“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman
Rest assured if you're worried about what this means for his future at DC, the article states that Geoff will still be involved with DC's properties going forward:
Jim Lee will be taking over as CCO... aw yeah, I hope this means a line-wide return of armored costumes with lines everywhere!One of John’s first projects will be Green Lantern Corps, based on DC’s intergalactic police heroes which Johns is already very familiar with, having spent nine years writing Green Lantern comics and its spin-offs and publishing events. Johns will write the screenplay and act as one of the producers on the feature film. Johns is already writing and producing Wonder Woman 2 and will have a co-writing and executive producing credit on Aquaman, this year's only DC offering that opens in December.
“Geoff is a super talented writer and truly embedded in the DC Universe and its characters,” stated Emmerich. “We’re thrilled that he’s returning to his passion and his roots as a writer and producer. And, it’s even better that he’s staying in our Warner Bros. family. We look forward to working with him on ‘Green Lantern’ and other projects going forward.”
On the television side, Johns co-developed and is executive producing (alongside Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Jeremy Carver) and writing on the first original series for the upcoming DC Universe digital service, Titans. Johns also wrote the Titans episode “Doom Patrol” that it is spinning out into its own 13-episode original series for the digital service.
On the publishing side, Johns will write and curate a DC pop-up label under the moniker The Killing Zone, focusing on new and lesser known or dormant DC characters and titles. He will also write a new Shazam comic series scheduled to hit this fall as well as a comic titled Three Jokers, drawn by Jason Fabok. The latter was a project sidelined as Johns’ time was taken up by executive and screen commitments.
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Jim Lee is taking over as CCO is the scariest news I've ever seen
I am so glad that Johns is writing the Green Lantern Movie. I like the sound of his new label but I am not sure if I am a fan of him writing the new Shazam book.
Lee becoming the new CCO does worry me.
“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman
Killing Zone makes me fear for my fave minor characters.
Geoff Johns isn't the only writer that prefer to have a rich continuity, also Tom King, Scott Snyder and Grant Morrison, I don't think we shall worry about the return of New 52 yet.
Twitter comments from Vulture editor Kyle Buchanan on why Geoff left the position, reposted from another thread:
While Geoff Johns probably should hold some responbility for the movie's quality depend on what actually happened behind the screen, the original more Injustice-like script clearly didn't satisfy WB, or they won't have asked a massive rewrite on the first place.@KyleBuchanan
I remember hearing that Geoff Johns rewrote so much of JUSTICE LEAGUE when Zack Snyder was still directing that Chris Terrio would complain, "Maybe *try* using some of my pages?"
@KyleBuchanan
WB was allegedly so unsatisfied with how the Johns/Snyder version was shaping up that they convened a footage summit for *other* writers including Joss Whedon, Allan Heinberg, Seth Grahame-Smith, and Andrea Berloff to offer feedback. Then they hired Whedon.
@MattPatches
So why would they hire him to write more movies?
@KyleBuchanan
Welcome to Hollywood
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"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
One just simply has to hope that, after helping spearhead not just one, but TWO failed reboots of beloved comic book universes, that Jim Lee has learned his lesson by now.
Yeah, cause that's what DC needs right now... another imprint.
Save Ferris...