Warner Bros Discovery |OT| DC Reboot

[the-pi-guy]

It's not over yet... HBO Max has announced an additional list of titles leaving the service *this week* (1/4):

12 Dates of Christmas
About Last Night
Aquaman: King of Atlantis
Close Enough
Detention Adventure
Dodo
Ellen’s Next Great Designer
Elliott From Earth

(cont'd)

— Alex Zalben (@azalben) August 17, 2022

New titles leaving HBO Max this week (3/4):

OK K.O.! - Let's Be Heroes
The Ollie & Moon Show
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness
Select Sesame Street Specials
Make It Big, Make It Small
Share
Squish
Summer Camp Island

(cont'd)

— Alex Zalben (@azalben) August 17, 2022

From a cursory search, some of these shows, like say INFINITY TRAIN, seem to be available on demand. But other shows like GENERA+ION aren't available anywhere else (at the moment). Which makes this... Very upsetting?

— Alex Zalben (@azalben) August 17, 2022

[the-pi-guy]

Source

In a company-wide memo, chairman Channing Dungey told staff that the company plans to fully consolidate its tv animation divisions, merging Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) and Cartoon Network Studios (CNS). Going forward, Sam Register will continue as head of WBA and CNS, as well as Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, the latter of which will continue to operate independently from the other two.

According to the memo, all three labels will continue to exist, but perhaps more in name than in action. Both development and production at WBA and CNS will now be merged, extending on the cross-studio teams that were already in place for programming, casting, legal, and business affairs, and artist relations. This means that Cartoon Network Studios no longer has any independent say on either creative or operational matters, something that has never happened before in its existence.

Under boss David Zaslav, Warner Bros. Discovery has expressed a desire to focus more heavily on IP across all its businesses, so now that CNS has to share development and production resources with WBA, it's difficult to imagine a future in which the studio's original animation output can match what it has been in the past.

Maybe not as bad as it was spoken about:

I work there. You can stand by whatever you’d like, but you sensationalizing it and guiding people to extrapolate that CNS is basically dead is really shitty, especially for those of us who still have a job there. Do better.

— David DePasquale ???? Lightbox Expo 513 (@wolfinsheeps) October 12, 2022

[the-pi-guy]

Based on Era, good news for once.

The appointments will be effective on November 1 https://t.co/hL5H78G2Un

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 25, 2022

[nnodley]

yeah DC movies should be under good direction with James Gunn

[the-pi-guy]

I'm going to call this the official WBD thread, at least while they're making so many changes.

This is a rumor:

The only returning members of the old DCEU are rumored to be Jason Momoa (as a new character), Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Daniela Melchior and Viola Davis

(@MyTimeToShineH) pic.twitter.com/2PIun5mLRO

— Geek Vibes Nation (@GeekVibesNation) December 19, 2022

[nnodley]

henry cavill should be in that list, imo.  Not sure why they couldn't just reboot his superman

[Legend]

So reboot after aquaman 3?

And why Viola Davis? She's great in other roles but not suicide squad.

henry cavill should be in that list, imo.  Not sure why they couldn't just reboot his superman

Yeah I bet superman and wonderwoman have similar struggles to batman post Bale.

[the-pi-guy]

henry cavill should be in that list, imo.  Not sure why they couldn't just reboot his superman

They want someone younger, but yeah I feel like he's a pretty solid superman.

But we just had a great meeting with Henry and we’re big fans and we talked about a number of exciting possibilities to work together in the future.

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) December 15, 2022

So reboot after aquaman 3?

And why Viola Davis? She's great in other roles but not suicide squad.

A lot of DC fans love her.

Not exactly sure why.

r/DCComics: Can we all agree that Viola kills it as Amanda Waller?
APPRECIATION: I think Viola Davis as Amanda Waller is the best casting to come out of the DCEU.

Both posts with lots of upvotes, but I haven't seen The Suicide Squad and I don't remember the first very well.

[kitler53]

if you're going to reboot why not just recast everyone?  

I love Margot Robbie but even she has been playing Harley for a long time.  start over.  Anya taylor-joy maybe.  

hell, focus on some new characters even.  Aquaman is just never going to be that compelling...

I did a quick Google search for DC characters.  only looked at page 1 and amethyst and beast boy both already sound more interesting. 

[the-pi-guy]

if you're going to reboot why not just recast everyone?  

I love Margot Robbie but even she has been playing Harley for a long time.  start over.  Anya taylor-joy maybe.  

hell, focus on some new characters even.  Aquaman is just never going to be that compelling...

I did a quick Google search for DC characters.  only looked at page 1 and amethyst and beast boy both already sound more interesting.

Not sure how much you've been following the DC stuff.
James Gunn took over the DC stuff. He seems to be salvaging his own stuff (like Suicide Squad) and rebooting most of the other things.

It sounded like they also wanted to include The Batman as that's been pretty well loved.

[kitler53]

Not sure how much you've been following the DC stuff.
James Gunn took over the DC stuff. He seems to be salvaging his own stuff (like Suicide Squad) and rebooting most of the other things.

It sounded like they also wanted to include The Batman as that's been pretty well loved.

not following it much.  ...and what I've read doesn't always land with me since I've skipped everything.  ..even moreso than marvel.

my 2 favorites are spiderman and batman so I want DC to do well but most of their stuff just looks Soo bad.

the batman trilogy with bale are some of my favorite movies ever but Affleck and Patterson were both bad.   maybe Patterson himself wasn't terrible but the movie was.

I like gal Godot as wonder women but 1984 was terrible.

Margot was fantastic as Harley but suicide squad was meh.

superman is just a terrible superhero and will be redeemable. 

anything else I've skipped.  the trailers just looked bad and characters like Aquaman and flash just aren't compelling to me.

[the-pi-guy]

I'm going to call this the official WBD thread, at least while they're making so many changes.

This is a rumor:

The only returning members of the old DCEU are rumored to be Jason Momoa (as a new character), Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Daniela Melchior and Viola Davis

(@MyTimeToShineH) pic.twitter.com/2PIun5mLRO

— Geek Vibes Nation (@GeekVibesNation) December 19, 2022

Rumor debunked.

I keep seeing posts with this untrue theory. We're not recasting everyone except The Suicide Squad.

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) December 19, 2022

[the-pi-guy]

People on Era thought it was plausible.
Oh well.  

I'm more of a DC fan than a Marvel fan.
I would look forward to better Superman, Flash, Wonder woman movies, among others.  

[Legend]

Rumor debunked.

I keep seeing posts with this untrue theory. We're not recasting everyone except The Suicide Squad.

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) December 19, 2022

Unless superman never joins the rest, how could they not recast?

[kitler53]

personally I wish superhero movies would go to the "James bond" format. 

recast whenever but it's not really a "reboot" of the franchise.  enough already with the retelling of origin stories.  just make a stand alone movie with a plot that's cool.  don't worry about continuity.  fudge off already with cross overs.