I thought that was a pilot for The WB from the people who made Smallville. When The WB and UPN merged to form The CW, they no longer had as much airtime to fill, so Aquaman wasn't picked up to series.
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I thought that was a pilot for The WB from the people who made Smallville. When The WB and UPN merged to form The CW, they no longer had as much airtime to fill, so Aquaman wasn't picked up to series.
Yeah it was a failed pilot and when it wasn't picked up, the creators recast Hartley in Smallville as Green Arrow.
Taken from Reddit and confirmed by the director on twitter.. "Enchantress was to be a cosmic herald for Steppenwolf's imminent invasion following the death of Superman. The Suicide Squad, by delaying Steppenwolf's arrival, would have saved the world (for a time) while actively building towards Snyder's Justice League event."
WB is actually the worst. This Suicide Squad film would have been amazing, and connecting it to Justice League would have worked so well. Here is gorgeous concept art that was never used...
Wow. Amazing that they abandoned the original vision of Suicide Squad. That must be how they originally managed to sign all of the onscreen talent and the director.
And maybe Slipknot would have survived.
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Taken from Reddit and confirmed by the director on twitter.. "Enchantress was to be a cosmic herald for Steppenwolf's imminent invasion following the death of Superman. The Suicide Squad, by delaying Steppenwolf's arrival, would have saved the world (for a time) while actively building towards Snyder's Justice League event."
WB is actually the worst. This Suicide Squad film would have been amazing, and connecting it to Justice League would have worked so well. Here is gorgeous concept art that was never used...
Meh...This all relies on Zach Snyder being able to pull off his vision successfully.
I actually think Snyder is a great story teller, in the sense that he can come up with a great overall plot. However, his ability to build characters, create mood, and write dialogue is so miserable that it prevents him from pulling off even a basic film.
I was thinking about this earlier, and the basic plot behind Man of Steel into BvS is very solid. Superman rips up the city in his fight with Zod. Batman is horrified by the devastation, and the two characters end up in conflict, with Luthor pulling strings behind the scene.
This would have worked so well, if Superman actually came across as a nice person, who was reluctantly pulled into the city battle and went out of his way to avoid the destruction. The movie also required Luthor to have been a solid character who believably was pulling strings behind the scene. Instead we got moody Superman, annoying Luthor, and a movie zero positive colour pallets in BvS.
I can 100% see why DC got sucked in by Snyder but then had to pull the plug on him.
My favorite Snyder quote:
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Everyone says that about "Batman Begins." "Batman's dark." I'm like, "Okay, no, Batman's cool." He gets to go to a Tibetan monastery and be trained by ninjas. Okay? I want to do that. But he doesn't, like, get raped in prison. That could happen in my movie. If you want to talk about dark, that's how that would go.
However, I have no idea how all these reviews were confused by the movie. It was exactly as sold in the trailers, which more or less gave a way the whole movie. The tone of the movie and humour were pretty on point for the source material. The effects were good too, although the Venom/Riot fight scenes didn't look great.
Overall, my biggest gripe would be that the plot was too safe, and Brock's character wasn't enough of a jealous jerk.
I don't know why but generally I'm not a fan of shows / movies that focus on the villain as the protagonist. I'm just not really interested in watching them.
Maybe it's because Trump is on the news so frequently I want something to mix up my day.
I don't know why but generally I'm not a fan of shows / movies that focus on the villain as the protagonist. I'm just not really interested in watching them.
Maybe it's because Trump is on the news so frequently I want something to mix up my day.
Normally I'd agree but I think they did a great job with Infinity War by making Thanos the focus. With so many heroes, the movie would have been disjointed only following the various heroes.
I don't know why but generally I'm not a fan of shows / movies that focus on the villain as the protagonist. I'm just not really interested in watching them.
Maybe it's because Trump is on the news so frequently I want something to mix up my day.
I assume you're referring to Venom?
He wasnt really a 'Villain' per se in the Classical sense, what made Venom really cool was that he was an 'Anti-Hero.'
He was the hero of his own story and in his own way. He didnt follow the classical hero archetype, he would fight 'bad guys' but in his own way and without the normal restrictions that heroes typically limit themselves with.
And he hated Spiderman, who is a character that does follow and abide by normal hero stereotypes and tropes which made Venom even cooler because heres this character that considers himself a hero but is just over the top violent and who absolutely hates this wholesome goody-two-shoes stereotypical hero that most fans love.
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He wasnt really a 'Villain' per se in the Classical sense, what made Venom really cool was that he was an 'Anti-Hero.'
He was the hero of his own story and in his own way. He didnt follow the classical hero archetype, he would fight 'bad guys' but in his own way and without the normal restrictions that heroes typically limit themselves with.
And he hated Spiderman, who is a character that does follow and abide by normal hero stereotypes and tropes which made Venom even cooler because heres this character that considers himself a hero but is just over the top violent and who absolutely hates this wholesome goody-two-shoes stereotypical hero that most fans love.
In the movie, Eddie Brock is definitely not a villain. Everything he does is righteous. That was actually a gripe I had with the movie. They took away from Brock's character by not giving him the jealous conniving background.
You're right about Venom becoming an anti-hero, but he definitely doesn't start that way, which part of what made the character interesting.
The movie was really held by back by the fact it was a movie. Most audiences probably don't want to see an actual villain as the focus for 2 hours, at least not without some kind of heavy protagonist counterbalance. Although they could have done a bit of a Momento angle, where the villain acts like a villain, but at the same time is self-righteous and taking a degree of willful-blindness to the whole ordeal.
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