{"id":313,"date":"2016-09-09T20:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/?p=313"},"modified":"2018-12-21T23:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T23:55:16","slug":"dceu-a-franchise-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"DCEU: A Franchise In Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the hell is the DCEU in crisis after only three films?<\/p>\n<p>Some seem to think that Zack Snyder is to blame, he has after all directed <em>Man Of Steel<\/em> and <em>Batman Vs Superman<\/em> and is the Executive Producer on <em>Suicide Squad<\/em>. Sadly he is also credited as &#8216;Story By&#8217; on the upcoming Wonder Woman, a film that apparently is in crisis according to one &#8216;supposed&#8217; former <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pajiba.com\/think_pieces\/an-open-letter-to-warner-bros-ceo-kevin-tsujihara-about-layoffs-zack-snyder-and-donuts.php\">Warner Bros. employee<\/a><\/span>. Along with numerous sites reporting upon the apparent behind the scenes issues at Warner Bros.<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicplanetcultureforlife.com\/2016\/04\/30\/hot-rumor-crisis-dc-films-zack-snyder-fighting-warner-bros-justice-league\/\">here&#8217;s one<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and here&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/uk\/movies\/dc-movie-universe\/40765\/warners-brings-in-new-heads-of-dc-movies-after-batman-v-superman\">another<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>There are also a number of reports that Suicide Squad had various competing <a href=\"http:\/\/screencrush.com\/suicide-squad-competing-cuts-warner-bros\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">edits<\/span><\/a> that left fans with, personally the best DCEU so far, a mess of a film.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Suicide-Squad-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Suicide-Squad-Poster-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Suicide Squad Poster\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Suicide-Squad-Poster-203x300.jpg 203w, http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Suicide-Squad-Poster-768x1138.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Suicide-Squad-Poster-691x1024.jpg 691w, http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Suicide-Squad-Poster-97x144.jpg 97w, http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Suicide-Squad-Poster.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/span>So what the hell is going on, DC\/Warner Bros. are working with some of the most recognisable characters in comic books but somehow don&#8217;t seem to be able to craft a film that isn&#8217;t full of plot holes, questionable dialogue or crappy editing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wonder Woman<\/em> has a lot riding on it, yes we&#8217;ve had the surprising release of the <em>Justice League<\/em> trailer which presented us with some surprisingly light and funny dialogue. But <em>Wonder Woman<\/em> is the first superhero feature film to have a woman in the lead since <em>Elektra<\/em> in 2005 and we all know how well that one was received.<\/p>\n<p>Sooner or later a comic book film is going to tank really big at the Box Office, like Fantastic Four big and it&#8217;s going to kill the current goodwill that comic book movies have with the wider cinema going audience. I&#8217;ve written previously about the tipping point regarding comic book related properties, <a href=\"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/?p=214\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">here<\/span><\/a>, and with DC&#8217;s recent announcement that the possible <em>Booster Gold<\/em> film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/booster-gold-dc-universe\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">wont be part<\/span><\/a> of the DCEU it seems pretty clear that should <em>Wonder Woman<\/em> and <em>Justice League<\/em> not fair so well at the box office Warner Bros.\/DC&#8217;s slate of announced titles could get a lot smaller unlike Marvel&#8217;s which seems to add a new title every couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the hell is the DCEU in crisis after only three films? Some seem to think that Zack Snyder is to blame, he has after all directed Man Of Steel and Batman Vs Superman and is the Executive Producer on Suicide Squad. Sadly he is also credited as &#8216;Story By&#8217; on the upcoming Wonder Woman,&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DCEU: A Franchise In Crisis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101,132,131,107,130,129,111,102],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-batman-v-superman","tag-booster-gold","tag-elektra","tag-justice-league","tag-man-of-steel","tag-suicide-squad","tag-wonder-woman","tag-zack-snyder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sotoncomics.aggh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}