DC Comics and Warner on Future Movie Plans

The Hollywood Reporter ran a piece that detailed DC Comics’ and Warner Brothers plans for future film adaptations coming from the DC library.

So what’s in the works, and how is DC prepared to compete with Marvel’s domination of the box office? Some of the projects already in development are:

• Green Lantern, which announced last week that Ryan Reynolds would star.
• The Losers, an action adventure tale about an emotionally scarred Special Forces group, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana and Chris Evans, starts shooting this week.
• Jonah Hex, starring Josh Brolin, Megan Fox and John Malkovich, wrapped production recently.
• The Human Target television series will premiere this fall on FOX.

Comics writers Marv Wolfman, Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison are serving as story consultants for some other projects, the only one of which has been identified was The Flash, with a new treatment of the script being produced by Johns. Other projects include Bizarro, Green Arrow and Aquaman – all of which I want to see, but does anyone whose not a comics geek want that? I also want to see a live-action/CGI adaptation of Angel and the Ape, but I don’t recommend anyone actually make it.

The HR article is vague about the future of Superman, citing the lukewarm performance of Superman Returns. However, the court recently ruled that if Warner Brothers didn’t begin production on a new Superman film by 2011, the heirs of the creators’ estates could sue for damages.

I’ve always been a little confused at DC’s (general) lack of success at the movies over the past 20 years. Marvel, which was an unmitigated trainwreck of a company in the 90s came into 2000 kicking ass with the X-Men and Spider-Man franchises, topping it off with last year’s epics Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk. Attaching talent that knows the comics was a good move, but I wonder what would happen if they got Bruce Timm and his team, the people who have made DC animation an incredible plate of awesome, involved.

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