Justice League : My sum of all fears is Disney buys the rights to DC…

DC is an underdog here but I'm rooting for them. I would hate for WB to sell the rights and Disney pick them up. Disney's writing is too family friendly and hokey for these characters. I don't want them treated like marvel characters at all.

I can't see DC being sold to Disney.





"A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff" The Tenth Doctor explains all.

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I don't want them treated like marvel characters at all

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Like, having personalities? Character development? Having decent motivations? Ocassionally smiling?

"George, you can type this *beep* but you can't say it."

disney are a horrid company, look what they do behind the scenes

I sincerely doubt Disney would want the DC stable of characters. They have their own and having more would just dilute the brand.

Besides they are doing just fine with what their current game plan.

I doubt Disney wants them. They already are churning out 2 to 3 movies a year. They don't need to flood the market. If anything they probably wish other comic book movies would stop.

I can imagine what Disney would do with DC if they bought it though:
I think they would shelve it so the market isn't getting saturated with comic book movies.
Once Marvel movies have run their course I could see Disney now unveiling their DC movie universe.
They would be amazing and be just as good as the Marvel movies.
It would be glorious to finally see DC live action movies that don't make me disappointed.

I love DC comics. Marvel is lame as hell.
But then Disney bought the rights and we have the MCU. Marvel has never been close to as great as it is under Disney.
Why wouldn't you want DC in their hands? Warner Brother does nothing but screw over DC.

Have you ever noticed that the people who say "DC is for adults and Marvel is for kids", are kids?

Marvel movies are too simple. Too plsyed safe. Risk free.

Problem is, no one can ever DEFINE this "Marvel Formula" when pressed about it.

Saying they have a formula is just an excuse.

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Problem is, no one can ever DEFINE this "Marvel Formula" when pressed about it.

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Making good films. DC have yet to discover this secret to success.

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Marvel movies are too simple. Too plsyed safe. Risk free.

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And yet WB are desperate to copy them. The plot of Justice League is basically the same as Avengers - alien artefacts on earth and an alien threat that must be fought by superheroes banding together.

same can be said that Civil war is a copy of BvS. so what? Thanos is just Darksied light. so what? And I don't believe JL will feel like a marvel film. It will just have optimism which is where the story seems to have been going after BVS being the dark times.

They have a political thriller under their belts, CACW was a divisive movie in terms of teams and the choices and actions of the characters, to the point where some people flat out despise characters they used to love, potentially making them less bankable, and they literally have a movie about a talking *beep* raccoon and a humanoid talking *beep* tree. Where in all of that are you getting "risk free"?

"George, you can type this *beep* but you can't say it."

Why do people always seem to assume that Disney is going to buy every single property and company on the planet?

probably due to the volume of properties that they own. they own Star Wars,they own Indiana Jones, they own Winnie the Pooh, they at one time owned part of the Muppets. they have the monopoly on the fairytale market. they pretty much own everything including most of the Marvel characters.


I don't think Disney wants to buy them, i could be wrong and maybe they do want to have a monopoly on the comic book genre.. but i'm not sure it's the best thing for Disney nor DC comics. Also the question becomes, what will happen to the comics if DC is bought up by Disney? will they kill off a line of comics in order to push another (ie kill off X Men to push Inhumans?).

I think if anything, maybe Universal could be interested because they can't really do anything with The Hulk so why not buy properties that they can work with outright instead of begging for permission to make a solo Hulk movie?

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Disney buying the film rights to the DC properties would be just about the only think that could save the DCEU.

This thing has been a straight up fail from the start. And why the DC fans continually gobble this sh*t up without demanding better is beyond me.

A movie starring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman should have been amazing. Instead, Marvel smacks the piss out of it with their 3rd stringers like Ant-Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

That's just pathetic

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Disney's writing is too family friendly and hokey for these characters.

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Perhaps this statement works when the depths of entire bodies of work are considered.

When it comes to movie and television properties, however (mediums that more directly pertain to the target GENERAL audience than comics), then it doesn't get much more family friendly that Superman, Wonder Woman and earlier Batman incarnations.



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I don't see it happening and I wouldn't want it. I love the MCU movies but I do like a bit of variety and would still want DC separate. ON the other hand if Disney did buy them off we might end up getting a DC vs. Marvel crossover.

At least they'd be characters.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

DC has characters. Their all intentionally fractured and damaged.

Batman kills because joker killed robin making him feel his moral compass was a joke. He even says this about his parents death having no meaning.

Superman's public image is tarnished.

Wonder woman walked away from the world of mankind for yet unkown reasons.

Superman sacrifices himself. Batman is inspired by it. He seeks help from wonder woman to find other meta humans which gets her reengaged with human affairs.

The films are about them needing to be the justice league. I like the mantra JL has. something to the effect of they've faced us before but never united

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Disney's writing is too family friendly and hokey for these characters

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Okay, tell me, which DCEU character is written as more damaged, dynamic, unstable, tortured, guilt-ridden, hopeful and sympathetic than The Winter Soldier? Who, in case you didn't notice, is not a family friendly character. Neither is an alcoholic war profiteerer. And those aren't even the villains of the MCU, those are the heroes. So no, they don't have "family friendly" characters. Though I suppose you could easily misconstrue that if you didn't pay attention.

And DC isn't the underdog. They have perhaps the most popular superhero characters of all time. MCU might have the established cinematic universe, but DC have the established characters.

I also don't think you know what the word 'hokey' means, not when DCEU have 'Damaged' tattooed on the Jokers forehead or have Waller unnecessarily shoot up a room, have lines like "Martha" or "I thought she was with you" when Bruce was talking to Wonder Woman not twenty minutes earler. Talk about contrived.

And since you said "Disney's writing", then I suppose I should go ahead and mentioned they killed just about every one in Rogue One. Because, you know, that was Disney. Just thought I should point that out.


"George, you can type this *beep* but you can't say it."

DC has characters. Their all intentionally fractured and damaged.

Batman kills because joker killed robin making him feel his moral compass was a joke. He even says this about his parents death having no meaning.

Superman's public image is tarnished.

Wonder woman walked away from the world of mankind for yet unkown reasons.

Superman sacrifices himself. Batman is inspired by it. He seeks help from wonder woman to find other meta humans which gets her reengaged with human affairs.

The films are about them needing to be the justice league. I like the mantra JL has. something to the effect of they've faced us before but never united

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Disney's writing is too family friendly and hokey for these characters

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Okay, tell me, which DCEU character is written as more damaged, dynamic, unstable, tortured, guilt-ridden, hopeful and sympathetic than The Winter Soldier? Who, in case you didn't notice, is not a family friendly character. Neither is an alcoholic war profiteerer. And those aren't even the villains of the MCU, those are the heroes. So no, they don't have "family friendly" characters. Though I suppose you could easily misconstrue that if you didn't pay attention.

And DC isn't the underdog. They have perhaps the most popular superhero characters of all time. MCU might have the established cinematic universe, but DC have the established characters.

I also don't think you know what the word 'hokey' means, not when DCEU have 'Damaged' tattooed on the Jokers forehead or have Waller unnecessarily shoot up a room, have lines like "Martha" or "I thought she was with you" when Bruce was talking to Wonder Woman not twenty minutes earler. Talk about contrived.

And since you said "Disney's writing", then I suppose I should go ahead and mentioned they killed just about every one in Rogue One. Because, you know, that was Disney. Just thought I should point that out.


"George, you can type this *beep* but you can't say it."

Maybe all that MCU complexity gets lost with lines like " you have a metal arm that's awesome dude!" But Winter Soldier is tortured and dynamic so it works. Lol

"that's awesome dude" was a line that came from a 16 year old kid. And he is tortured, its pretty much a key element of his character. Are you denying that?

"George, you can type this *beep* but you can't say it."

And that line speaks of Spider-Man's character, not The Winter Soldier's. Its also not hokey because its in character with something Spider-Man would say. Do you understand what I'm saying?

"George, you can type this *beep* but you can't say it."

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DC is an underdog

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And at the moment when statements like this have some truth to them you know that at some point something went horribly wrong.

Because Warner Bros is doing such an amazing job with DC??? Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, etc are as 'family friendly' as it gets.

The thing people don't realise is that almost every superhero in their most popular incarnation is family friendly, with only a few exceptions - Wolverine and Daredevil come to mind. A lot of DC heroes are not a part of those exceptions. I'd say that maybe Batman is, and the only reason I say that is because the Nolan trilogy is so popular. I love many DC characters (though not currently as they've been presented in the DCEU), but to call any character ultimately "family friendly" is ridiculous. I mean, look at Marvel's ultimate edition characters. They're *beep* crazy, but that doesn't mean that reflects the characters in their most recognised version. Wonder Woman, Flash, and Superman though? Definately as close to family friendly as you'll find, right up there with Spidey tbh. And thats not a bad thing. I think a lot of people would like to see some faithful adaptions. You can still have a serious movie without compromising the fundamental attributes of the character - e.g. Cap in TWS or again, Batman in TDK, and if Justice League follows the same tone as previous DCEU movies, maybe The Flash, but I'll have to wait to see JL to see how that goes.

"George, you can type this *beep* but you can't say it."