{"id":28176,"date":"2012-06-07T23:09:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T05:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/warner-seems-to-be-going-big-on-comic-book-movies.html"},"modified":"2012-06-07T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T05:09:03","slug":"warner-seems-to-be-going-big-on-comic-book-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/warner-seems-to-be-going-big-on-comic-book-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"Warner seems to be going big on comic book movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

And they have a billion-plus reasons, Avenger<\/i>-wise, for doing so.<\/p>\n

For the record, I don't see "Aquaman" as being intrinsically successful. With a good writer, director, talent, sure, but nothing about Aquaman makes him an automatic success.<\/p>\n

OTOH, "Suicide Squad" follows a cinematic model that's usually been successful (e.g., "The Dirty Dozen" for starters). \u00a0Licensing disentanglement aside, it should work just fine.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Comicbook.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I feel like Aquaman only really works if you get the guy from Entourage to play him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAquaman and Suicide Squad Movies Listed as In Development at Warner<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn an article released earlier today about Warner Brothers\u2019 move toward exploiting its DC Comics properties in films and television, Variety ran down the usual laundry list of in-development DC movies…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And they have a billion-plus reasons, Avenger-wise, for doing so. For the record, I don't see "Aquaman" as being intrinsically successful. With a good writer, director, talent, sure, but nothing about Aquaman makes him an automatic success. OTOH, "Suicide Squad" follows a cinematic model that's usually been successful (e.g., "The Dirty Dozen" for starters). \u00a0Licensing … Continue reading “Warner seems to be going big on comic book movies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49634,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/20\/aquaman.html","url_meta":{"origin":28176,"position":0},"title":"Aquaman!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Feb-15 6:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"So I guess we're going with Angry Monarch Aquaman in the Justice League movies, rather than Cheerful Beach Blonde Aquaman (http:\/\/youtu.be\/lNQTw4HdzxQ). 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