Suicide Squad 2: Gavin O'Connor in talks to write & direct film

~~Leo656~~ · 03-10-2019, 06:52 PM

Yeah, god forbid that someone who has actually read a comic book be put in charge of movies based on comic books. It was worth a shot, Lord knows that it had never been done before or since.

With movies like "Ragnarok" passing for "great cinema", that tells me everything I personally need to know about what people in the "casual audience" want from these movies, and it's nothing good.

GL should be very easy. It's only difficult because the material doesn't lend itself to "goofball comedy" in an age when people demand every super-hero movie be a goofball comedy. It doesn't fit that, but if they play it straight and treat it as the darker and more serious story that it generally is, they know they're going to get yelled at again by the nerds who want everything to be silly. And they simply don't want to risk any more negative ink, especially over what would absolutely be the most expensive movie they'd yet attempted.

They already made a comedic GL movie, and it didn't work. But they're afraid to do it the right way because of people who insist that these movies have no business trying to tell serious stories in the first place. If anything, GL is like a much more serious Star Wars, but again, to people who don't read comics, "taking the material seriously" is a mortal sin. Between that and the fact that it's a prohibitively expensive project, it doesn't take a genius to figure out the hold-up.

If they spend $300 million on a movie only for it to under-perform because "it needs to be sillier", that would be a disaster. That IS what they are afraid of and it's why they haven't moved forward. It appears to me that they at least want to get two or three movies in a row that do alright before they take any more big, expensive risks. Which makes perfect sense to me. I'm not in a hurry for it. I promise, right now some hack in a boardroom is trying to pitch it as DC's "Guardians of the Galaxy" even though that's not what it is at all. I'm fine with it taking a long time so long as it gets done properly. GL deserves a proper adaptation, not a copycat screwball farce. We have more than enough of those already.

03-10-2019, 06:52 PM	#15
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Yeah, god forbid that someone who has actually read a comic book be put in charge of movies based on comic books. It was worth a shot, Lord knows that it had never been done before or since. With movies like "Ragnarok" passing for "great cinema", that tells me everything I personally need to know about what people in the "casual audience" want from these movies, and it's nothing good. GL should be very easy. It's only difficult because the material doesn't lend itself to "goofball comedy" in an age when people demand every super-hero movie be a goofball comedy. It doesn't fit that, but if they play it straight and treat it as the darker and more serious story that it generally is, they know they're going to get yelled at again by the nerds who want everything to be silly. And they simply don't want to risk any more negative ink, especially over what would absolutely be the most expensive movie they'd yet attempted. They already made a comedic GL movie, and it didn't work. But they're afraid to do it the right way because of people who insist that these movies have no business trying to tell serious stories in the first place. If anything, GL is like a much more serious Star Wars, but again, to people who don't read comics, "taking the material seriously" is a mortal sin. Between that and the fact that it's a prohibitively expensive project, it doesn't take a genius to figure out the hold-up. If they spend $300 million on a movie only for it to under-perform because "it needs to be sillier", that would be a disaster. That IS what they are afraid of and it's why they haven't moved forward. It appears to me that they at least want to get two or three movies in a row that do alright before they take any more big, expensive risks. Which makes perfect sense to me. I'm not in a hurry for it. I promise, right now some hack in a boardroom is trying to pitch it as DC's "Guardians of the Galaxy" even though that's not what it is at all. I'm fine with it taking a long time so long as it gets done properly. GL deserves a proper adaptation, not a copycat screwball farce. We have more than enough of those already. Last edited by Leo656; 03-10-2019 at 07:00 PM.