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[bryant]

Huh. Perhaps DC has finally noticed what Marvel's doing with their movies. Chris Nolan, director of Memento, has signed to do a Batman film. Course, that doesn't mean it'll happen.

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What I want to know...

[dtm]

Is why DC hasn't gone ahead and made movies out of their other characters - I'm not asking for "Wonder Twins The Movie", and I admit that an Aquaman movie would probably come out pretty lame, but why haven't they gotten a Wonder Woman movie out the door? I mean, Marvel has managed to turn DareDevil into a movie. (What's next, Ironman?) Is DC so hung up on Batman that it can't see the movie potential of, say, Flash or the Green Lantern? (And with the Green Lantern, there'd be a good plot-based reason for switching who the main actor is when you do a sequel)

Actually, I was kind of wondering if Marvel would try a Captain-America-versus-Osamma movie, but I guess that's a bit hard to put into production at the right time so as to be timely when it's released.

Re: What I want to know...

[bryant]

DC's doing a really bad job of converting their properties into movies in general. Of course, Marvel used to do a bad job too -- it's hard to make it work right.

Marvel's current secret is a guy named Avi Arad, who runs Marvel's movie production group. He parlayed the success of Men in Black into the ability to make sure anyone directing a Marvel movie is a topflight director, and he doesn't compromise. DC coulda done the same thing after Batman, but... did not.

Basically, DC just doesn't take that aspect of the business seriously enough to put a really topnotch guy in charge of it. Pity.