Yeah, I do wonder if DC will be able to adjust if one of their movies doesn't perform to expectations
Really excited about Superman and also the Creature Commandos! So cool that they’re using Morrison version of Frankenstein and the Bride.
Yeah it’s unfortunate that the modern version of Waller is pretty much a straight up villain. Ostrander’s version had nuance, an interesting backstory, and despite her questionable acts was still way more good than evil.
I’m hoping we get that version of Amanda Waller.
Last edited by Robotman; 02-01-2023 at 08:04 PM.
Honestly?
I don't worry about that half as much as I worry about just how "Inside Baseball..." that set of characters was even for folks who were reading Wildstorm comics at the time.
I mean, just where Apollo/Midnighter came from is pretty zonked if you are just John/Jane Public.
"Well, they are both survivors of a 'Failsafe...' team that a mad scientist cooked up because he was too paranoid to trust the main team..."
I'll be surprised if more than 3 see the light of day.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
It’s hard to say regarding WB’s effect on all this
It’s a new regime under the Discovery people, and DC is allegedly its own studio now - so that should mean Gunn and co have as much freedom as Feige at Marvel.
Unfortunately, the top brass haven’t made it easy to predict their moves in this last year following all the cancellations haha
What if the Lanterns show is the first step in the DCU and is a "True Detective" type show where they are investigating anomalies on Earth or in a small town because it is alien related and that then feeds to Superman: Legacy? Which means Lanterns is the new DCU origin story of Superman. Maybe that is where they are taking all these "obscure" titles and introducing well known characters but making it less obvious so that we are surprised and then announce the big "Justice League" type show which in my opinion should be Kingdom Come.
I wonder what Gunn meant by the True Detective comparison. Does he mean it’s going to be anthology-like season to season, with different Lanterns on a different case each season? Or did Gunn mean the Lanterns would face off against a Cthulhuian menace in the first season? I could see True Detectives-style working with Hal as Woody Harrelson and Green Arrow Ollie as Matthew McConaughey, but I don’t see the same Odd Couple pairing in Hal and John. They’re both kind of a couple of squares. Who’s the crazy one? As it will be a cartoon, I assume Gunn did not mean we’d get gratuitous sex scenes with Alexandra Daddario, which might be unfortunate depending on your perspective. I don’t see how an animated show can replicate the best out-of-control, undercover-cops-gone-rogue action scenes, like the one at this link, since To Live and Die in LA, either. I mean, I know it is Gunn, but is a Green Lantern cartoon really going to be this (below) intense and good?
The rest of the seasons sucked, but Gunn comparing his cartoon to True Detective sets the bar awfully high, because no one thinks of anything but season one when you say True Detective.
Last edited by Brian B; 02-02-2023 at 08:49 AM.
Well if its modeled after the Morrison stuff on GL, you better buckle your seatbelt and eat your Wheaties. The first big arc started with the lanterns interrogating a disgusting spider-alien and ended with a reset of the entire universe (which got put back to rights in the next arc). And believe it or not it felt very much like a detective comic.
It was True Detective in the sense of grim and gritty, with precincts and other cop show atmospheric settings.
Funny thing about this setting - it makes Hal seem downright heroic even when he's being jerky old Hal.
Last edited by Scott Taylor; 02-02-2023 at 09:47 AM.
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