Is it time for Grant Morrison to replace Geoff Johns at DC?

[Trey Strain]

Please no.

Please elaborate on that. Do you think Morrison would have lost DC Entertainment upwards of $200 million on those two movies?

Why hasn't Johns already walked the plank for this? Does he have incriminating photos of someone high up at Time Warner, or something like that?

[daBronzeBomma]

No. Grant Morrison is absolutely awesome at certain things: Superman, Batman, JLA, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Invisibles, etc. But the bigger company- wide stuff is more hit or miss (Final Crisis, Multiversity, etc).

Geoff Johns is fine, he just needs to commit to either writing full - time or the overall business side full - time, not both at once.

[SiegePerilous02]

There are worse choices. Some properties like Superman and maybe even Wonder Woman would be far better off with Morrison than Johns, or probably anybody else. But we have no basis to know whether or not he'd be suited for the job overall.

[Caivu]

Please elaborate on that. Do you think Morrison would have lost DC Entertainment upwards of $200 million on those two movies?

I think he would've lost them even more, since he has literally no business or management experience that I know of.

[Green Goblin of Sector 2814]

Please elaborate on that. Do you think Morrison would have lost DC Entertainment upwards of $200 million on those two movies?

Why hasn't Johns already walked the plank for this? Does he have incriminating photos of someone high up at Time Warner, or something like that?

Justice League was going to flop regardless of Johns’s involvement as it was already far along in the planning stages by the time he came on and since Snyder is just a polarizing director to begin with.

[Sacred Knight]

I'm no fan of the Geoff Johns of today, nor his vision for the DCU in either print or screen media, but from the business perspective its a lot more complicated than just "insert-your-favorite-writer-here" into the job.

[Zero Hunter]

Please elaborate on that. Do you think Morrison would have lost DC Entertainment upwards of $200 million on those two movies?

Why hasn't Johns already walked the plank for this? Does he have incriminating photos of someone high up at Time Warner, or something like that?

You need to learn what a producers actually does if you think the failure of Green Lantern and the problems with Justice League are Johns fault. Jesus you sound like your on a witch hunt here. If you really think Johns had ANY control over what made it to the screen for either of those movies your a fool.

And no Morrison would be a total mess if he was the main man in charge.

[_Feely_]

Frak, yes!

It would change the world.

[dietrich]

Grant Morrison is fantastic writer and has great vision but I don't think he is suited to the role.

[Barbatos666]

On the comics side absolutely, neither he NOR Johns have any business on the movie/tv side of things.

[Godlike13]

Comic moviegoers aren't ready for Grant Morrison.

[MRP]

If I remember correctly, he already is working as Heavy Metal editor. It seems he is a little occupied right now.

He is EIC, and if his tenure there is any indication of how he would be in a supervisory role, well, the first 6 issues of his tenure could best be described as hot garbage, incoherent drivel and lack of any real storytelling or direction in the features he chose, then he basically became a figurehead, let others take over and the magazine slowly started to improve again and escape form the morass of suck it descended in under his auspices. Pretty much all he does now is write a feature or two an editorial that is more incoherent babbling in the vein of Supergods, and rubber stamp middle management decisions. If ythat is the kind of leadership you want heading DC, more power to you, I'll pass.

-M

[Jcogginsa]

Grant Morrison is a great writer, but I don't think he has the required management skills

[Outside_85]

Comic moviegoers aren't ready for Grant Morrison.

'Welcome to you first Grant Morrison movie, no you don't need 3D glasses, but you do need to smoke some of this.'

[BohemiaDrinker]

1) No.

Morrison is 1 million times the writer Johns is, but he's not a businessperson, a team-worker for extended periods of time or easily digestible.

2) Does the OP has any idea of what Johns actually does, when he started doing what it is that he does now, and what is or isn't his responsibility? Honest question, 'cause reading the replies it doesn't seem so and, well, that renders the whole point moot anyway.