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jobloffski -> RE: Yet Another JLA rumour (5/7/2012 10:07:49 AM)
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My suggestion:
Start with a JLA movie rather than a series of Lead Ins, because it would take years to get a JLA movie otherwise, during which time other Avengers films would have happened along with lots of individual hero films, meaning DC looking like bigger Johnny-come lately to the party chumps than they need to, with the party possibly already winding down, because reardless of the differences between team members, there's only so much superhero team up action people can take before the non comic book nerd audience starts thinkig same old, same old.
Suggested plot structure:
Have the JLA form informally over the course of the film. Each of the heros is following their own investigation, which leads them to encounter other heroes along the way, because their investigation is leading them to a plot cooked up by a team of baddies from their respective story universes.
Start the film as though its a Superman or Batman film (the most recognisable figures for the mass audience) then have one encounter the other as their investigations lead them to meet. Have these two as the core of the film to aid audience identification, with other heroes encountered along the way to a final showdown with the baddie league.
This keeps audience familiarity with characters to a maximum, keeps effects budget down (because until the latter part of the film not all herows are in the story) and allows the film to start small, then exponentially grow. Introducing heroes this way allows the risk (and time factor) involved in making a team up film to be minimised and whichever characters work best in the team up can then have an origin film.
Tease, with a Batman, Superman dominated JLA leave people wanting more, instead of taking around five years to get to the point Marvel are at now, with every lead in film for an untested character a potential DISASTER given the amount of origin films there have been over the last five years and the potential for people to simply be dog sick of such a story being told over and over and over again (for non fans, the basics of origin stories are very, very, very, repetitive).
More to the point, DC playing catch up with Marvel leaves them open to very negative things for the JLA property:
-Copying Marvel's strategy leaves the rival company to be able to continually PR 'They're copying us, therefore we must be better
-Playing catch up means Marvel will see what DC put on the screen, and play one-upmanship, outgunning (or at least seeking to outgun) DC's every move and diluting what what DC are going for, because they'll have to be trying to be more impressive than Marvel, but anywhere it seems the JLA may go, The Avengers can get there first, they're already up and running, and may have nabbed all the best places a team up movie can go in terms of threats and team dynamics/tensions first.
To recap: dive straight into a JLA movie, because otherwise, the appeal for such a property and the places it can go will inevitably be less in five or more years because the concept will be old news and the JLA would appear to many to be just another overblown team up slugfest. Better to spend up to 300m on an epic team origin movie with room for future character exploitation than spend five years or more, at least five times as much money, to arrive at a party as a cool guest, but after all the best pickings have been nabbed, and have Marvel crow about that forever.
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