Quote Originally Posted by Vakanai View Post
Disagree strongly, if Marvel can make obscure characters like Guardians of the Galaxy work, can make Black Panther a billion dollar movie, if DC themselves can make a stellar Wonder Woman and even make Aquaman a billion dollar movie, then it doesn't matter how much source material is or how broad/popular their appeal is, just get the right people to make a good enough movie and any of DC's heroes, black or otherwise, can do well. There isn't a hero that couldn't work, just takes the right vision and the right filmmakers.
Oh yeah, we're way past the point where a superhero movie needed to be about a popular comic character.

At this point, Marvel doesn't need to worry about what sells on the shelf. They make a movie and it's successful whether it's a well known character or a Z-lister even hardcore comic fans barely know. And DC (and other studios) can piggyback on that. Hell, think back a few years; would any of us have expected a pop culture joke like Aquaman to make a billion? Wasn't that a joke on the show Entourage, that the main character got his big break on a movie like that? Would we have expected someone like Shazam, who hasn't been popular since the 50's (and doesnt even have his original name anymore) to be successful (yes the BO wasn't spectacular but that seems largely due to timing, WB's crap brand trust with audiences, and it still did well enough for WB to do a sequel)? No. We would've thought that a comic book movie needed to be based on a popular comic book. That is no longer the case....if it ever was in the first place.

You get the right people together and, in today's Hollywood, even Space Cabbie would be successful. The excuse of "Oh, this character isn't popular" means absolutely nothing. It's a thinner excuse than "Not tonight, I have a headache." So the only excuse WB has for not pushing any black characters or C-list properties is because they themselves suck and are utterly terrible, not because the character/s in question don't have potential or wider market appeal.