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[Milk Tray Guy]

Been thinking about James Gunn's plans for the animated side of the DCU.

Any female led movies you're especially hoping to see (DCU, or 'Elseworlds')?

In the past we've had,

Wonder Woman (2009)
Vixen: The Movie (2017)
Justice League vs the Fatal Five (2019 - really a Jessica Cruz movie)
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
Catwoman: Hunted (2022)
Legion of Super-Heroes (2023 - really a Supergirl movie)

Not many, and quite a gap between Wonder Woman and Vixen: The Movie. Surprisingly, no Harley Quinn movie - the closest she came was in 2017 with Batman and Harley Quinn.

Btw, I found it interesting that director Lauren Montgomery said Supergirl's name was removed from the title of Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010) - based on the comic The Supergirl from Krypton - due to the poor sales of Wonder Woman the year before.

I'd love a Batgirl movie, to offset the bad taste left by the pulling of the live-action movie. And I want a Hawkgirl movie. Any doubts (much as I love her) over whether she could carry a movie were quickly dispelled when I recently rewatched the whole DCAU Justice League (especially Starcrossed). She's a great character, whose potential for some reason seems to have been ignored since JL/JLU.

 

[Primal Slayer]

To even put Vixen as part of that list is laughable. It wasnt a movie, it was a CWSeed series packaged together.

and I wouldnt put JLvFF as a female solo movie, it's a JL movie with Jessica at the forefront.

We know that the the head of WB put a ban on female lead dtvs in 2009 after WWs release which caused the Batgirl Y1 dtv to be canceled and S/B to be changed to remove Supergirls name. WW2009 would go on to be one of their top sellers though lol.

There still isnt enough of them and James will definitely need to step it up in that department.

But....as far as Elseworlds:

I want a Birds of Prey dtv

Another WW dtv, another Catwoman dtv

Batgirl is a definite

Zatanna

Worlds Finest: Huntress/Powergirl

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

To even put Vixen as part of that list is laughable. It wasnt a movie, it was a CWSeed series packaged together.

And released as a movie (with around 15 min - I think - of extra footage). In the same way as The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest and Justice League: Starcrossed.

and I wouldnt put JLvFF as a female solo movie, it's a JL movie with Jessica at the forefront.

I didn't say it was a solo movie. I said it was a Jessica Cruz movie (perhaps 'story' would have been a better word). And I cited it as an example of 'female led', which it undoubtedly is.

Good call on Zatanna.

 

[Primal Slayer]

And released as a movie (with around 15 min - I think - of extra footage). In the same way as The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest and Justice League: Starcrossed.


I didn't say it was a solo movie. I said it was a Jessica Cruz movie (perhaps 'story' would have been a better word). And I cited it as an example of 'female led', which it undoubtedly is.

And those two examples aren't considered movies onto themselves. While it isnt a big deal, Vixen wasnt commissioned by WB and the studio was still very much anti-female dtvs at that moment in time.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

And those two examples aren't considered movies onto themselves. While it isnt a big deal, Vixen wasnt commissioned by WB and the studio was still very much anti-female dtvs at that moment in time.

Those examples are considered movies by plenty, and have their own IMDb pages (separate from the pages for them as individual episodes).

Vixen: The Movie was announced and released by WB

Vixen: The Movie Coming to Bluray with Bonus Content

 

[Primal Slayer]

Those examples are considered movies by plenty, and have their own IMDb pages (separate from the pages for them as individual episodes).

Vixen: The Movie was announced and released by WB

Vixen: The Movie Coming to Bluray with Bonus Content

As the headline says, bundling a series as s movie does not make it a movie:
CW Seed's Animated 'Vixen' Series Coming to Blu-ray as 'Vixen: The Movie'

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

As the headline says, bundling a series as s movie does not make it a movie:
CW Seed's Animated 'Vixen' Series Coming to Blu-ray as 'Vixen: The Movie'

VIXEN: The Movie combines the first two seasons of the CW Seed digital series into a single uniform story and includes 15 minutes of all-new, never-before-seen content.

As I said.

 

[Primal Slayer]

As I said.

Extra 15min doesn't change anything. They took what was a series and put it together into 1 big piece.

WB was still anti female dtv and did not produce it for dtv.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Extra 15min doesn't change anything. They took what was a series and put it together into 1 big piece.

WB was still anti female dtv and did not produce it for dtv.

It's called Vixen: The Movie. They re-edited it along with 15 minutes additional footage. It has it's own IMDb page. Plenty of people regard it as a movie. If you don't, that's up to you.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I just watched this at the weekend. A great little movie, featuring wonderful performances from Conroy, Daly and Brown.

You could really tell they were enjoying being in the room recording with each other. A shame we'll never get another reunion.

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[flickchick85]

Normally my response to this would be to recoil in horror. But in this case A.) It ain't happening, and B.) I'm already getting the Batman I've always wanted, so whatever happens with the Brave and the Bold, I'm good.

But just for the record, Raimi and Batman would be an AWFUL fit, imo. Yes, even for Morrison's.

 

[dhandler01]

Yeah I like Raimi but...no.

 

[Detective Conan]

Normally my response to this would be to recoil in horror. But in this case A.) It ain't happening, and B.) I'm already getting the Batman I've always wanted, so whatever happens with the Brave and the Bold, I'm good.

But just for the record, Raimi and Batman would be an AWFUL fit, imo. Yes, even for Morrison's.

I wholly respect this opinion, and Raimi wouldn’t be my first, or even fifth choice to helm it but I don’t think he’s too bad a fit for the character if you opt to do a more heightened supernatural take with some horror elements thrown in. I certainly think Raimi is a better fit for Batman than say, Zack Snyder ever was for Superman. I can at least see him making a real nice looking Batman movie with supernatural/horror elements thrown into the mix.

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[dhandler01]

I wholly respect this opinion, and Raimi wouldn’t be my first, or even fifth choice to helm it but I don’t think he’s too bad a fit for the character if you opt to do a more heightened supernatural take with some horror elements thrown in. I certainly think Raimi is a better fit for Batman than say, Zack Snyder ever was for Superman. I can at least see him making a real nice looking Batman movie with supernatural/horror elements thrown into the mix.

He really isn't. Sorry but Raimi just is all wrong for Batman no matter what version it is. There are way better characters in the DCU he would be better suited for but almost none of them are the A-Listers at this point.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Even though I'm very much looking forward to Gunns Superman Legacy, I was totally on board with a Raimi helmed Superman film. I don't agree at all with those that say he shouldn't touch any of the big DC heroes. I feel like that's more a subjective thing for those that don't care for Raimi's style than anything else.

 

[flickchick85]

Even though I’m far from enthused by the choice of Gunn, I consider Raimi not doing Legacy a bullet dodged. He would’ve done EXACTLY the kind of “plucked out of the ‘70’s” pastiche version I just desperately want them to avoid.

 

[dhandler01]

Even though I'm very much looking forward to Gunns Superman Legacy, I was totally on board with a Raimi helmed Superman film. I don't agree at all with those that say he shouldn't touch any of the big DC heroes. I feel like that's more a subjective thing for those that don't care for Raimi's style than anything else.

I like Raimi but I just don't see it. It just would seem so dated.

 

[emielaen]

I like Raimi, but I wouldn't want him on anything announced so far. Definitely not Batman.

 

[Lily Adler]

Even though I’m far from enthused by the choice of Gunn, I consider Raimi not doing Legacy a bullet dodged. He would’ve done EXACTLY the kind of “plucked out of the ‘70’s” pastiche version I just desperately want them to avoid.

The Dutch angles, FC!

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Even though I’m far from enthused by the choice of Gunn, I consider Raimi not doing Legacy a bullet dodged. He would’ve done EXACTLY the kind of “plucked out of the ‘70’s” pastiche version I just desperately want them to avoid.

I genuinely don’t think Raimi is half the storyteller Gunn is. Gunn isn’t perfect, but I think Raimi is an aggressively shallow filmmaker no matter how much depth people read into his movies that I truly don’t think is actually there.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I genuinely don’t think Raimi is half the storyteller Gunn is. Gunn isn’t perfect, but I think Raimi is an aggressively shallow filmmaker no matter how much depth people read into his movies that I truly don’t think is actually there.

It's all down to personal taste, but Darkman, The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man 1 & 2 and Drag me to Hell are all miles beyond anything Gunn has ever produced.

Gunn has always been kind of... there for me. In fact, his most interesting and memorable work is his Scooby Doo duology. Nothing else has clicked fully for me, despite the solidness of the Guardians trilogy.