LoganGambit87
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wonder if Jenny Sparkss is gonna be pom klementieff since james gunn has hinted at her coming over to DC
And yet for some reason I've never liked it, don't know why. I'm more of a Finch and James Lee fan.Quitely's artwork is so absurdly good. It has this weird liquid-y texture to it that I love.
And yet for some reason I've never liked it, don't know why. I'm more of a Finch and James Lee fan.
I wouldn’t have a problem with that.Jeff Sneider says he's heard Drew Goddard is in talks to direct this one.
The Authority are generally about direct intervention. Traditional superheroes are usually about inspiring the rest of the world to be good. The Authority are generally be good or else. They hold the powers that be to account and keep them in check. The wildstorm run touched on the geopolitics/ social issues of the time and satires some existing comic charters and tropes.I admit that I haven't read any of The Authority comics and am not very familiar with them, but from what I can gather they seem very... morally opposed to the more traditional superheroes in the DC universe like Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman. So I am not sure how you could put them all in the same universe and not have conflict.
Maybe Gunn keeps them in their own multiverse where they get to be the main characters of their own story, but I doubt that is going to happen.
An extremely popular show? If anything The Boys success might be part of why they think it’ll succeed.Personally, I think an Authority movie is a terrible idea because they are way more flawed than your typical superheroes, and that's likely going to repel audiences. The Authority is more like The Boys than Justice League. But we'll see.
Just to use an example, there was a lot of talk about using Ultimates as inspiration for Avengers. Now, the MCU did take a few cues from the Ultimate Universe and comics, but the Avengers movie as a final product turned out nothing like the Ultimates, other than family man no mask Hawkeye and Samuel L. Jackson Nick Fury.
Ultimates is basically like if the Avengers were The Authority.
An extremely popular show? If anything The Boys success might be part of why they think it’ll succeed.
Sure, but its also not the same style of story as The Authority. The writing in The Authority was never massively sophisticated (the less said about Mark Millar's run, which was far closer to what you are describing, the better) but the characters still have a lot of potential to be engaging and its not like they're universally total unlikable ghouls.Yes a TV show that basically satirizes and parodies mainstream superhero comics and superheroes, plus movies of the MCU and DCEU. Bringing that style into your new DCU is inherently risky.
I'm of the opposite mind. After reading up a bit on The Authority, I think introducing them is a great idea. Nevermind the fact that they're interesting characters, but their more extreme methods inspiring Superman to create the Justice League is a cool idea. It reminds me a bit of Kingdom Come. Superman sees the situation and goes, "Yeah no, this isn't going to work. We need to be better."
But the Authority are "heroes" (or regard themselves as such), so there's an opportunity for great nuance and character work in that conflict.
Right, I'm referring more to similarity to Superman's call to action in that book.That wasn't the impression I got from Kingdom Come. Seemed to be a far more complex situation. As I recall, Superman's actions didn't really have that desired outcome.
To me, bringing Authority into your film universe would be like making a Ultimates movie. It wouldn't work and people wouldn't like it. No one wants to see Captain America kick people while they are down, ask if the A on his forehead stands for France, and Hulk being utterly offensive:
https://i.redd.it/1tbxsfad8n711.png
None of these are characters people have preconceived notions about though so it really isn’t the same as Cap being a raging prick. The reason Ultimates is so off putting is because it’s written by Mark Millar who is an infamous edgelord D-Bag and bad writer, plenty of great action movies have characters who are sort of unpleasant anti heroes at their core. They can still also be sympathetic and interesting, they’re not gonna act like the Ultimates because no one writes like Mark Millar except Millar.That wasn't the impression I got from Kingdom Come. Seemed to be a far more complex situation. As I recall, Superman's actions didn't really have that desired outcome.
To me, bringing Authority into your film universe would be like making a Ultimates movie. It wouldn't work and people wouldn't like it. No one wants to see Captain America kick people while they are down, ask if the A on his forehead stands for France, and Hulk being utterly offensive:
https://i.redd.it/1tbxsfad8n711.png
I hate to say this but...The Seven are corporate shills and power-mad egomaniacs (with the exception of Maeve and Starlight). They save people because that's business to them.
The Authority heroes genuinely want to help good people and keep the peace. It's just they are so vicious and unmerciful towards bad guys in pursuit of that goal.
It's an interesting dichotomy that I don't think we've quite seen before. It's like if you took Superman and kept everything about him the same, except for how he treats bad guys. One minute he's saving a little girl's cat out of a tree. The next he's incinerating a bank robber.
Well it failed because I never got that impression at all.I hate to say this but...
Black Adam.
That was literally the entire marketing push behind Black Adam.