So now that the DC Cinematic Universe has really been kicked off with Man of Steel,
Batman v Superman, and Suicide Squad, I thought I’d talk about the future lineup for this
universe.
And also some potential movies that will probably happen but still don’t have a release date.
So, let’s get into this, going in order of release starting off with Wonder Woman
in June 2017.
I’ll keep my thoughts on this brief, because I just talked about the trailer in my Comic
Con video.
So click here or the link down below to see that.
My overall thoughts are, this actually looks pretty great now.
I was kind of skeptical about this, especially after Michelle McClaren left, but at least
based on that trailer, this looks really cool.
I like Gal Gadot in this role, Chris Pine looks really good in this, and this actually
looks qutie funny.
Mixing humor and some silliness with some more serious ideas is how most of the best
superhero movies are made in my opinion.
The action here also looks great, this has a bit of a Captain America: The First Avenger
vibe to it, which is a movie that I really enjoyed, and all in all I’m really looking
forward to this.
Then let’s move on to the Justice League movie in November of 2017.
Again, already talked about the trailer in my Comic Con video, click here or the link
down below.
My brief thoughts are that the trailer looks really cool, but we should also keep in mind
that most of the trailers for Batman v Superman looked pretty awesome too.
I’m not saying this can’t be great, I’m just saying anything can look cool with the
right editing and music behind it.
But besides that, I do think this movie will be better than Man of Steel or BvS.
I’m pretty sure Zack Snyder had complete control over Batman v Superman, which didn’t
turn out too great.
Like I’ve said before, I think Snyder does a really good job with visuals, I just think
his story-telling isn’t the best.
So now I think he’s gotten some help in that department, and so hopefully this will
have the great visuals that Snyder always has while also having a coherent story.
There also seems to be a really big tonal shift here, at least in that footage we saw
this looks way more self-aware.
The characters and costumes to me at least all look pretty cool so far.
And also, I just wanna talk about Superman here.
Superman is almost definitely coming back in this movie, and so I wanna say, DC.
Please do not show that or even a hint of that in a trailer.
Don’t Doomsday us with this.
I can imagine the final trailer coming out and after the title fades someone says some
dramatic line and you see a glimpse of the Superman symbol.
I can totally imagine that happening, so I just wanna say DC, please, if Superman is
coming back in this, save it for the movie.
Alright, that’s about it.
Looks pretty awesome, but it could come out kind of average.
Then after that there’s the Flash, which will be hitting cinemas in March of 2018.
This is going to be directed by Rick Famuyiwa, and I’m sorry if I mispronounced that.
He’s the director of Dope, which is a great, underrated, very unique movie that you should
definitely check out.
So that’s already a huge plus.
The movie is going to be written by Seth Grahame-Smith, who wrote Dark Shadows, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire
Hunter, and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, so that’s not extremely promising.
But apparently, and this is news to me, Phil Lord and Chris Miller will also be writing
this.
They’re the guys behind the Jump Street movies and The Lego Movie, two of the funniest
guys making movies now if you ask me, so if that’s true then that’s incredible!
The movie will star Ezra Miller as the Flash and Kiersey Clemons as Iris West.
Clemons was in Dope and Neighbors 2, and you’ll know who Iris is if you watch the Flash TV
show.
Honestly, based on all of this info, I’m pretty excited for this.
I am interested to see how the super speed slow motion stuff is going to be done here.
We got a little look in the Justice League trailer, but we’ve now seen 3 different
pretty big budget super speed superheroes and how that crazy slow mo stuff looks.
I don’t think anything can ever beat the Quicksilver scene from Days of Future Past,
but I’m hoping they try some new and really creative stuff here in terms of action.
And with this director, they probably will.
Next up there’s Aquaman in July 2018.
This is going to be directed by James Wan, who is kind of a modern horror movie legend.
He’s directed Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring, Insidious 2, and The Conjuring 2.
Plus he’s produced a number of other horror films, and recently he stepped into the action
genre with Furious 7, which was pretty successful, to say the least.
So yeah, this guy can make some pretty quality movies and some pretty cool action, and he’s
said that this will have a light tone with also a few horror elements in there.
The movie will be written by Geoff Johns, who I guess is kind of the Kevin Fiege of
this DC movie universe, and also co-written by the writer of Gangster Squad, which isn’t
super promising, but whatever.
It’ll obviously star Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Amber Heard as Mera, and supposedly Willem
Dafoe as this guy.
So this all in all sounds really interesting to me.
Next up is Shazam which is coming out I believe in April
2019.
Although we don’t know a lot about this yet, I’m actually pretty pumped for this.
The big thing that we know so far is that future President Dwayne The Rock Johnson is
going to be playing the villain, Black Adam.
While I think he would’ve worked better as Shazam himself, this is still pretty great
casting.
That’s pretty much all we know so far, although I do remember hearing a while back that this
would have a lighter tone and be more disconnected from the DC universe, so I’m excited to
also see maybe kind of a more stand alone thing.
Then there’s Justice League 2 in June 2019.
Since we haven’t seen Justice League 1 yet, there’s not much to say here.
I’m guessing they’re gonna finally do Darkseid in this, great.
That’s pretty much it as of right now.
Cyborg is then hitting cinemas in April of 2020.
Again, we still don’t know much about this.
We still haven't seen much of Ray Fisher in this role, we don’t know the director, we
don’t know the plot, we don’t know the villain.
Really, there’s not a lot to say about this yet.
And finally there’s the Green Lantern movie, or I guess Green Lantern Corps in July 2020.
We also don’t really have any info on this, but I’m pumped to see more of a Green Lantern
team-up movie.
Hopefully we get John Stewart in this, the Green Lantern not the Daily Show host, because
he’s always been my favorite Green Lantern.
Now just to wrap this up, some other DC movies that’ll probably be coming out in the future,
they just don’t have an official release date yet.
First up there’s the Lobo movie.
Sure.
There isn’t much info about this, apparently Jason Fuchs, I’m not sure how to pronounce
this, I’m sorry, but this guy will be writing it.
He doesn’t have the best track record, though.
Then there’s the solo Batman movie, which will probably be called the Batman and probably
will be out in 2018.
Can’t wait for this.
Ben Affleck’s a fantastic director as well as a great Bruce Wayne, he’s also gonna
be writing this with Geoff Johns, there’s a chance that this could take inspiration
from The Red Hood storyline, and overall this is shaping up to be amazing.
Then there’s a solo Superman sequel.
I remember when people were saying George Miller was gonna do this.
While I would love to see that, that’s probably not gonna happen.
Honestly, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I think Henry Cavill is a great Superman.
I just hope in this sequel they give him more to do than be sad and punch things.
There’s already been talk of Suicide Squad 2 and a Harley Quinn movie.
Just being honest here, this video is pre-recorded, I made this before I saw Suicide Squad.
But by the time this goes up I will have seen it.
So if I say I liked Harley Quinn in my review, I’ll probably be pumped for a stand alone
movie.
If I say I liked the movie overall, I’ll probably be pumped for the sequel.
There’s apparently going to be a Booster Gold movie.
Fine.
I liked his episode on Justice League Unlimited, so there’s that.
And finally, yet again, people are still talking about Guillermo del Toro’s Justice League
Dark movie.
This has been going since 2012, recently del Toro dropped off from the project, and overall
I’m pretty sure this movie is dead.
We did however recently get to see this test animation for Swamp Thing, so that’s pretty
neat.
So those were my thoughts on the future of the DC Cinematic Universe.
What do you think of this whole lineup?
And which movie are you most looking forward to?
Let me know all of your thoughts down below in the comments.
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