DC and Marvel have been long time comic adversaries. Unfortunately for DC, Marvel has been able to make most of its characters come to life in movies while DC has only really been successful with the Batman trilogy and the Superman series. Green Lantern, on the other hand, became a flop for DC. Everyone is aware about "The Avengers" and its huge success, possibly one of Marvel's big successes. For DC to compete, they must gather their superheroes and let the Justice League rise. After a long time of fighting over the rights to Superman, Warner Bros. finally won. Now, the DC superheroes finally have a chance to team up together. "The Justice League"is aimed to be released in the summer of 2015. A script is still in the works but a director and lead roles are yet to be determined.
The article caught my eye because the title spoke about DC's Justice League. I am well aware that Marvel has pretty much been kicking DC's butt in making its comic characters come alive. I've always wondered when DC was finally going to collectively put its comic characters into one movie. However, unlike Marvel, not all DC comic characters have yet to have their own movies. Only Batman, Superman, and the Green Lantern have had its own movies. I think it might be a disadvantage to DC because a Justice League movie would be introducing characters, such as Flash, that have yet to be embraced by the audience.
As a student, the article taught me that nothing is easy to achieve. Warner Bros. have been fighting for the rights to Superman for a long time. I'm sure that they've wanted to produce a Justice League movie for an extensive amount of time but they haven't been able to without the rights. I learned that to get what you really want, you have to be persistent and not let time or failure get in the way of your goal. As a future filmmaker, I realize that there is really going to be tough competition. I can't let myself get behind, like DC, against major competitors. It would become a great disadvantage because a major competitor could have already made a huge fan base for a successful movie while I have yet to even produce a movie. And even then, I would have to live under a huge shadow that my major competitor would have already established. As a consumer, I've wanted DC to compete against Marvel with a multi-superhero movie such as "The Avengers." I'm not really much of a comic reader, but Marvel has managed to captivate me more than DC. This is most likely due to the fact that Marvel is more versatile with the amount of superheroes it's been able to introduce to the world, while DC has only introduced three superheroes and one of them became a flop.
For the industry, I think a huge question would be "How competitive is it out there?" DC is going to have to kick major butt in a Justice League movie if they even want to come close to what Marvel has already accomplished. There is not doubt that a Justice League movie would be closely critiqued and compared to "The Avengers." It also hurts DC because while a Justice League movie is still in the works, "The Avengers 2" is already under construction. There's obviously a great expectation for DC and if they even want to be in the same competitive stance as Marvel, they have to work extremely hard.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-justice-league-superman-20121018,0,6421111.story
