This all leads into a Justice League two-parter with three stand-alone films ( The Flash, Aquaman, Shazam) in between them and a Cyborg and Green Lantern movie coming after the second Justice League film. We got Man of Steel, followed by Batman v Superman (a two-hander with high profile cameos), a Suicide Squad movie (which may or may not be stand-alone even with copious Batman-related cameos), and a Wonder Woman movie. Instead of doing a handful of stand-alone films and then topping it off with a super-team up spectacular, they are basically treating the ensemble adventures as periodic bumps in the ongoing road, less season finale blow-outs than mid-season mythology episodes. It's not just the relative order that differs the DC Comics films from the Marvel game plan, although that bears noting. The choices they have made with the next two movies basically puts the entire fate of the DC Comics Cinematic Universe (DCCU) in the hands of its next two films. With the caveat that we haven't seen any of these DC films outside of Man Of Steel and I have no idea if the likes of Suicide Squad or Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will be any good (and the stuff we're hearing about Wonder Woman is head-smashingly depressing), it is not necessarily a bad thing that Warner Bros./Time Warner Entertainment is going about their superhero universe at least a little bit differently than the Walt Disney/Marvel one. But it should also be noted that their strategy carries a higher degree of immediate risk as well as immediate reward. The alleged good news is that the films being planned are allegedly (accidentally?) more filmmaker-controlled as opposed to producer-controlled. The films on the horizon aren't as explicitly unified as the Marvel films have been up to this point, with no singular voice (such as Marvel's Kevin Feige) guiding the ship and thus a lot of initial chaos with screenplays being tossed on a whim and competing writers for the same movie. I won't regurgitate the whole Hollywood Reporter piece that dropped yesterday morning that discussed some behind-the-scenes gossip about the overall state of the DC Comics franchise, but the crux of it is that the DC Comics ship isn't exactly sailing smoothly.
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