Black Adam's New 52 Origin

[lordultimus]

Comments

[mrstatham]

Yeah, you would have thought that given Marvel's success in linking film and TV franchises together, DC would have followed that blueprint, given they're clearly pretty desperate to have their own MCU. They have suggested there may be some links between the TV shows and the films, but the bigger TV shows like Arrow and the Flash get, the less resources the films have, especially Arrow, which is gobbling up characters typically outside Ollie's own book like crazy.

As for moving it to avoid Civil War.. I can understand that; Winter Soldier is pretty much THE Marvel movie alongside Avengers and Iron Man 1 - a film that people seem to almost universally like, although I can take or leave Avengers (Whedon is blegh to me) - but given the amount of time they've had making this one, I would have timed it for the New Year, so it isn't really crushed by Star Wars.

[jaybee3]

The people running the TV DC Universe should be running the movie version as well. I have ZERO interest in Green Arrow or Ollie Queen in any shape or form. But so many other DC characters that I do have interest in are appearing in that show that I feel I must check it out.

Likewise I know they hired some other actor to be the Flash for the movie universe but at this point just make Grant Gustin the Flash in the movies (and Melissa Benoist, Supergirl in the Superman films alongside Cavill). Not only would it give the shows themselves more hype but it would remove the need to give origin stories or explain who these characters are. The TV shows could be an extension of the movie universe and vice-versa (especially if you keep the movies the only place where you can see Batman, Superman and WW).