Quote:I believe that you could count "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as the next DC film, since America's Best Comics is owned by Wildstorm, which is owned by DC (which is, in turn, owned by Time-Warner). There's also a "Preacher" movie in pre-production, with James Marsden (Cyclops) as Jesse Custer, according to IMDB.
Which reminds me. When's the next decent DC-based film coming out? The Batman franchise floundered (although rumor has it that Warners is retooling it to get back the edge that it had in the first couple films) and the next Superman movie is eternally pre-greenlight, along with their teamup in World's Finest; isn't anyone going to make a film out of any of DC's other properties? The Flash TV series was good, but it was, what, ten years ago or so and lasted less than a season. I think Dr. Fate would make for a good movie, and if someone could do Plastic Man with the same kind of sensibility that infused The Mask they'd have a hit. Hell, the Doom Patrol was always seen as the DC counterpart to the X-Men, why not toss them up on the screen?
Dr. Fate might work, but I think that both he and the Doom Patrol are a little wonky and surreal to make it to mainstream superhero films, especially since they currently seem mostly interested in letting directors play with the mainstream heroes and make the movies a little odder than the comics (I swear, the wacked-out cinematography in "Hulk" made my head hurt; we know it's a comic book character, Mr. Lee, we don't need to be reminded in every frickin' scene change). Plastic Man might be good, especially if they play it as action-comedy.
I'm not sure who has the rights to it, but I heard a rumor that "John Sable: Freelance" was going to be a movie. Both that and Mike Grell's story of Green Arrow, "The Longbow Hunters," would both make excellent films, in my opinion.
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