DC announced this Monday Geoff Johns new project, Mad Ghost Productions, a company that will work alongside DC and Warner Bros. to produce new content including films, TV shows and comics based on DC properties.
According to DC, one of his first film projects will be an adaptation of the bestselling “Green Lantern Corps”, and he also participated in the upcoming Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Shazam! movies.
This all seems like great news to me, except for one small thing. It’s ten years too late.
As Marvel celebrates the tenth year of it’s amazing expanding universe, DC has yet to produce a quality film outside the bat since arguably Richard Donner’s Superman in 1978 and there’s no reason for it. Sure, giving the reins of the cinematic universe to the man who said he would have made Batman get raped in his movie certainly did not helped, but there is no real reason for Zack Snyder to have gotten the job in the first place.
Listen, I love Marvel comics and movies and I wish them the best, this is not about doing something better or that makes more money. This is about these two companies symbiotic relationship since they started and how DC could have picked up a thing or two from Marvel movies even in 2008 after Iron Man’s release. Instead, they waited five long years and had the man who hates colors and happiness to make a movie about America’s superpowered boy scout and took away everything that made the character who he was. And then continued to let him do what he wanted and gave us Batman V Superman. ‘Nough said.
In ten years, as Marvel made 18 wonderful movies (sure, not all of them where that great, I’m looking at you Captain America The First Avenger) DC gave us 8 productions (The Dark Knight 2008, Watchmen 2009, Green Lantern 2011, The Dark Knight Rises 2012, Man Of Steel 2013, BVS 2016, Justice League 2017, Wonder Woman 2017), five of them, desperate attempts to kickstart some kind of franchise. Six of them massive failures either in the box office or with the fans and critics. And arguably two wins, the unforgettable Dark Knight and last year’s Wonder Woman.
So sure, Johns is a great writer, but he’s also been working on the upcoming Titans show.
Its… colorful?
With Akiva Goldsman.
Akiva Goldsman who wrote the step-on-shit-while-barefoot bad Batman & Robin.
Of course, let´s work with the guy who wrote the worst Batman movie ever, why not?
And Johns is a great writer but he’s also been writing and producing Wonder Woman 2 (or Wonder Woman 84, as it seems the sequel will be titled).
Right next to Zack Snyder, also a producer in the film.
So, if I’m getting this right, DC is bringing amazing talent to the table and then forcing this talent to work with the same people who have ruined massive project for years to come.
I seriously hope he can get things back on track, and if Wonder Woman was proof enough and DC actually paid attention to the fans response to it, we’re gonna have amazing content coming our way thanks to this wonderful guy. It’s either that or they will continue to miss the mark as widely as a drunk man in a bus station misses the toilet.
But I’m an optimist and I hope for the best. What do you think?
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