Warner Bros. Announces 10 DC Movies, 3 Lego Movies and 3 'Harry Potter' Spinoffs
 

Warner Bros. Announces 10 DC Movies, 3 Lego Movies and 3 'Harry Potter' Spinoffs


Congratulations, Marvel: you now have a fully-fledged superhero competitor. Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsuijihara announced the studio’s plans for its DC Entertainment properties this morning, naming ten DC movies between 2016 and 2020, in addition to three Harry Potter spin-offs and three Lego movies.

In August, Warners announced dates for nine untitled DC releases for those years at the same time as it moved Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice from May 2016 to March that year in order to avoid a showdown with Marvel's Captain America 3. Some of the projects had been rumored and quasi-announced (Dwayne Johnson confirmed the existence of a Shazam project when he announced that he would be playing Black Adam last month, for example), but today's announcement is the first time all 10 movies have been named.

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Those 10 DC movies named are:

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice directed by Zack Snyder (2016)
Suicide Squad directed by David Ayer (2016)
Wonder Woman starring Gal Gadot (2017)
Justice League Part One directed by Snyder, with Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams reprising their roles (2017)
The Flash starring Ezra Miller (2018)
Aquaman starring Jason Momoa (2018)
Shazam (2019)
Justice League Part Two directed by Zack Snyder (2019)
Cyborg starring Ray Fisher (2020)
Green Lantern (2020)

In a press release following Tuijhara’s announcement, Warners noted that the DC slate consisted of “at least” these 10 movies, “as well as standalone Batman and Superman films.” It's worth noting that each of the solo movies feature characters who are currently members of the comic book incarnation of the Justice League, although whether or not the same will be true in their movie incarnations remains unknown (For example, Gal Gadot isn't listed as appearing in the Justice League movie, interestingly enough, but Amy Adams' Lois Lane is).

Outside of the DC properties, the studio will also further explore J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter mythology with three movies to be released in 2016, 2018 and 2020 based on her Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them novella. The first movie, which features Rowling’s screenwriting debut, will be directed by Potter veteran David Yates.

Warners’ Lego plans include three releases over the next four years, starting with the Charlie Bean-directed Ninjago in 2016, followed by The Lego Batman Movie in 2017 (as exclusively revealed by THR last week) and The Lego Movie 2 in 2018.

Personally, im getting really sick of comic-book movies.

Ugh. I know. It sucks how they force you to watch them and shit.

Why can't I just watch the movies I want to watch, and avoid the films that I don't want to watch?

I hate this ****ing country. We need more freedom, people. George Washington didn't sail the Delaware for this bullshit.

Aquaman starring Jason Momoa (2018)


:eek: Seriously?! I'm a fan of Khal Drogo, but Aquaman?!

I don't watch them, actually. Just wish they'd stop making movies for comics that simply don't deserve a movie.

Aquaman? Shazam? Wonder Woman?

People really give a shit about those characters?

Shazam with Black Adam (The Rock).

Looking forward to that one.

a metric ****ton of those properties are going to tank, just by looking at who they want to carry the specified franchise.

I had to look up some of actors to identify who the **** they are.

Those kinda characters are like mashed potatoes. They go great as a side order with a juicy steak. But you don't throw them on a plate as your main dish and call it a meal.

They do not value your input.

Any character can be entertaining if written well.

You could have made the same "who gives a shit" argument about Captain America, Thor, or Guardians of the Galaxy.

Well written movies create their own audience.

Not that DC needs even write them well. DC and Marvel superhero movies are automatic cash cows.

Hopefully they're handled well. I'm not optimistic, but I've been proven wrong before.

Guardians of the Galaxy.

Thus far they've casted horribly outside of Cavill, Affleck, and The Rock.

Gadot was a bargain bin actress for WW, The kid who's going to play The Flash will either have to dye his hair blond or red, because he's totally ethnic looking and Momoa as Arthur?

:facepalm:

It isn't wrong the kid isn't a natural blonde or a ginger.

Who says Barry or Arthur HAS to be blonde or "not ethnic?" They didn't make any of the Batman actors including Christian Bale dye their hair to be more like Bruce. Chris Evans didn't bleach his hair blonde to be more like Cap either.

Again, :facepalm:

Aquaman is that crappy character we remember from the Super Friends cartoon. But he's also a character that has had some pretty good writers on and off over the last couple of decades. And Mamoa fits the role a lot better than most people who probably never read any of that shit might realize.

It could be decent. Aquaman will never be a character I really love. But it could be a good movie if they have a good story.

LOL, nice! How obtuse you are, and the ultimate contrarian when comes to comic book related shit too. There are simple facts that with the Flash they are going to deal with 2 continuities the TV and film variations. One needs to be hard lined to the comics to distinguish the two of them a part and currently it isn't the The CW's program. Momoa was another lame selection, like Gadot who doesn't fit the archetype of the character and isn't good enough actor and isn't charismatic enough to hold down a franchise like that. The guy is simply not that good of an actor.

I'm not even disagreeing with your opinions on the casting, just the fact that you said some the actors are "too ethnic" and essentially need to dye their hair to be more white is some 19th century draconian horseshit.

No.

Seriously.....Lego Ninjago....go the **** away.

I'm starting to look at these franchises like Downton Abbey or Boardwalk Empire. Heard they were awesome, but damned if I'm gonna catch up on 5 seasons on that shit.

Cant wait until 2020 to see Green Lantern lol Maybe in 2040 they will do another one.

I get that you're a comic book nerd and eat this shit up, but the vast majority aren't. They could probably release a movie starring Robin and you'd spring a boner.

Strong characters can appeal to broader audiances who've at least experienced the likes of Superman, Batman, Spiderman etc in their child hoods. Everyone knows those names, my 7 year old son recognizes those figures. Captain America can be placed right up there with those guys, and to a lesser extent, Thor.

But Aquaman, Shazam and Wonderwoman? No one gives a **** about them. My kid doesn't know who they are, and i'd venture most kids his age don't know who they are. Those are strictly comic-cult characters. There's no X-men like appeal there.

This is called "milking the comic book market until it's over saturated and dead", and it's about to be over saturated and dead real soon. The movie industry is notorious for it.

:facepalm:

Dude

:shake:

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This kid doesn't look believable in terms of playing The Flash too.

Let me guess you'll bring up Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, Reeves gets a pass because of street cred from other roles in the action hero genre. Just to get that out of the way.

Has anybody ever been a fan of The Flash?

The Flash has had some interesting storylines. I'm kinda meh on DC in general.

DC Graphic Novels usually are far superior to their monthlies, but I agree with this 100%.

Just not ones that would transfer well to a movie. Hard to do Rogues War in a couple of movies. Too many characters and the old Rogues won't get the character development needed.

Flash is in some interesting time traveling ones, too, against Dr. Zoom.

But again, yeah, just wouldn't transfer well to film.

His main villain is named Dr. ****ing Zoom. Awful.

When you get down to it, Zoom's the most powerful character of the JLA.

Just... throwing that out there.

DC lesser knowns would do fine if they had them done correctly. Problem is, no one trusts them to pull it off.

GotG shows you can pull this off.

I also love how many people bitch about all the movies made from comics. But are ok with movies made from books.

Wait, comics, and reg books are the same??

Drop the Dr. and Zoom isn't horrible.

Actually...

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Other than that I'm with you.

Funny thing is my girlfriend gave me a few weeks ago a book about the DC universe. All the super heroes and villains were explained. Anyway I found the Aquaman pretty interesting. If done right there could wring three or four sequels easily.

It's becoming all about the Chinese market. The American market is still important but if you want a BILLION out of a movie, you have to do well in China. The Chinese love their big budget Hollywood super hero movies.

It costs a Chinese worker 2 days pay to go to an American super hero movie. More and more movies will cater to the Chinese. You have 650 Million Chinese movie goers. And almost everyone wants to see these big budget super hero movies. Do that math.

It wouldn't surprise me if some of these movies never get made. Some of these movies will inevitably underperform and projects will get cancelled or delayed.

Like Sonys original plans for Spider-Man and the Sinister Six.

When I was a kid, the only DC comic I liked was The Flash. I'm not a fanboy or anything, but that was one of the only proposed movies on the list that interested me.

When I was like 8 I used to watch the Flash tv show from the 90s.

And **** all these live action movies. I want more animated Batman movies. The last couple DC released were pretty shitty though, to be honest.

I would say Gorilla Grodd or maybe The Rogues (Captain Cold, Heatwave, Weather Wizard, Trickster, Mirror Master, and Captain Boomerang)

Grodd would just look somewhat stupid (though with the rebooted Planet of the Apes franchise maybe not) and the Rogues need several movies to build their personalities (blue collar supervillains with a somewhat congenial relationship with The Flash)

Mirror Master was the best in Animal Man.... who should get his own movie. If you've read Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man ohhh boy if they were able to pull off the whole uber-meta ending where he finds out he's a fictional comic book character and meets his author in our world, goes to comic book limbo and meets all the obsolete/cancelled characters and how they have to sacrifice Psycho Pirate via retcon/mind wipe in order to keep continuity, and then him breaking out of the panel (screen) and sees the audience ROFL would be so epic in live action. Knowing Warner Brothers/lame ass Nolan+Snyder they would probably go with the dumb New 52 "Red vs. Green" Swamp Thing crossover storyline though :rolleyes:

Hell, give me a Preacher movie/series.

I could see an HBO Preacher series kicking ass. The Sandman or Astro City would also be good...

Is it okay that I will not watch any of this??

I sure as hell won't be...

Interesting. Keep us all updated day-by-day as this situation progresses.