, I like the idea of Gunn and Safran organizing with a lot of patience, for this new DCU. And what's more, I was curious, how they will do it, so that they connect with animation and video games in this DC cinematic universe in live action movies and live action TV series. Hopefully WAG will make a stylized 3D/2D animated feature film a la Spider Verse, Arcane or Puss in Boots 2. But there is one thing that this video does not convince me, and it is: do you think that Birds of Prey is a great movie and that ZSJL is a garbage movie? (I'm just asking you out of curiosity, nothing more).
About the whole Viola Davis/ Momoa, I think Aquaman will be a bit clearer on the whole reboot thing cause it already sounds and looks totally detatched from the Sniderverse and nobody cares about the Sniderverse anyway so the general audience don't really know about his continuity and will probably just enjoy the movie. Viola is too much a Nick Fury/General Ross thing in which sure, they appeared in AoS/Hulk but you don't really have to follow this characters everywhere as they serve this "government guy" purpose that doesn't require you to watch them all the time. So when she appears as the government woman in a JLA movie you will just assume "hey, government woman" and having watched her series or other movies will not really influence whatever she does there or will be too minor for us to really question it that deeply. Her series will be watched by people who understand this things, not by general audiences. She is too much of a side character for them to care if she was or wasn't in another movie that nobody liked or cared in the first place and I don't think many families watched TSS and Peacemaker to remember her from the only good things she was in
There's no reason to worry about an age difference between Superman and Batman. because there's no reason to believe the two movies will be set in the same timeframe.
What I got most from this video is that you don’t have an affinity for Green Arrow and don’t want James Gunn to provide you with anything relating to him 😂
I hope they copy this from the comics. Have batman in his 30s when he gets Dick and when he gets Damian and has been through Jason,Tim and Babra he's still 30 mean while they're all 20
I would love a Constantine movie. Keeping Keanu would be the best option for me but I also wouldn't mind that much if they casted another actor. I really need a Justice League Dark movie in my life.
I really don't like Keanu as Constantine. Especially if we're getting a fresh introduction he can't start off old, that would kinda ruin any opportunity of showing his story.
I hope the Amazons aren’t based on the bland New 52 Amazons who rape men. Post-Crisis Amazons by George Pérez or Historia Amazons by Kelly Sue should be the template for them and their stories
What was your favorite thing about the new DCU lineup? And don't worry, I'll be going in depth with these projects and talking about specifically what I want to see and what I would do with them in the future, so be sure not to miss that!
You think we'll see Krypto in the Supergirl movie
It's gonna be so sick to see a Batman and Superman movie come out in the same year or within a year of each other
chances of you doing a Black Adam 2?
@@boneestampado4188 why? It's not gonna happen so what's the point
Pretty interesting slate, I'm looking forward to Booster Gold and the Batman Brave and the Bold.
As someone who is a massive horror movie fan and having read an obscene amount of Swamp Thing comics in middle school, I absolutely cannot wait to see what they do with the character and his supporting cast like Anton Arcane. Mega hype
God we can only hope they adapt the rot storyline from the new 52 with swamp thing and animal man vs arcane
@Spam Apricot Swamp Thing was one of the better handled characters during the new 52, deadass.
Swamp thing is so underrated. And so is blue beetle and booster gold which is why I'm so happy they're getting their own projects and bringing them into the spotlight
I'm just hyped for some environmental themes tbh, that's half of why I love Swamp Thing as a character.
What truly amazes me about James Gunn's DCU slate is how much passion and love for the comics James Gunn has the comics and for so many of these characters, to the point that, as you said, countless copies of these comic book source materials got sold out, which is insane. I have a lot of faith in James and Peter Safran's 8-10 year plan as this is DC's last chance to make a comeback for the better and with actual throughout the planning and new direction.
I have a lot of ideas and hopes for what we could see in the long-term future of the DCU such as a Green Lantern film franchise/saga, a Question tv series, a New Gods show/film, a Green Arrow & Black Canary series/film, a Zatanna film, a Teen Titans film etc...
Even though I do have some small concerns and queries such as whether this reboot will be a soft or full reboot, how soon will it be until we hopefully see recast versions of characters like Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, also the aforementioned age gap between Batman and Superman, why to start with Daimian (even though do like Damian), what will it be like to bring in actors for both animation and live-action, etc...?
But all and all I am still hyped to hopefully see a bright future for DC
I think Superman will be mid 20s while Batman is early to mid 30s.
A animated Teen Titans movie made with care and creativity that understands the potential of animation like Puss N Boots The Last Wish or Spider-Verse would go so unbelievably hard!
I agree, having watched both the live action and animated shows it could make DC hit a milestone.
Most definitely, but I wanna see it in live-action. Either way, I'm up for a new Teen Titans movie and hopefully set in James Gunn's DC Universe
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John Constantine's first appearance was in The Swamp Thing. So if James used this to introduce my man then it would be the perfect set up for the Justice League Dark.
I would LOVE to see Troy tackle a Green Arrow story. I love both Green Arrow and Troy, so that'll be a match in heaven for me
Troyoboyo17 in a few weeks: Lets talk about my idea for a Green Arrow movie, Green Arrow: Emerald Archer.
Predition much?
My only real concern has to do with the Batfamily. Tim is my favorite DC character, and skipping to Damian doesn't sound good for him. I'm hoping they don't erase him (as happens too often), but even if he is part of it, the start of his story-his foundation-is part of what makes him such a great character. He's the kind of character who would NEED a prequel, and I'm not confident that would happen. Everything else sounds great though. I would love to see Lanterns pulling from GL/GA. Another character I'd love to see is Etrigan in Swamp Thing.
I'm hoping Tim is current robin when batman finds out about Damian. I don't think it will happen though sadly. I NEED red robin in live action
I liked Tim but honestly I don't want him to be in as he will most likely be like the recent version of him and not the 2000s version that's actually good
It also erases redhood
@@COOLERthenU Red Hood could still exist.
I hope we get a Zantanna project in chapter 2. I was really hoping for her to get a project in chapter 1
Remember this was only part of chapter one 😀
this was only like a 1/3 of slate 1, a zatanna project will probably be happening soon
I am really hoping that they do keep some things separate. Very skeptical of the games carrying over actors and keeping continuity. I feel like having rocksteadys Arkham franchise doing it’s own thing while Nolans Batman/DCEU was coming out and acting as a BTAS spiritual successor was inspired and I hope we don’t lose the charm of the creativity that is inherent from the different mediums adapting the same IP. Give us those movies and give us entirely different games with expressive artstyles, new stories and engaging gameplay 🙏
thats what else world is for
Gunn said the Arkhamverse isn't finished so we could still get seperate games that aren't in the same continuity as the DCU.
Something I really hope for is a World’s Finest movie. We need the connection between Batman/Superman to be made before joining the league.
*I feel like The Green Lantern Series* should be like Serpico or Batman Year One… in the sense that these “Fish out of water” cops are sent to work with a police force on Earth (because the series is set on Earth) to solve an obviously extra-terrestrial crime.. and along the way they realise the police department is corrupt and it’s like this silent game of weeding out the bad cops and who can be trusted 🤷🏾♂️
That could really work. I'm really excited to finally see Green Lantern again in live action and I'm happy they're using both John and Hal hopefully they can equally flesh out both their characters and introduce a great dynamic between the two Hal being the action first, courageous, instinctual GL and John the no-nonsense, humble, dutiful GL. I also hope they take inspiration from films like Training Day especially if we see Sinestro who is a really underrated DC villain and Gl's best/biggest villain, I hope they introduce him as a GL first, then explore his character and dynamic with Hal to flesh out his philosophy and perspective on keeping order through fear, making a Shakespear character of sorts that we see fall to villainy.
I've quite literally written down 6 film scripts for what I've mapped out to be a saga of GL epic sci-fi films if the series is successful enough to warrant a live-action sci-fi film, which I passionately believe the character deserves, as Green Lantern is, in fact, DC's Star Wars and should be the same treatment for live action. I've got castings, storyboards and my own personal ideas and sketches that I one day plan to pitch on UA-cam and who knows maybe James Gunn could see it which would literally be a dream come true.
@@milkiassamuel780 Sinestro: Gorilla Grodd ain't got shit on me!
@@dimitrescu182 I could honestly see him doing that. That would be hilarious
it could be sorta like green lantern earth one to where they made the guardians villains which yeah i like that
@@jadenbryant9283 Interesting idea, I mean the Guardians (except for Ganthed) are honestly villains themselves so I could see that being the case. I haven't read the Earth One book in a while so I'll have to reread them someday.
I have been working on a 6-film script for a Green Lantern film saga pitch and I have castings, draft scripts and my own ideas for an entire saga following the Emerald Knights.
I also fore-shadow Blackest Night as a two-part end to this saga (I have an entire saga pitch written be-low) I thoroughly believe with real passion and vision Green Lantern could become DC's Star Wars. I hope to share my film pitches someday on UA-cam as well.
*Film 1: Green Lantern: First Flight:* - Hal Jordan's origin, meeting an emotional turmoil Hal Jordan may be cocky but fails to express his emotions after the same circumstances with his mother dying from cancer and Hal feeling emotionally responsible, in addition to coming to terms with his complicated feelings of losing both his father and now the fear and loss he has about losing his mother, but he also needs to accept his emotions and express his fears if he wants to grow. He also has problems with expressing his feelings towards Carol Ferris (his boss), who begins the film as someone who's wise to Hal's cocky macho-man bravado and doesn't fall for it, but when he eventually does share how much he hates himself, and how much he's truly scared about letting others down just like he blames himself for his father and mothers death, that why he goes head first into action to compensate for his own inner hatred and guilt. I also want to ground this story for the first half, and later explore the GLC in the second act with Abin crash-ing into Earth and Hal taking up the mantle as Green Lantern, where he is also partnered up with Sinestro, explores Oa and meets the Guardians and all kinds of GL members/aliens like Tomar Rae, Ch'p, Boodika, Kilowog who gives him a hard time as a trainee calling him a "Poozer" but soon grows to like Hal for his natural instincts with danger. Sinestro is still in mourning after learning about Abin's death, and though he hides his distaste for Hal as Abin's successor, he soon learns to open himself up to Hal and accept him as a partner while simultaneously teasing his own inner hatred for the Guardians and their hypocrisy/bureaucratic op-position to handling intergalactic threats. The villain in this film would be Krona and The Man-hunters, who act as a direct personification of cold emotionless machines that the Guardians first used, and Krona would act in his own quest to get revenge on the Guardians for banishing him, even though my take on Krona was banished only because he wanted to explore what existed outside of the universe, the rest of the Guardians opposed his actions with no legitimate justification, thus allowing Krona to activate a failsafe in the Manhunters to go rogue years ago. After millennia of unjust banishment, Krona returns to get even and reactivates the Manhunters to take out the Corps. Hal and Sinestro together, in a 'Training Day'-Esque premise, act to stop him and Krona acts as a dark reflection of Hal and his natural instincts and dis-taste of authority, when Krona went against unjust authority he was punished, just as Hal has over the years and Krona tries to persuade him, but Hal learns to overcome his inner hatred and fear of letting overs down as he's learnt throughout the film to embrace his emotions and accept his fears and insecurities, working alongside Sinestro they defeat Krona and The Man-hunters, Hal is respected amongst GLC/Oa and amongst Sinestro, Hal comes to terms with his insecurities and learns to make peace with the loss of his parents and discovers a new purpose in life, while opening himself up to Carol (teasing their eventual romance). Furthermore, we would reveal at the end that the Guardians secretly knew about the Manhunters yet do not share their connections with any GL, and it is only when Krona tells Sinestro about how the Manhunters were created by the Guardians and killed millions, especially Sector 666, only then does Sinestro feel betrayed by his Corps and beliefs thus forcing Sinestro to make it seem that Krona committed suicide when really he killed himself with a ring and began devising a plan to end the injustice teasing his downfall. Post credit scene also teases John Stewart and Atrocitus.
*Film 2: Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns* :- introduce Atrocitus and the Red Lanterns as new Lantern factions, acting rebellious vigilantes against the Guardians as Atrocitus much like the comic is burdened by the loss of his family and people under the Man-hunters and blames the Guardians, as he learnt that they were responsible from the time he was with the Five Inversions (hypothetically explored in a Green Lantern anthology show). Atrocitus forms the Red Lanterns to kill members of the GLC to get closer to Oa. Hal and Sinestro are introduced to new Lanterns John Stewart and Guy Gardener, and with Kilowog and Tomar's help they separate into teams to stop the Red Lanterns. Hal also learns to accept new allies and has to deal with Carol Ferris being taken over by the Star Sapphires/Zamarons who left the Guardians to create the Star Sapphire Corps of love. Essentially revolving around a theme of accepting love and not hatred. We also have Sinestro reveal the lies the Guardians have been hiding about the Manhunters and Ganthet takes full responsibility as he and another Guardian Sayd admit to their actions, feeling nothing but guilt and shame. The Guardians are forced to banish Ganthet as well after he opens up about the truth and they discover his experiments to use the blue light of 'hope' as a power source. Luckily Sayd gives Ganthed the means to activate the blue light initiative to depower all Red Lanterns. Sinestro at the end of the film betrays Hal and reveals how he has been using the Weaponeers of Qward to create his own Lantern ring and use prisoners from Oa's science cells to form an entire army of prisoners to go against the GLC after the years of lies and hypocrisy that Guardians have hidden, which is further personified by Atrocitus and his pure rage filled hatred as he wishes to die in peace knowing he's gotten his revenge for his family and people. Hal is utterly mortified by Sinestro's betrayal and doesn't want to fight his friend despite Sinestro also not wanting to fight Hal he knows that he must do this in order to truly allow his perception of true peace to prosper in the universe as it will be governed by fear since the will is not enough to keep people like Atrocitus at bay, especially if they can create their own power rings. Sinestro is forced to subdue and badly injure Hal, while also revealing Boodika switched sides after Sinestro revealed the truth to her, releasing all the prisoners to become Yellow Lanterns. Hal is speechless at his friend's betrayal and badly injured. Then the film cuts to black. Also, tease Saint Walker.
*Film 3: Green Lantern: Fear* - adapting Sinestro Corps War
*Film 4: Green Lantern: Agent Orange*
*Film 5: Green Lantern: Blackest Night Part 1* - I plan to have my take on Willian Hand introduced in Film 5, but also teased in Film 1, in Film 5 he would actually be friends with Kyle Rayner, be college roommates, and show how much Kyle cares for William as a friend. My take on William Hand would be in his early/mid 20's and be a mentally struggling/suicidally depressed person as he has struggled with hearing voices of the dead his entire life, and has been thought of as mentally ill by his family, acting as the black sheep of the Hand family, isolated by his brothers and emotionally disregarded by his parents, who have treated him with cold, controlling discontent as they see him as a failure, leaving William to be emotionally alone his whole life until Kyle treats him like a real person, giving William compassion. In Film 5 I would begin the Blackest Night by having it centred around all the Earth GLs (Hal, John, Guy and Kyle) attempting to save William Hand from Sinestro and Atrocitus from working together to try and kill William to prevent the Blackest Night as he is destined to unleash Nekron. Not only that but The Guardians would also order Green Lanterns from all sectors to hunt down William Hand as they too are terrified by the Blackest Night (The Guardians as hypocrites to their code) thus creating massive tension and conflict throughout the Corps. It all being a race to save this one guy to prevent the Blackest Night, and it also tackles concepts and questions that even Hal and John struggle with, is one life worth saving when the universe is at stake, is killing William really the right option, especially if has suicidal tendencies?
*Film 6: Green Lantern: Blackest Night Part 2*
Speaking of Gods and Monsters, I really enjoyed that animated film from 2015. You know, the one with Dexter Morgan as Batman?
Yeah, that film was so much fun, and really unique and bold. Kirk Langstrom as a vampire Batman is such a cool idea and that film Superman is also such an interesting take on the character without having the go down the typical evil Superman trope.
hernan guerra as lor zod is such a compelling version of superman, he’s not evil but much more pragmatic than clark kent woods ever be
That animated film was awesome 👏
If swamp thing is actually a horror film I’ll be their opening week no matter what.
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I doubt this new DCU will take over everything because we’re still going to get individual projects that are under the name DC Elseworlds, which is what they should’ve been doing from the beginning. I also like how they’re using names from the comics like Gods and Monsters as well as Elseworlds, two popular titles from DC Comics.
I NEED Plastic Man to get the love and respect he deserves. He can apparently go toe to toe with Superman and is immune to Martian Manhunter’s telepathy. Batman classifies him as one of the most dangerous humans alive
Boy, was the belief that Momoa’s Aquaman sticking with the DCU age like spoiled milk lol
Why? What happened?
@NickWhite-fw7dx I don’t think he is part of this new universe anymore.
Im very excited to see what they do with the less anticipated projects like Waller and Creature Commandos. Also we NEED a Batman Beyond project as an elseworld project
I believe in James Gunn.
Overall I'm super excited about all of this, BUT I'm very very nervous about The Authority movie. I feel like it would be so easy for it to become just "The Boys but DC" when it's so much more complex than that. The Boys is about corporate greed and capitalism corrupting super-powered people which is great in its own right. But The Authority is about the inherent power and authority that comes with superhuman abilities and their relationship to the state and the conflict between institutional authority versus superhuman authority.
4:19 Same. But Gunn did tweet that Green Arrow is one of his favorite heroes. So chances are they have something planned for him.
What if instead of a green arrow movie, it was a show with a darker, more Batman like take that cuts out his personality. You could call it arrow or something
The darker take would’ve been cool in the show - if they didn’t just pulling from Batman’s mythos than Green Arrow’s
I’m super excited for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe. Their comics inspirations to adapt the stories to film and TV (Live action and animated) makes so hopeful and optimistic about the future. I’m curious to see how the video games will be handled tho 🤔
I want to see etrigan in the universe soon
stuff like teen titans and static need movies bro. i dont think they realize how popular a well made teen titans live action movie would be
Love your vids dude, the chill vibe is appreciated 😎
I really want to see a pre-write on a Green Arrow movie.
I love this and can't wait to see swamp thing in as well others
James took a massive L with dc gaming tbh. Mans want to make the games and the films take place in the same universe and in doing that, the developers have no room to breath and make original stories.
Yeah the idea that the games are also going to connect to the DCU weirds me out. I was thinking it could be like mobile games or small AA titles but if he wants to have AAA games connected then woof good luck with that
But there is the DC elseworld
2 words. Star. Wars.
They’ve been making games connected to the movies for decades. You gotta start thinking of a cinematic universe in the means of Star Wars than Marvel, because that’s what James is going for.
He’s not necessarily trying to connect the games & films, rather he is trying to create/forge a multiverse of sorts! 😄
I don't think they're going to really be connected, James did say you don't need to play any dc games to understand more
I think he might wants to see a Green Arrow movie announced.
Your editing just keeps getting better and better
some DC ideas that I would pay all my life savings to see on screen:
-Wally west, as long as they take more inspiration from Young Justice than the Flash tv show .KF's suit in The flash in my opinion is overdesigned, and while I don't mind the change in skin tone, I also don't think the hairstyle worked for the suit
-clayface. One of my favorite rouges in Batman's gallery. specifically Ethan bennet. He is my favorite clayface and It would cause some issues if Damien tried to dismember him, or hurt him a lot as he was once Bruce's friend
- a storyline either involving Jason Todd or Jimmy Olsen. More of Jimmy because I don't remember a good adaptation of Jimmy. He could be like, Superman's healer or something and constantly joke about how Lois loves superman and Clark loves Lois and somehow reveal his Identity to Lex Luthor or anything
-Let some of the experienced hero's rouges be gone. Have Ra's dead or have Cheetah in custody or captain cold avenging his sister like injustice and protecting Central city while Flash is out of town. Have Lobo paid off to not come to earth on bounties. It would be cool to have a world that actually has events and has people that rise and fall. Heck I wouldn't mind If They start with heroes gone and have others gone trying to find them. It would be world building.
Damn that’s a beautiful mustache you should be in a van handing candy out to kids!👨🏻🦰🍭
I think Green Arrow: Year One could adapt into a movie really well. And it could really stand apart from other superhero movies with its focus on survival
Creature commandos looks awesome. It looks like they got the same animation group for Gorrilaz
They better add Kite-Man at some point.
Literally subscribing off of the passion for green arrow alone, easily one of the best heroes out there and my absolute favorite
i don’t know why i don’t get notis for you vids i love your channel
I would be shocked if we don't get Red Hood in the DCU eventually, that character is right up Gunn's alley.
just read supergirl woman of tomorrow because of the announcement. genuinely moving
MARTIAN MANHUNTER IN THE JL LINEUP PLEASE JAMES
I’m really excited for this new DC Universe! I’m really happy that we are getting the Bat-Family & this new universe has a chance to be better then the MCU if they do it right!
Personally I feel like they should hold off on the Justice League until chapter 2 of the universe & have the next chapter that being chapter 2 should revolve around Heroes & Vigilantes. Lastly by the end of chapter 2 I would really like to have the line up be John Stewart, Super Man, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Shiera Hall & even Martian Manhunter! (Basically the Animated universe version which I love to death 😁) Also, as much as I like Darkseid I believe they should hold off on him and instead have the League fight the Legion of Doom or something! I just love DC & comics in general so this is what I would honestly want out of the DCU in the future 🙏
(Side Note; DC comics has a really big theme of Gods trying to be humans and what not, so I think a way to do this would be to take inspiration from the Cadmus Arc in Justice League Unlimited which is hands down one of my favorite Justice League stories ever! So taking inspiration off that and maybe even pulling another Justice League Unlimited by slowly building up the team over time would be incredible! This could also work to show how dangerous Darkseid is when he eventually comes into play with all the heroes and maybe even villains having to work together in order to stop him!)
I love all of your ideas and absolutely agree with them. I'm so excited to see James Gunn's long-term future planned out of the DCU, and I'm very excited about a lot of these projects, you really feel how passionate James feels about these characters and stories. Also love your idea to name Chapter 2: Heroes & Vigilantes. I also agree that instead of building Darkseid up too soon as a JL villain like Thanos for the Avengers, they should rather use Darkseid in small appearances and explore his character in something like a New God's project or a Mister Miracle project (especially Tom King's run which is absolutely pheromonal and coined the term "Darkseid Is"), use Draksied more as an omnipotent force of evil, than a villain, or at least not so soon. BTW I am also so glad there finally taking inspiration from the DCAU and other DC animated media, I also hope they bring in legends like Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Mark Waid, Grant Morrison etc... to act as executive producers and writers of these projects.
I also had an idea that the films that introduce potential members for the DCU Justice League, these films could introduce potential members for the DCU Legion of Doom, which would be built up as the big threat of the DCU and act as an almost twisted build-up and hype technique that was used when the first Avengers was being built up back in the day.
@@milkiassamuel780 I loved reading about your amazing ideas & I’ve got to say that I completely agree! Again the idea of Chapter 2 being “Heroes & Vigilantes” would help to establish the heroes & also bring forth more of a focus on the heroes which would lead up to the Justice Leagues formation and the Heroes all coming together! The vigilante aspect I included because if they are going to tackle things like the Bat-Family or Teen Titans in the movies or even shows it would be cool to include & flesh out characters like Deathstroke or Red-Hood which is mainly one of the characters that made me think of Chapter 2 focusing on Heroes & Vigilantes!
Also, coming off of Chapter 1 Thai was an idea I didn’t mention but the idea of also fleshing out characters that are indirectly involved with monsters, that being magic users! Characters like Zatana & Dr. Fate representing that Hero aspect & maybe even Constantine & Etreigan kinda acting like Vigilantes of some sort potentially building up to a Justice League Dark down the line 👀
(Side Note; Seeing how much James Gunn loves bringing in obscure & not very well-known characters would work really well if he eventually brings the Justice League Dark storyline & characters together! It could help to show fans many fan favorite characters like Constantine, Zatana, & Etreigan finally onto the big screen, maybe even introducing audiences to characters like Spector, Gray Ghost, Dead-Man, & even Detective Chimp! Exploring magic in the DCU would be like a dream & honestly I feel like that could be a really good idea for them to take into account when eventually bringing in magic to the universe!)
Drew Goddard NEEDS to do all the Bat-Family projects.
Please make a pitch for Brave And The Bold
One of the things I actually LOVE about the announcement is that these adaptations are directed inspired by specific comics like Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow....I love that because is exactly what the DC early animated films did to perfection (before they start adapting the stupid new 52 crap), those films are some of the pure best comicbook adaptations made and is sad they never get brought to the conversation because they are ANIMATED and as we animation fans know very well general audiences always assume animated means for KIDS, and that just flat ignorant and wrong....so if these films will take that approach, I'm all forward to...also Woman of Tomorrow is my favorite book DC have print in the last 3 years, this and Wonder Woman Death Earth, so my hype levels for that film are beyond the moon.....pretty interesting in see the Weller show, the Lanterns show sounds soo much fun, and YES BUSTER GOLD, INJECT ME THAT NOW in my veins, and please make it right. Overall I'm positive now.........................but I'm concern with the casting, I hope we just stop doing the force diversity and gender and race swap thing Marvel have been doing, and James and his team just cast the actors that fit the role perfectly, stop race swapping characters no one ask for, that's all I hope so we can start this universe in the right step, right inspiration for books, very well rounded diverse list of establish characters, actors that embodied those characters perfectly, hopefully good writing and heart and cross fingers this be what DC need.
hope to see Zatanna!
I remember watching the death of superman/reign of the Supermen animated movie and then immediately going to the library and trying to read the initial story
2 days late, but I’m interested in this line up. Also, glad to see that the line up will give recognition to the generally unknown characters outside of comics characters
I’m excited for The Authority movie!
Troy should do a video on what they want to see from Superman: Legacy by James Gunn
Just noticed the Zuko‘s mask in the background, love it
I’m excited for this new direction. Exploring new properties and characters is so fun and fresh. Half the names announced made me go “who?” Which I LOVED! We’re seeing NEW STORIES!
I would love a Static Shock film or even a Question film with a noir style
i think question could actually be a show
Honestly the focus on Morrison with Batman kinda worries me because alot of the stuff feels like it made the "Batgod" a thing, where he could win ANYTHING againts ANYONE because he thinks of everything and can do everything because he's Batman. Also i hope Talia will be treated very differently because the run has been often critized for the racism and uncalled for changes like turning Damians birth from a consentual thing between two lovers (where Talia tricked Bruce into thinking she misscarried because she saw him loose focus because of her and the kid, so it was done out of love rather than just to trick him and make him leave) to drugging and rape.
SO i am hoping for the movies to change Talia back to who she was before Morrison made her into a horrible mother and a rapist who's doing all this to have the perfect warrior as a child and to rule the world, because the original Birth of the Demon wasn't about that. So hopefuly she'll get treated right....also her, Ra's and Damian should be played by east asians (Damian by a mixed actor prefferably) rather than white washing them again.
I understand your concern. But I have a feeling James will change the Talia storyline. Judging by the movie title, there's no way they're going to bring up that rape plotline to a movie called "The Brave and The Bold" lol
@@abitsourrrrsorry4885 Hopefuly you're right
this exactly one of my main worries is they're gonna make talia super evil and one dimensional fingers crossed they dont
I hate when bruce is super overpowered I prefer the more grounded actual detective-like stories as opposed to him being god
I’m exited for Booster Gold. That’s all.
I mean, I would love to see you tackle Green Arrow
best part is batman and robin
and friends
finally
I'm overall pretty excited about the announcements.
The animation and shows being set in the same universe seems like they might be jumping the shark. While it might produce some interesting or een great media told in different formats, it could lead to some creative restrictions if they don't end up set under the elseworlds banner. I Imadgining that if they pushed for the main comics universe to be set in the same universe, there would be pushback, as they would be changing the contnuity of a source material and a long established cannon. Not saying its one to one, or that overlap between mediums is a bad thing, but I think its also good when they can explore wildly different tones (like with The Batman and what a Brave in the Bold movie with inspirations from the Morrison run might look like), or even completly seperate and not overlapping continuities taking inspiration from each other (Such as how The Batman took inspiration from not just various comics but spesifically The Arkham games and The Animated Series).
And DC only relatively recently realaunched their main animated movie universe from the new 52 inspired one to the 'tomorrowverse' which seems to be a spin on modern dc with some elements from Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier. That animated movie universe is pretty new and only a few movies in. It has some good stuff going on, but it doesn't seem like it would fit with a continuity where they're introductin the characters in a spesific way. It might have to be under the elseworlds banner, but that might also be weird if they have two movie universes with relaunches around the same time
Also, it might be troubling if they're planning on having the live action actors do VA work. I'm sure many of them are very talented, and some of them will do decent jobs with their voice, and voice acting and on screen acting havle some overlap, but they aren't the same skill.
Edit: also, its nice to see animation from dc is getting greenlit, as for it bit it seemed like its future from warner bros. after the discovery merger was shakey with a lot of animated work being cut from hbo max. Being in the same contiinuity as the live action stuff might be a way to legitimize their animation, not saying its necessary, just that they're showing that they can play on the same field.
I'm also excited for Swamp thing, but I think it could work better as a semi-eposodic show instead of a movie
a swamp thing movie based on alan moores run would actually make me bust
something that made me super excited is that I'm pretty sure Gunn said he was inspidered by Young Justice so I'm praying for a season 5 renewel
I LOVE THE LINEUP
I hope we see Krypto and Ace in the dcu
I can’t wait for these films and I trust Gunn and his leadership!
Manhunter was on the authority during the new 52 (rebranded stormwatch) so I'm hoping they introduce him there
I’m more excited now 🎉
This Chapter really could use more Batman idk
Speaking of Star Wars using different time periods to tell different but connected stories, DC should absolutely do that it has so many cool characters from different time periods I mean you got Vandal Savage, Jonah Hex, the Justice Society, Kamandi.
Some facts.
My main concerns are still the lack of clarity regarding the extent of this reboot, I agree they probably should've done a hard recast for all the characters that directly connected to the prior DC films, namely their Justice League, I just think that in principle if you're going to recast both Batman and Superman, recast everyone else. Things like Shazam and Peacemaker I think are separate enough to where they could still carry on, and as you said they also need to rebuild trust with us as a brand given how many cancelled projects there's been.
That said they definitely hit a few key points for things I wanted to see. I'm super glad we aren't having a universe starting from scratch, it seems like very few of these projects will be origin stories, and we're getting things like multiple Green Lanterns and Batman with his fourth Robin, I'm very glad about that.
I'm also glad we're getting a break away from some of the major DC heroes, sure we're getting another Batman and Superman, but seeing as they're the two central pillars of DC that makes sense to me, and Green Lantern's had time away from the general audience. The rest like Wonder Woman, the Flash and Aquaman I think are smart choices to not have featured heavily early on, granted I still feel a full recast would've been better, but as it stands I'll just wait and see. Things like The Authority, Booster Gold, and especially Creature Commandos and Swamp Thing I think are great choices, seeing as DC has plenty of disconnected darker horror type characters who work great in their own little corner, you don't need any Superman references in a Swamp Thing story.
As much as I like Marvel, that universe is primarily comprised of superheroes, whereas DC has branched out a lot more with darker or more abstract ideas, and I'm glad they aren't overlooking that or holding off on it. I think that's a key feature that will differentiate them from Marvel and will help draw in a wider audience.
I don’t think you need to be worried about Green Arrow when Gunn has said Oliver is one of his favorites at DC
Super excited!
I truly hope that Gunn's DCU would also extend to other comic books outside of the superhero sphere. Swamp Thing is a good promise and it would be really nice if they give Spielberg that Blackhawk movie that's pretty much in development hell.
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Star Wars as the basis for how the new dc is going is apt including their venture into connective animation and games.
Besides there’s so many ways to explore the dc universe and while the video mentioned time being kinda stuck in modern day I raise that we have perfect ability to go to the far future of the 31st century or the distant past of the 19…50s? Whenever the golden age was.
Plus we have Elsworlds which being told upfront that there will be things not connected mean that directors that want more freedom will have the opportunity as well as being able to deliver stories like so many famous comics that are able to stand on their own
sounds like you wanna do a "My Pitch For a Green Arrow" video.... i'd be down.
this guy might be oliver queen not sure though
I love Green Arrow, out of curiosity, do you plan on making a Green Arrow movie pitch video on the future?
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Does anyone realise that everything before the Sueprman movie was already in active development before Gunn was appointed to the role?
Would love a Martian man hunter tv show…..I first didn’t like this lineup but I’m warming up 2 it
It isn’t a “younger” Superman it’s a younger actor to play superman
Finally Another Green Arrow fan who understands my pain
I almost agree with your video, I like the idea of Gunn and Safran organizing with a lot of patience, for this new DCU. And what's more, I was curious, how they will do it, so that they connect with animation and video games in this DC cinematic universe in live action movies and live action TV series.
Hopefully WAG will make a stylized 3D/2D animated feature film a la Spider Verse, Arcane or Puss in Boots 2.
But there is one thing that this video does not convince me, and it is: do you think that Birds of Prey is a great movie and that ZSJL is a garbage movie? (I'm just asking you out of curiosity, nothing more).
About the whole Viola Davis/ Momoa, I think Aquaman will be a bit clearer on the whole reboot thing cause it already sounds and looks totally detatched from the Sniderverse and nobody cares about the Sniderverse anyway so the general audience don't really know about his continuity and will probably just enjoy the movie.
Viola is too much a Nick Fury/General Ross thing in which sure, they appeared in AoS/Hulk but you don't really have to follow this characters everywhere as they serve this "government guy" purpose that doesn't require you to watch them all the time. So when she appears as the government woman in a JLA movie you will just assume "hey, government woman" and having watched her series or other movies will not really influence whatever she does there or will be too minor for us to really question it that deeply. Her series will be watched by people who understand this things, not by general audiences. She is too much of a side character for them to care if she was or wasn't in another movie that nobody liked or cared in the first place and I don't think many families watched TSS and Peacemaker to remember her from the only good things she was in
There's no reason to worry about an age difference between Superman and Batman. because there's no reason to believe the two movies will be set in the same timeframe.
i think that superman and batman have a close age. probably the superman movie will be an flashback, just like de wonder woman movie
The sandman got greenlit for a second season so I don't think he'll be crossing over.
I would like to lead w/ The Batman as a new universe. It makes more sense w/ Clark being younger.
What I got most from this video is that you don’t have an affinity for Green Arrow and don’t want James Gunn to provide you with anything relating to him 😂
I hope they copy this from the comics. Have batman in his 30s when he gets Dick and when he gets Damian and has been through Jason,Tim and Babra he's still 30 mean while they're all 20
I would love a Constantine movie. Keeping Keanu would be the best option for me but I also wouldn't mind that much if they casted another actor. I really need a Justice League Dark movie in my life.
I really don't like Keanu as Constantine. Especially if we're getting a fresh introduction he can't start off old, that would kinda ruin any opportunity of showing his story.
I really wish this is a full reboot instead of a soft one.
It is a full reboot.
If Ezra miller is still the flash then all of my hope for this Dcu is gone
nah wb definitely won’t bring them back lmao
He never said super man was going to be young so lets see maybe Jonathan might be in it
@troyoboyo17 how would you feel about Joel McHale as Green Arrow?
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It is a bat-family movie, not a Batman movie. It is called The Brave and The Bold not Batman: The Brave and The Bold
I hope the Amazons aren’t based on the bland New 52 Amazons who rape men. Post-Crisis Amazons by George Pérez or Historia Amazons by Kelly Sue should be the template for them and their stories
Do you want a real Green Arrow movie or a CW type of Green Arrow where he’s basically Batman but in a green hood.
5:15 lmao it's funny u say that All Star Superman should be taught in schools because I have to read it for my college religion class
love your videos
Troy prewrite a Nightwing movie challenge
I’m with u I need something green arrow