Justice League Will Be A ‘Crowd Pleaser’

Warner Bros. will be much more “hands on” with Justice League

There’s really no question about it now. Despite a huge opening, Batman v Superman has pretty much fizzled out early in its theatrical run and while Warner Bros. seems committed to the rest of the DC slate, some major changes seem to be in store.

In a Variety article, writer Kristopher Tapley notes that it seems Batman v Superman was ultimately a victim of director Zack Snyder actually having far too much creative control, because nobody was really there to enforce a cohesive vision. There is no grand architect at Warner Bros. who really has a plan and actually knows where the next 5 years of movies are leading and how they will get there (and at least tangentially connecting the TV end of things so at least the possibility exists that hey, one day Stephen Amell and Ben Affleck might be in a DC movie together, who knows?). People who would be ideal for such a role (i.e. Geoff Johns) are already stretched incredibly thin and not really able to handle to additional duties such a role would entail.

But it seems the tepid reaction to Batman v Superman has at least woken up the executives at Warner Bros. to the fact that most people did not walk out of Batman v Superman with a positive reaction (not everybody is Jason Mewes, who was super-psyched there were Parademons on a big screen and didn’t care about anything else going on in the movie). Tapley says he’s been told “production exec Jon Berg and Time-Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes are taking more of a hands-on approach now, paying closer attention to overarching story concerns”, and “Justice League will be a crowd-pleaser more suited to Snyder’s talents, and that the upcoming two-part event is ‘extremely kinetic and visual.’ It will be far more straightforward than existential in its handling of superheroes.”

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With a description like that, it almost sounds like Justice League will be 300 with superheroes. Which I might actually be ok with, if Zack Snyder doesn’t kill everyone at the end. Oh god, I could totally see him killing Batman. It happened in Final Crisis against Darkseid. If that’s the ending of Justice League (probably part two mind you), 1: I totally called it and 2: Frakk Zack Snyder.