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Warner Takes a Firmer Stance with DC Entertainment/Disney promises to back off Marvel

11 September 2009No CommentPosted by Chris B.

In an interesting juxtaposition of news events, DC Comics and Warner are changing their stance at the same time Disney is promising to stay away from Marvel.

DC is rebooting itself as DC Entertainment instead of DC Comics now. Warner's got a new exec taking over making films based on DC's characters, and they're determined to take a hard look at making movies out of "lesser known characters and untapped resources." To me this just sounds like Warner realizing that if Disney can buy Marvel, especially after the critical success of Iron Man, then maybe comic books actually have potential as movies! Shocking, I know. From a corporate perspective you'd think they would have made sure that all DC properties got into the hands of good writers like Jonah Nolan and David Goyer after Dark Knight broke every record in the book. You can read the full information here.

Meanwhile, Disney backpedaled, stating that there would be no, and I quote here, "Disneyfication" of Marvel. This is good news for people like me who feared the worst when this was announced. Furthermore, they won't be doing anything about the fact that Fox has the rights to http://scifiwire.com/2009/09/d23-5-good-signs-about-th.php (Grrr), so basically Marvel will remain essentially what we love, though Pixar may take a stab at Ant-Man, they're being vague about that. Full details are here at SciFiWire.

All in all, I'm not sure what this will mean - the real core of what makes superhero movies good or bad is choosing good, competent writers who know what they're doing. Choosing, say, Brancato and Ferris for Catwoman - bad choice. Choosing, say, Jonah Nolan for Dark Knight, is good! Yet Producers continually let Brancato and Ferris write movies, and the only reason I can think of why is that they're addled in some way.