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Very sad news.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.html

[The project underwent a complete reboot in early 2024 and received a new director, despite already accumulating over $100 million in development costs.]

The highly anticipated Wonder Woman has faced a lot of development challenges and the big rumor of late is that Warner Bros. Games started over last year with a fresh with a new direction. The project underwent a complete reboot in early 2024 and received a new director, despite already accumulating over $100 million in development costs.

The game, which was announced three years ago and promised to deliver a single-player, open-world experience, has struggled to meet its creative goals. Monolith Productions, known for their work on Middle-earth: Shadow of War, leads the development of this ambitious project.

Gaming industry experts estimate the release is still several years away. The substantial investment and recent leadership changes signal Warner Bros. Games' commitment to getting the Wonder Woman adaptation right, though questions remain about the project's future.

https://9meters.com/entertainment/games/the-troubled-wonder-woman-game-was-rebooted-in-early-2024-with-a-new-director-after-warner-bros-games-reportedly-spent-over-100-million

The article even mentioned that cancellation for the game is still a possibility. They probably overhauled the game to make it a Games-as-a-service product because they were expecting that awful Suicide Squad game to be a hit. Morons.

I know this has nothing to do with Wonder Woman on film, but once again, it's another example of WB screwing up Wonder Woman and DC in general.

The screenwriter for Coyote vs Acme said the ongoing talks on whether or not to shop the film to another studio is still ongoing, though admitted everyone involved with the film is heartbroken about the situation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240311150101/https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/coyote-vs-acme-screenwriter-samy-burch-film-might-be-released-1234952737/

Nearly a year later and no progress whatsoever. Seems CvA is dead and buried, but Will Forte expresses his anger over the whole situation yet again.

"My thoughts were that it's a f***ing bullsh*t," Forte playfully replied before getting more serious, adding, "It is such a delightful movie. It deserves so much better ... I can't tell you possibly why the decision was made to not release it, but it makes my blood boil and thank you for asking me about it because I like talking about the movie."

Forte went on to explain how he doesn't "want people to forget what they did to this [movie] ... I appreciate them letting us make it, but don't let us make this thing that we fall in love with and then not show it. I mean, I would understand if the thing sucked, but it's really good."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/will-forte-blood-boil-coyote-vs-acme-shelved-1236129059/

Robert Eggers's darkly beautiful remake of the silent 1922 horror classic Nosferatu is a hit with critics and audiences alike, with many praising its stunning visuals, intense performances, gothic atmosphere, and neverending sense of dread. Set in 19th-century Europe, 2024's Nosferatu tells the story of the ancient and reclusive Count Orlok and his bloody quest to make an innocent young woman his eternal bride. While on its surface, the film has little in common with Tim Burton's 1992 superhero flick Batman Returns – other than the fact that they're both helmed by visionary directors – a closer look reveals that there are actually a fair number of similarities between the two films.

In fact, this is something that was confirmed by Eggers himself, who stated recently on an episode of the Happy Sad Confused Podcast, "I was watching on one of these flights... I threw on Batman Returns and, like, snowy, gothic, atmosphere of that movie is, it's quite like, shockingly similar to a lot of the stuff we were doing here, which is something that I never really considered at all. But Wayne Manor, like, doesn't look a hell of a lot different than Grűnewald Manor. I have got to say except for falling apart. So that was kind of interesting."

Once you see the similarities, it becomes difficult to unsee them. While Eggers doesn't outright say that Batman Returns directly influenced the aesthetics of Nosferatu, it's possible that certain elements from Burton's film crept into his thinking from a previous viewing of the film without his realizing it. Or it may simply be an example of parallel thinking; after all, both Burton and Eggers have used heavy gothic elements in almost all of their respective films, though Burton's use of the moody visual style tends to lean a slightly more playful direction than Eggers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250210222416/https://comicbook.com/movies/news/nosferatu-robert-eggers-batman-returns-connection-explained/




I saw Nosferatu a little over a month ago. The story was quite out there, but visually it's a masterpiece - the kind of film you could pause on a shot and have it as a picture hung up on your wall. I would have to agree with the assertion that Eggers and Burton's gothic and artistic sensibilities, from scene composition to lighting, perhaps made the comparisons with BR more coincidental than anything. Nevertheless, it shows what a unique film that BR still is, that even film students and film directors still talk about it to this day as a piece of art. It's a reminder that not many superhero films can do that.

https://youtu.be/AzMo-FgRp64

Visually it looks very good, with only the CGI on The Thing feels a little off. I like the shot of Johnny Storm rising out of orbit, which feels very Superman-like.

Whether or not the film itself will be good, however, remains to be seen.

Some props are being sold and one of the covers features Bruce Wayne with a Gotham Globe paper

Kilmer wearing the glasses in public must've been a deliberate decision to retain some of Keaton's characteristics. Keaton wore them in private while studying in the Batcave, and Kilmer wore them mostly in public, such as the time you see him meeting Edward Nigma at Wayne Enterprises. As if it was a conscious creative decision to make Bruce more open and less introverted over the course of the Burton era and Forever.

Then again, I might be reading a bit too much into it, haha.

According to people who have seen David Ayer's cut of Suicide Squad, Batfleck is still a capable fighter during an underwater tussle with Killer Croc, by using his body to grapple and subdue him. Below is a script excerpt for the allegedly filmed scene.



Makes me wonder if there is any more unseen footage of Batfleck.

https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/183561/harley-quinn-fartacular-silent-butt-deadly

Really, DC? You're going to publish this gross stupidity to the market? I thought the comics side of the business had some standards. Not even the most woke comic out there would stoop to this level.

Unbelievable.

I saw Sonic The Hedgehog 3 a few days ago, and thought the shot where Sonic and Shadow charging towards each other mirrored the shot of Superman and Zod clashing with each other during the Battle of Metropolis in MOS. But others have noticed that Sonic 3 is the latest example to copy the Superman punch on Zod.

https://youtu.be/CSJLROxeqzM

Nevermind the bloated cast list, what's the budget on this?

Gunn denies it, but it's documented that the budget costs $363 million. I'm sure Hollywood's creative accounting will do whatever it takes to make it look less expensive. The Flash's budget was supposed to be $220 million, but The Hollywood Reporter later revealed its real budget was $300 million and possibly more, thus making it more of a flop than it already was.

I'll say it before, and I'll say it again: it goes to show how hypocritical how Snyder got heavily criticised for "rushing" the Justice League in BvS, but then turn around be sycophants for justifying the amount of other superheroes in a Superman movie. Idiotic excuses like it's "similar to the DCAU".

A friend of mine showed me the trailer against my wishes because he wasn't impressed with it. What can I say? It's rubbish. Everything about it looks cheap, from the cinematography, the VFX, the costumes. I gotta love how Gunn stated took inspiration from Richard Donner AND Zack Snyder, knowing he sabotaged Cavill's return. But you can see how derivative the shots are from many other Superman movies, with Superman and Lois floating up in the air holding each other, a shot of an angry crowd showing their contempt for Superman similar to the Capitol scene in BvS. Knowing Gunn, he'll use Krypto for cheap sentimental factor and possibly crude attempt at humour, if that awful GOTG Vol. 2 is anything to go by, and will shake up all the darkness in his film with cheap jokes and hokey attempts at "hope and optimism". I'm also not impressed that Clark Kent is going to be socially awkward again. Not only by the goofy broccoli hair but even in modern-day quirky stereotypes which I despise.

Joker, as much as I don't care for Ethan Van Sciver, he wasn't enthused by the trailer and even called out Guy Gardner's appearance from wig to costume "a humiliation". If costume designs look much better in an Arrowverse TV show than a big-budget feature film then that's a serious problem.

As I've said many times before, Gunn has hijacked the DC brand to line up his own pockets. The vast majority of stuff he greenlit are stuff he wrote, including crap like Creature Commandos where a fifty something year old Rick Flagg Sr apparently sleeps with teenage girls and Doctor Phosphorus gives enemies the middle fingers as he melts them to death, and another season of Peacemaker where you're subjected to this stupidity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gWkJTp0Ld8

https://youtu.be/A6_yCaI-grs

I don't care if the joke is about how stupid Peacemaker the character is, why the f*** would you associate such toilet humour with Superman? Do people seriously want this garbage to be part of the DC brand?

To demonstrate what a farce this soft reboot of the DC franchise on film is, it's now officially revealed that Jason Momoa is playing Lobo in the Supergirl reboot. Ten years ago, I'd say that's perfect casting. Now? That's just stupid for two reasons: 1) you go from playing Aquaman to a lesser-known character in the eyes of the public who'll definitely be a goofy clown (and let's face it, Momoa is lowering his standards like Chris Hemsworth by appearing in dumb comedies and commercials), and 2) this makes the DC timeline even more nonsensical as Peacemaker is confirmed to be canon - except for the JL cameo. What sort of world-building is this?

If people still think James Gunn is a great choice to be in charge of DC despite all the controversial sh*t surrounding him both professionally and personally and his juvenile at best, creepy at worst sense of humour...all I can say this without getting censored even further is God help them.

I guess typing all this out, maybe I did figure it out? And it basically comes down to smoke and mirrors. I'm being tricked into liking this, when I want to organically like it. I can see the bunny in the hat, and they're trying to gaslight me into thinking this is real magic, and that I didn't see anything. I want the these movies to succeed. I love DC, and I don't want these things to fail, but damn, are they making it hard right now.

I dunno, whatever....

For me, they've made it impossible. The Justice League saga, attempts to gaslight everyone over The Flash and squandering Keaton's Batman comeback, and the non-stop dirty politicking that screws up everything they promise to deliver. As much as I like DC characters, why support a brand where the decision makers treat everyone from creatives to fans with utter contempt?