Deftones

and adam sandler as the riddler.

hanshotfirst1138

At this point....

RocShemp

This movie is sounding more and more like a live action remake of Justice League: War. I bet Aquaman appears in a mid-credits teaser.

Double_Oh_7

WTF is the budget going to be on this? The cast alone has to be astronomical? At some point it's going to be impossible to make a profit on these things.

Obi-Wanma

They haven't really cast anyone who would command any real money other than maybe Affleck.

taffer

Most of them are probably only going to be cameo appearances to set up the Justice League. Cyborg I bet will just be his civilian persona, Vic Stone, and he won't actually become Cyborg until the JL movie.


Makes sense considering Justice League: War was an animated adaptation of the the New 52 comic book origin story of the Justice League. Although I doubt DC will blow their wad and use Darkseid this early. He's going to be the big bad, like Thanos in the MCU, that will only be briefly seen until much later.


According to wikipedia, the Avengers budget was $220 million. That's a pretty normal budget for big blockbusters, and it has a cast similar to this. Days of Future Past was also $200 million.

RocShemp

I dunno. DC seems hell-bent on going for the climax before the build up. At this point, they're likely to make this movie the whole fight versus Darkseid and the following standalone movies explain what the fuck was even going on and how did they get to that point.

Kinda like how the Final Crisis issues where all over the place, jumping from one action scene to the next, but the actual plot was found in the comic tie-ins.

taffer

I guess DC could want to rush and get Darkseid out on the big screen before Marvel does with Thanos.


That's just how Grant Morrison writes. Everything he writes is a big WTF.

Shazam

All of them. Even ones you haven't heard of, such as Doorman and Poopflinger X.

Why So Blu?

Waits for the haters too scream that Aquaman should be a blonde hair blue eyed character like the comic version...

Michael Corvin

He'd easily pass for Aqualad:

slop101

They probably did that to keep Marvel from casting him as Namor, where he'd be MUCH better cast.

He's got Namor's scowl down pat!

PhantomStranger

He definitely would have made an awesome Namor.

I plan to make a cameo in the eventual Justice League Europe movie. I saw all of these other heroes getting movie roles and contacted my agent.

taffer

I thought Universal had the Namor movie rights. I looked on wikipedia to be sure, and apparently in August 2013 Kevin Feige said that is still true, but then more recently Borys Kit said that the rights have gone back to Marvel. I have no idea who Kit is, but I think I would trust Feige more on this.

JumpCutz

This is ridiculous. Aquaman should be a blonde hair blue eyed character like the comic version!

My Other Self

At this point they really should remove Batman V Superman from the title and just stick with the Dawn of Justice moniker.

The only reason Batman's name is in there is to get more people's asses in the seats.

Shazam

Assseatman is also in the movie.

Paul_SD

Who says he won't?
It's clear they had to go this way to make "that guy whose superpower is to talk to fishes" palatable to the sneering 14yr olds (in emotional maturity if not body).
Makes sense to make him the most physically dominating of all of them.

But for all intents and purposes, he's going to be essentially Namor here.

DaveyJoe

I like Jason Momoa but I think Aquaman is the stupidest superhero imaginable. Talks to fishes? C'mon, how lame can you get??

Paul_SD

C'mon Davey...you're not using your imagination.

I'm sure the Aquaman Synder and Goyer do will be angry and mean-spirited enough to finally make people go " wow...they finally made him cool!" "yeah, who'd a thought it"

slop101

Hey, Vincent Chase already played Aquaman in James Cameron's version...

taffer

You repeat this shit all the time, and it gets really old really fast.

You should change your avatar to a grumpy old man sitting on the porch shaking your cane at all the kids to get off your lawn. That's exactly the impression I get when I read your nonsense.

We get it. You wish comics were still like they were when you were a kid reading them in the 1950s. You have rose-colored nostalgia glasses and think everything old was so much better.

There definitely are still some "fun" comics today. For example, the comic scans above show a lighthearted poke at the public perception of Aquaman. "Dark and edgy" may be the majority, but it's not how EVERY comic is.

My Other Self

If I'm not mistaken, his old avatar was of a grumpy looking old man wearing a bowler.

Paul_SD

No. But dark and edgy has been the mandate for DC characters ever since TDK made a billion dollars.
I don't know if it qualifies as irony but the context of this characters appearance is that he's pissed off about what the world engine did to the eco system of the Indian Ocean.
And- in that context- I actually have no problem with a usually lighter portrayed character being surly and angry. It makes narrative sense and it flows out of consequences from the first film...which is a good thing.

So I wasn't really being facetious when I made the crack about Aquaman being palatable because he'll be (yet another) angry bad ass. That's exactly the way they are going to go with him and I do think that plus the fact he'll be used sparingly, will make him seem much cooler than most people expect.

stingermck

Just need these 2 scenes in a movie: