Thoughts on Zack Snyder's SnyderVerse Event?

More and more I do think and believe porn is the latter, lol.

Agreed

Some want it to go to Netflix

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Thanks @chintzybeatnik

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I hope they make the art that Jim Lee is doing for it available as a print. Also, I’d love to see a conclusion to the story in graphic novel form. That would seem like a win for everyone.


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I’m not going to reply to specific people but I do want to offer some comments about how contracts in the entertainment industry works so that some people can appreciate how intensely unlikely some stuff that is floating out there in the interwebz and elsewhere:

  • Disney - first of all, irrespective of administration or party in power, it is as likely as one of use winning the next multi-millions multi-state mega lotteries that either DC Entertainment, or The Company Formerly Known as Warner Media will be sold, merge with, lent or even licensed to Disney or Marble Studios. And Disney, at least at the moment and in the foreseeable near to mid-far future, has far too much debt to even seriously consider this, even if they were interested.

  • Netflix - The studios of the past and the current present have always cooperated with each other, lent contract players, whether we’re talking talent behind the screen or in front of it, and shared things like distribution or production, particularly costs, and profit participation. However, the DISCO suit people are not looking to license IP for ownership to Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, Hulu or anyone else who also exploits IP like they do or Warners does.

Warner Brothers (and any other IP holder today) does not want to be in the shoes WB and DC found themselves with the Adam Ward TV show, where Fox, to this day, retains rights, or as with the Salkands and the Donnerverse and other films, and the Superboy TV show, where Viacom, to this day, still retain rights.

Netflix is only licensing, for example, the rights to something like Lucifer, or the early DCW shows (pre-HBO Max) that still play on that network, and while the DISCO suits might be willing to license that future Batman show that Amazon will be showing, that’s purely an income generating play on the part of DISCO, because (a) at the moment, they desperately need this kind of income and (b) it’s not going to conflict with their new (Gunn/Safran) connected universe, in the same way that Lucifer or Constantine on other broadcast networks - or Pennyworth on Starz, never interfered with the DCW or the DCEU films.

Something like The Sandman, and presumably Dead Boy Detectives, can work on Netflix. Anything that spins out of even the ZSJL or those films he directed that were shown theatrical (and which will remain on HBO Max, other than being occasionally licensed for a few months on another streamer or a cable/broadcast channel) for a fee, on the other hand, does directly conflict with anything live action or even animated, since Gunn and Safran are including that, in their connected universe.

To clarify, in case it’s not clear, and to TL;DR this: Netflix does not OWN nor did it BUY rights to The Sandman in any perpetual or permanent fashion, nor is Amazon going to OWN nor did it BUY rights to an animated Batman in any perpetual or permanent fashion.

AND WB and DC are willing to license, for the income, for a defined contract term, some of these characters and material and probably other DC characters and material, but only to the extent it’s not going to conflict with other plans of others. Thus, we can see a Bionic Woman/Wonder Woman comic at Dynamite, or a Batman/TMNT comic at IDW, but we won’t see a Wonder Woman comic at Dynamite nor will we see Detective Comics under the IDW imprint.

People really need to let these delusions goes.

There’s nothing wrong with putting together an event for charity, or even for fan made stuff to exists, but anything more than that is more than improbable, even if Gunn divorced his wife to marry ZS (who would, of course, since he wouldn’t break the law, would have to divorce his producer).

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Pft, you and your logic and education. Can’t people just continue to turn their brains off and act like tomorrow Disney will let WB make a Batman versus Darth Vader movie? Because…yay being delusional is fun, lol.

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It’s not education (I’m a simple Fine Arts major); I just happened to end up working on the business side of show biz and since I still live in SoCAL, I still have friends in the business. Sadly, no one at DC, so I can’t even score free comics or anything fun. Gunn just gave an interview a few days ago to one of the trades saying - don’t expect it anytime soon, but now that he’s in charge, their might be a Marble/DC cross-over.

Frankly, I’m not holding my breath that it will happen before the heat death of the planet or my demise, but a nice animated series of those treasury edition team ups (Spidey versus Clark) would suit me just fine. I doubt Buena Vista or Kennedy will want to loan out Luke’s Dad for the lolz but since The Lego Movie(s)/Lego Batman got away with all those mash-ups, in a few years, when Universal no longer has the exclusive rights to the bricks, maybe you can @ Chris McKay on that date, and talk him into pitching a SW/Lego Batgod cross-over?

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It will only if both groups’ movie universes are on their dearh beds.

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I didn’t follow the event (if that was at all possible without physically attending), but I did see this:

Again, speaking as someone who is a fan of the movies, but has also acknowledged their flaws, this is exactly the type of thing that Snyder needed to do less of. Make the Greek gods Kryptonian? And they’re boasting about it like it would have been well received? It’s good to have creative vision, but this would have been too indulgent for what was supposed to be a mainstream movie universe.

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Yes, it is just making this world smaller and smaller by making everything revolve around Kryptonians.

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One thing about the WW movies i didn’t like was having most of the Greek Gods be deceased

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I don’t recall this being a thing. Did they say the gods were dead?

I thought they did in the first one

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Will pay closer attention next time I rewatch :slightly_smiling_face:.

Something to keep in mind was that this was his initial idea that he played around with and decided against. I feel like a lot of people are freaking out thinking that it was going to be a thing in theoretical other movies when it clearly wasn’t.

Also, I haven’t watched it yet, but the Q&A that Snyder did along with other people, including Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher and more was posted on YouTube:

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Not freaking out. Was just stating my opinion based on what I read in the article. The article didn’t mention that it was something they decided against, just that it could have potentially been a thing

Thanks for the video link. Will check it out when I have some time.

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WB is evil for not giving that brilliant man hundreds of millions of dollars to complete his artistic vision.

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I smell sarcasm. Right? I’m pretty sure you’re not a fan.

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I hope so

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Ok, I love Zack, but I’ll admit this is a little bizarre.

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