That was a few years ago (before Snyder, I think). The new Superman with him was rumored as part of his $500 million dollar production deal with WB signed last year. JJ is a huge Superman fan supposedly and a rumored part of the deal was that he gets to do a Superman movie.
Theres too much money that can be seen sitting on the table for Superman to be benched for a decade. Heck even at the height of the MCU when characters who were front and center in front of major audiences couldn't top his popularity. Its not too far fetched to think a good-great Superman film alone can generate close to $1.5 billion on the conservative side. There's no doubt wb knows this and won't leave him on the shelf for long. I do think they are taking more care to get the right director because while Snyder did a beautiful job with cinematography the story left much of the major audience in a bad way. The next Superman has to blow audiences away or the newer generation could be turned off from him. Very few directors can handle Superman and I think Abrams is one of them.
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Wonder if this means Titans and Batwoman will be hobbled with which villains and storylines they are allowed to use.
This will mostly affect Batwoman of course, since it's also set in Gotham, but since that show no longer has the comics accurate lead it's already going to struggle anyway IMO.
I'm not really invested in seeing another Gordon show, but I'll wait for reviews, it might be really good, so it's on my radar for now.
God damn it WB. Just get the movie made first and see how that goes before jumping two steps ahead like you always do you morons.
Truthfully I'm more okay with the announcement than I normally would be and its because of the people who will be doing it. Matt Reeves is a good director and Terence Winter has a very good body of work on his resume as a writer and producer with the Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire just to name a few. The more I've gotten in to movies and researched the behind the scenes details of making a good movie the common theme on quality revolves around directors and writers. A director or writer normally have the same issues in most cinematic work that they do. For instance Zack Snyder is great a cinematography but he is lackluster at pacing and writing screenplays. The same issues he had in 300 were the same issues he had in watchman, man of steel, and BvS. Christopher Nolan may not be as good at cinematography but he is good at pacing and screenplays which was seen in Inception and Batman. Once you start looking at whose behind the title you can really get a pretty good idea of the cinematic quality that you're going to get unless its a new comer than only time will tell.
Also, I think people need to also realize that all of these movie studios are in a race to get the most and best exclusive content which involves locking down directors, writers, and actors. So far imo WB is winning in that race. Locking major deals with the major directors like JJ Abrams, Christopher Nolan, Matt Reeves, as well as a lot more ( WB seems to be making deals each week). The Snyder cut wasn't just fan politics, they wanted to make Zack happy because he is the best cinematographer in Hollywood right now, they'd be stupid to let Disney, Amazon, or Apple get him.
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If Terence Winter and Matt Reeves are both involved in running this show, it will be great regardless of what the plot ends up being.
I just hope it's not another show about cops.