TW sux - too many suits having to put a “personal stamp” on every project. Too many focus groups deciding how the movies should be made and not enough directors like del Toro who have a set of b@llz of their own. Too much obsessing over toy, tv and other tie-ins. Marvel will kick their butts for the next 5 years, minimum, because while DC wrings its hands over “flying safe,” and sits stalled on the runway, Marvel will be out flying - safe, reckless, whatever.

Yes, he made a movie called The Broken Hearts Club and he’s also executive producer of Brothers and Sisters, Dirty-Sexy-Money for ABC and a couple of other projects that elude me at the moment.

BTW — You forgot ‘Constantine’ to add to the WB list. That flick’s right up there with Catwoman and Steel.

Yes, he made a movie called The Broken Hearts Club and he’s also executive producer of Brothers and Sisters, Dirty-Sexy-Money for ABC and a couple of other projects that elude me at the moment.

BTW — You forgot ‘Constantine’ to add to the WB list. That flick’s right up there with Catwoman and Steel.

Well, then … make GOOD movie of Dr. Fate or The Creeper. I’m sure everyone felt the same way about BLADE a decade ago.

It has happened … rarely …

For one thing, most movie companies want to MAKE and DISTRIBUTE movies of their most popular products. Warner Bros. wants to “line them up” and then “fly them safely,” but that still doesn’t give us a movie.

Imagine: new films and/or comics that have NOTHING to do with 50+ years of continuity– that way, you can go to a film or read a book and actually risk being surprised by a story, as opposed to picking which plots points and/or character motivations were lifted from which work, a la ‘The Dark Knight’.

I want fresh fiction, not “new products”.

Personal opinion (with no data to support it) is that the current comics version of Dr. Fate or Creeper would make for terrible live-action movies. Manhunter, Captain Marvel/Shazam, and even Plastic Man (with Seth Rogen as Woozy Winks) would be a lot of fun.

Me? I would opt for a movie based on Denny O’ Neil and Denys Cowan’s run on the Question -

and maybe a Atom and Hawkman team up adventure.

Phantom Stranger?

Challengers of the Unknown?

Or perhaps Deadman?

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Heck… grab $10 Million, a few decent actors, and make Proposition Player!

Or use Smallville as a backdoor pilot/screen test.

Or, you could do it the old fashioned way … stay the hell out of the creative team’s way, let them produce a good film, set a release date, and then start marketing it.

When did Hollywood ever work this way?

A kung fu chopping, kicking, gun blasting, pulpy masterpiece of action…

What I would like to see: smaller movies of the lesser known, but interesting DC or Marvel superheroes. Something like Blade.

08/18/08 at 2:51 pm
I vote for Jimmy Palmiotti.”

That’s the beauty of Jimmy: he’s qualified for most of these slots.

Or, you could do it the old fashioned way … stay the hell out of the creative team’s way, let them produce a good film, set a release date, and then start marketing it.

Noveck’s comment seems a bit condescending.

Oops. Wrong gig.

I read somewhere when he was asked how this was determined, he stated that whenever fans are asked which is the next DC animated film they want to see, Titans is always at the bottom of the list with more Superman and Batman topping the list.

???

What I’d like to know is when the heck did Mr Noveck start polling fans about their animated films? I’ve never seen one and at most conventions, New Teen Titans Judas Contract is always brought up, requested and mentioned including in all their online promotions for other Direct to Animated film announcements like… Wonder Woman.

Glad to know he’s listening to the fans who requested more Supes and Bats.

I also heard that they’d like to do Creeper and Dr Fate as animated films. Because there’s so much more fan support for the Creeper and Dr Fate that there are for New Teen Titans.

Noveck = Solution?

No wonder Warner can’t get more DC heroes onto the big screen.

“We remain addicted to ridiculous amounts of short-term profit at the expense of actual risk or creativity and are fully prepared to damn our own publishing subsidiaries to the same ignoble fate.”

The bar in which I work is owned by White Wolf; as a result I’ve had occasion to eavesdrop conversations between the CEO and his affiliates. I’ve repeatedly heard the CEO demand that W.W. properties be properly ‘exploited’– without ever considering that the seeming necessity of said exploitation is caused by the company’s own lack of willingness to take risks, and apparently without any awareness that the limited success of such exploitation will invariably spiral down into regular scattershots of unimaginative pap churned out for ever-smaller returns…

Much like every event comic for the last few decades.