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The DC Comics TV & Movie Thread - A Thread for Talking about Detective Comics Comics Television Shows and Movies

Adrenaline

Post Reader
(He/Him)
Your corporate restructuring is going really well when your competition is publicly making fun of you
 

Rascally Badger

El Capitan de la outro espacio
(He/Him)
If you want to see something especially stupid, check out the twitter hashtag 'batmangate'. Former occasional superhero artist Chris Wozniak has a story to tell. Back in 2008 he sent the producer of the Batman movies his wholly original script for a new Batman movie. And then just like that, 15 years later that producer and Matt Reeves stole that unsolicited script and made The Batman. They stole his breakthrough idea, that Batman fight the Riddler in a movie, something that had definitely never happened before. So he has set up a gofundme for $3 million so he can get properly compensated. Not for a lawsuit, he just wants people to give him 3 million dollars.
 

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
Technically, The Sandman is a Detective Comics comic. I finished watching the show adaptation of it just now, and I must say: I think that they did a good job remaining true to the spirit of the source material, and that they produce some good television episodes. I hope that they get to make more.
 

Positronic Brain

Out Of Warranty
(He/him)
Technically, The Sandman is a Detective Comics comic. I finished watching the show adaptation of it just now, and I must say: I think that they did a good job remaining true to the spirit of the source material, and that they produce some good television episodes. I hope that they get to make more.
You mean "Detective Comics show"? Because the comic's early issues were firmly rooted in DC continuity, and one of the main antagonists started as Steve Trevor's and Wonder Woman's daughter from Earth Two. I am enjoying seeing the series file away the references to the DCU at large while still winking at the viewer.

Where do I write to have Damian Thewlis fully canonized as Doctor Destiny in the next JLA movie?
 

Sprite

(He/Him/His)
🎶We live in a society

But baby it feels like it’s just you and me
🎶

Harley Quinn seriously just did a reverse Killing Joke. Holy freaking crap, this show.
 
I would put Young Justice in that camp as well (Which recently got confirmed was being cancelled, RIP) but yeah, Harley Quinn is definitely some of the best DC Comics stuff made in a long-ass time. In any medium. With the way WBD has been treating its shows and properties, I half expect it to just disappear at any time, so make sure y'all are watching it while you can.

This week's episode, I'm pretty sure I woke up my whole household because of how hard I was laughing. Haven't laughed that hard at anything in a long time. Alan Tudyk is a national treasure.
 
YJ coming back from cancellation once already was a blessing, so this doesn't sting as bad. But it still sucks and shows how much WBD has no idea what it's doing. Especially when S4 might have been the best season yet, and the teases for S5 really had me looking forward to where they were going.
 

YangusKhan

does the Underpants Dance
(He/Him/His)
I don't understand the implications of this decision. Does it mean it's no longer an exclusive to HBO Max? It's not going to be on HBO Max at all?
 

Daikaiju

Rated Ages 6+
(He, Him)
FazLIufWAAAazy8
 
I don't understand the implications of this decision. Does it mean it's no longer an exclusive to HBO Max? It's not going to be on HBO Max at all?
It means it's basically dead. HBO Max was the one funding its production, and also the best natural home for a project like this. They'd need some other WBD subsidiary to pick it up and fund its production out of their own budgets, and the likelihood of that happening is pretty much nil with Zaslav tightening the purse string across the board.
 
So to be totally fair, the showrunners could be allowed by WBD to shop it to competitors like Amazon, Netflix, etc the way that shows like Sandman were optioned off pre-HBO Max. But I have very strong doubts they'll do that because it makes no sense to just gift one of your most valuable intellectual properties to one of your direct competitors. But who knows, Zaslav isn't exactly working through this entire process rationally/intelligently to begin with.
 
Not just the demographics, but the budget doesn't fit either. CN originals don't really tend to be all that expensive to make compared to what some cartoons could demand budgetarily. And definitely the Adult Swim block doesn't have the kind of money to throw around to make this happen. And that's before Zaslav budget cuts.
 
Batman: Caped Crusader has been acquired by the Cartoon Network and will now be a surreal live action anti-comedy starring a guy from weird twitter with a low 5 digit follower account and a struggling alt-comic taking improv classes at UCB. The budget will be $4.73/episode and it will only be broadcast live on comedy-central.com at 3:13am.
 

R.R. Bigman

Coolest Guy
I‘m sad that another HBO Max cartoon is being killed/put in limbo, but I didn’t have much faith in this. All the animated DC stuff has done nothing for me post Justice League Unlimited, aside Brave and the Bold, which I liked quite lot.

Besides, you can’t try to recapture Batman: The Animated Series. Was WB gonna get a live orchestra to compose music for every episode? Was TMS going to work on the Clayface episodes? Were Roddy Mcdowell, David Warner and a bunch of other fantastic, out of left field actors going to come back to this mortal coil to reprise their roles? Than don’t even try.

Also, J.J. Abrams.
 

BEAT

LOUDSKULL
(DUDE/BRO)
I'm honestly just sort of counting on the board going OUR STOCK JUST DROPPED *HOW* MUCH?! Resulting in knives out for Zaslav.
 
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