Folks, superhero movies are dumb. I don’t care how many famous actors fill the roles, how many Oscars you think a performance should get, how many famous directors take on the stories, or how gritty each series is, superhero movies will always involve folks in speedo jumpsuits punching each other into explosions or something along those lines. It’s when you forget how inherently dumb each property is that you’ll run into trouble.
According to Drew McWeeny at HitFix:
Last week was about the fifth time I’ve heard that there is a mandate at Warner Bros. regarding any of the DC superhero films in development, and it’s very simple and direct and to the point.
“No jokes.”
What? While it explains the stupidly serious photos of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman in the rain, it seems like a terrible direction for WB’s nine (NINE) DC comics films going forward. Sure the reasoning is admittedly business sound (apparently it’s because Green Lantern, full of jokes, bombed), but having all of these movies be all same-y and serious is a bad, bad idea. Remember Man of Steel? Oy.
What do you all think? Ready for the gloomy guses?
[via HitFix]
