DC Universe

[Daniel]

73% decline for week two. A Flash in the pan.

[Ben]

Ouch. And OUCH!

[James]

DC Boss Calls Out Laziness of Recent Superhero Movies

https://thedirect.com/article/dc-superh ... ecent-lazy

[Ben]

I think whatever Gunn does with this is going to determine the next ten-fifteen years of movies. Not just superhero movies, but movies in general. So many of them *are* super-tinged right now, or even just affected by them, that the level of success in what he does will inform whether we remain on this cycle of comic book films beimg so dominant each year, or if they go back to being occasional event movies that give the wider genre a rest for a while. There’s a lot more than just DC riding on this new output.

[EricJ]

DC Boss Calls Out Laziness of Recent Superhero Movies

https://thedirect.com/article/dc-superh ... ecent-lazy

Director of The Suicide Squad calls kettle black.

(Somewhere, there's a happy medium between the discipline of capturing the original tone of the comic/characters, the commercial work of plugging in a conventional three-act structure to bring along the non-fans, and the self-indulgence of just throwing every personal goofy pop-ref gag and private obscure-character fandom at the wall to see what sticks.)

[Daniel]

David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan have been cast as Superman & Lois Lane. I approve!

[Ben]

It was always Corenswet for me, but I think Emma had the better Lois look. Obviously chemistry is also important and in some other images I saw Rachel also worked rather well. Up, up and away for a good start!

[Randall]

Interestingly, David is 29, Rachel is 32, and Emma is 27. So, with the final casting they are keeping Lois older than Clark, which is a dynamic I always liked.

Emma is way cuter to me, but the part of Lois doesn't call for "cute." Tough and capable is more important.

[Ben]

Just as long as they are all over 21.

[Randall]

I was trying to figure out who Corenswet reminded me of, and--- Tom Welling!! In some pics, he's almost a dead ringer.

[Ben]

Yes. For me without the beard, he’s almost a perfect make up of Welling and Reeve, with a bit of Cavill-like hair. Quite a mix!

[Daniel]

The Flash is now available on Digital. That was fast.

[Ben]

Yes, it seemed to come along in a…flash?

I don’t think there was any other reason to hold it back, was there…?

Next up: Indy on D+ by the end of August. And the vicious circle continues: audiences wait to see a big new film on streaming, so it flops, and the studio thinks it hasn’t done well so puts it on streaming…

[Daniel]

Ben Affleck's scene for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which was meant to replace Michael Keaton's scene, has been cut.

according to sources, as new DC heads James Gunn and Peter Safran do not want to promise a movie universe that will not come to fruition nor tie it down excessively to past failures.

Makes sense.

[Ben]

So Keaton shot a scene for Aquaman 2…!? Or was it intended for him but was switched to Batfleck before it was done? Either way, having Keaton makes zero sense? And neither does Batfleck, really, so probably best it’s left out, whichever way you look at it.