Where would the first brick be laid in a DC Movieverse?

[greatmetropolitan]

Logically you say Superman. I wouldn't do too much in the movie that signposts everyone else, just the odd throwaway line about Gotham City or see someone use a Waynetech laptop, that kind of thing.

They'll reboot Batman soon enough after the Nolan trilogy. A little cameo of Henry Cavill's Clark Kent asking Bruce Wayne a question at a press conference would do it. You dont even need to use his name. They'd have a fun tete-a-tete. "Mr Wayne, you seem to have a pretty hectic lifestyle. Running Waynetech and all your night-time antics, how do you do it?" "What can I say? I'll sleep when I'm dead. The idea of free time is positively alien to me at this point!"

Give me Wonder Woman taking on Hydras and Giants and Aquaman in an underwater Game of Thrones senario, the Flash doing Doctor-Whoesque time travel stuff and the GL franchise being rehabilitated into being watchable, then we'll talk JLA. (Which would be White Martians invading. Superman and Batman get beaten up, round up some reinforcements, EVERYONE gets beaten up, but the White Martian's Green martian prisoner, J'onn J'onzz gives them the edge they need to break out and win).

Then I want a JSA movie that shows a bunch of old men coming out of retirement to kick evil's ass one last time...(by the end they'll decide to train their progeny, of course...)

[dc76er]

And while I'm on it: dunno if Lex will be in MoS, heard about Zod.
Whenever they'll do the next Luthor - for the love of God: don't make it no "kiddie" Luthor! (As some Smallville-damaged brains have demanded ...)

Gimme one of these two, or someone else that age or beyond:

[An Ear In The Fireplace]

But don't you think that it's just a touch TOO fantasy, for a universe that would be shared by the Justice League? Just a tad?

Not really. Once you've got gods that can do just about anything, you're already in an area of high fantasy. In terms of fitting with the Justice League--if the Justice League is science-based--then any Olympian overtones don't fit. But I don't think they need to. The idea that you can create life out of inanimate substance can probably be explained better with science than the idea that there are gods with fantastic powers living in some ethereal realm going around raping women so they can birth demigods.

[dc76er]

Then I want a JSA movie that shows a bunch of old men coming out of retirement to kick evil's ass one last time...(by the end they'll decide to train their progeny, of course...)

I'm there! This reminds me how I sat through Kick-Ass again the other day, and caught myself wishing they were old instead of young.

[AdamYJ]

The Flash.

New eras for DC always start with the Flash.

[Reginleif]

who would Flash's enemy be? Hopefully they will be smart enough to have it funny?

[Jim Thompson]

who would Flash's enemy be? Hopefully they will be smart enough to have it funny?

Zoom.

Actually, starting with a live action adaptation of Flashpoint might be a good approach.

[sobek]

who would Flash's enemy be? Hopefully they will be smart enough to have it funny?

Flash has a pretty good rogues gallery, so it wouldn't be hard to pick a good villain for the movie. I think (and hope) they'll go with Captain Cold, but we could get Gorilla Grodd, Heatwave, Zoom, Mirror Master or the Trickster instead.

[Darrell D.]

And while I'm on it: dunno if Lex will be in MoS, heard about Zod.
Whenever they'll do the next Luthor - for the love of God: don't make it no "kiddie" Luthor! (As some Smallville-damaged brains have demanded ...)

Gimme one of these two, or someone else that age or beyond:

Nah, I'm thinking Idris Elba would be one bad-ass and smooth Luthor.

[Flashpoint]

No lame MM. Its going to be yborg you silly pre flashpoint fans.

Thank you!!

Seriously, I am getting so sick of Martian Manhunter fans insisting he be in a Justice League movie. It's Cyborg now, not MM. Deal with it.

[pryde15]

I think I'd honestly prefer for them to start off with the Justice League movie and then stem off into the solo storylines.
The Avengers was definitely worth the wait but I don't know if I could do it all over again with the League.

[Flashpoint]

Why would they revolt GL. Just make the universe like games bond the first movie happened but its a new actor as Hal and go from there. Worked great for the Hulk.

Several of us keep pointing out how Hulk's situation is very much analogous to GL's. So many here keep engaging in pearl-clutching histrionics about the GL movie (which only makes their arguments that much weaker, by the way) that they totally ignore reality.

The first Hulk movie was an embarrassing failure. The second Hulk was a moderate success. Now with one appearance in Avengers, Disney & Marvel are in love with Hulk again and are seriously talking about a new Hulk movie in 2013. The parallels to GL are painfully obvious. GL is so not over and could come back stronger than ever with the right script and the right director.

And all people saying starting with JLA and worlds finest don't realizewby avengers had so much hyper and got the proper budject. They already tired the whole JLA first and it fell through the ground. You guys may not like but the only viable option is to copy marvel as while the overall end game is JLA the biggest thing id to make heed individual guys household names and cash in on merchandising and. Cartoons. Having only a jla complicate that's.

Quit thinking like someone who just wants a JLA folm and think like a film maker or story teller.

Um, why? Studio execs don't think like storytellers, either. They think like salesmen and bankers.

To (sort of) quote Marcy Carsey of Carsey-Werner Productions, "People [who don't work in Hollywood] don't understand. 95% of what gets made is crap. It's a miracle anything good gets made." (I'd have to fast forward through her special on the DVR to quote her verbatim; sorry, heh. )

It really is a miracle that anything good ever gets made in Hollywood. Ultimately, it's all about the money: who has it and how they can make more of it--and being very good friends with those people so they will support your ideas.

[sobek]

Thank you!!

Seriously, I am getting so sick of Martian Manhunter fans insisting he be in a Justice League movie. It's Cyborg now, not MM. Deal with it.

No lame MM. Its going to be yborg you silly pre flashpoint fans.

For starters if DC creates a Cyborg movie or have him star in JL the majority of the non-comic reading audience will just see him as a cheap rip-off of Iron Man and a lame half-assed cash grab (I'm not saying I agree with them, I'm just stating the potential back lash of a cyborg movie). The similarities between the two characters may prove too much for some movie goers.

Also who would be the villain in his solo movie? Because Cyborg doesn't have a rogues gallery, and thats a pretty fundamental flaw.

Also the Martian Manhunter plays a pivotal role in the Justice League as its communicater, as well as its conscience, he's the carm, quite and wise figure who keeps the group together, he's an important part in the Justice League, unlike Cyborg.

And J'onn is definetly not lame!

[Jake Fury]

I would do a Trinity based movie and then later try to add other characters like GL, Flash and those mentioned before.

[marvell2100]

Beware the Super Friends movie.