{"id":50215,"date":"2015-04-29T17:34:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/the-battle-for-the-dc-cinematic-universe.html"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:38:19","slug":"the-battle-for-the-dc-cinematic-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/the-battle-for-the-dc-cinematic-universe.html","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for the DC Cinematic Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It really sounds like there&#39;s a lack of clear vision for what they want to do with the DCCU as a whole. Zack Snyder seems to have a lot of influence (for better or worse), but it&#39;s unclear if he has anything to say over films outside his direct control, and there are a lot of layers of WB suits sticking their fingers in as well.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, they&#39;re soliciting multiple scripts for each project, apparently hoping that someone will do something that they like (and that hopefully won&#39;t conflict with someone else&#39;s movie).<\/p>\n<p>I really want the DCCU to succeed, whether I like any given project or not (though that would be nice, too). I&#39;m just not seeing that happen as of yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/superman-batman-dcs-real-battle-792190'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/o0cAmqFOT54Mrg8avGLDat8JVG3tParhKIdxYRjTKDxN48Xwu701y9iyvDDsP-rH908ne90kkD0S2A9__R_TgOvraoBNswqCbI9VoLw3e2q_CLmZowEgQCRkFcLakJx7P-kA5e0FlufUDg8S193oblTfdkSQiH5uTcudKvM=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/superman-batman-dcs-real-battle-792190'>Superman vs. Batman? DC&#8217;s Real Battle Is How to Create Its Superhero Universe<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThis story first appeared in the May 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fcz2n1EpWR2'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really sounds like there&#39;s a lack of clear vision for what they want to do with the DCCU as a whole. Zack Snyder seems to have a lot of influence (for better or worse), but it&#39;s unclear if he has anything to say over films outside his direct control, and there are a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/the-battle-for-the-dc-cinematic-universe.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Battle for the DC Cinematic Universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,11,852,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43465,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/huh-another-dc-comic-i-might-have-to-pick-up.html","url_meta":{"origin":50215,"position":0},"title":"Huh. 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