Geez, compared to the doom and gloom of the ”Misc. Comics Films” thread, this place is positively sunny. You would think with the recent announcements, the whole thing is a complete disaster and a dumpster fire. It’s like they want the whole thing to fail.
I mean, after their previous DCEU crashed and burned and some of their questionable choices with their previous output previous, and the current head of Warner Bros. canceling and offloading a bunch of projects for tax write offs, I get it. However, this is the first time where they’ve had somebody in the DC Films division over at Warner Bros. overseeing every single project that really seems to love and get all of this stuff. This is the first time where I actually feel hope and some sense of direction for this franchise. I mean, just from watching that six minute video, you can feel his effusive excitement and eagerness to work on this and make it the best that it can be. I never got that from the DCEU. Also, they’re doing what I’ve been wanting them to do In in the first place from the beginning: not immediately rushing into and jumping ahead to things, but starting off small, building a foundation and taking their time.
Sure, their handling of the whole Ezra Miller situation has me scratching my head, but they are also in a very tenuous situation where they are having to inherit the baggage from the previous regime and transition to what they actually want to do. DC Films’ image is in a very tenuous place right now. It’s not as simple as just flipping a switch or tossing out everything that came before and doing what they want to do right away. They literally can’t afford to do that. These things take time, patience and cost a whole lot of money. I imagine, some time after this year’s projects have been released, and they finish making their money at the box office, I guarantee we’ll get and have a much better idea of how those projects and the people involved are going forward. Hopefully, those decisions include stuff like “Ezra Miller let go” and “Zachary Levi no longer involved with Shazam”. I’m waiting to see what happens first before I make any judgments.
However, if they do continue forward like a lot of people on here are suspecting and they do eventually crash and burn, I will definitely be one of the first to call them out on it.
