Episode 185: Man of Steel Monday – Joss Whedon Switches Teams, New Justice League Trailer, and DC Starts Stacking the Deck! (April 3, 2017)
Welcome back Cast Members, to our Man of Steel Monday episode here at CLOUD CITY CAST!
This isn’t an April Fool’s joke, although that would be an amazing idea for the future, but we lost a bet to Animation Station Podcast back during the Academy Awards season saying that Moana would beat out Zootopia for Best Animated Film. Obviously, we did not win and so now we find ourselves in the delightfully obscure position as we will be dedicating our 3 shows this week to the diametric opposite to our regularly scheduled programming. First up this week we’ll be talking about everything going on in the DC Universe. Kicking it off with Joss Whedon switching sides to direct a Batgirl solo movie for the DCEU, which will feature the New 52 version of Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, having donned the cape and cowl again after recovering from her spinal injury seen in The Killing Joke. Wonder Woman may not have much of a future as screenwriter Geoff Johns said during a recent panel at WonderCon that he “can’t confirm” that a sequel is in the works. Speaking of WonderCon, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and screenwriter Geoff Johns both confirmed that the three things missing from the DCEU are exactly what makes CW’s The Flash so endearing: heart, humor, and heroics. The new Justice League trailer has dropped and although the previously mentioned heart, humor and heroics may be present, one thing that is still apparently constantly missing is the sun. The Flash film has now run through two directors and seems to be in dire need of someone to kick the film into high gear. With Warner Brothers pushing back Aquaman from early October to late December of 2018, could this be the film they want to launch in production this year, and if so, who will direct? Also in the works are Gotham City Sirens (David Ayer to direct), Suicide Squad 2 (with possibly Mel Gibson slated to direct), Dark Universe (originally slated to be directed by Guillermo Del Toro, who has since left to be replaced by Doug Liman), Green Lantern Corps (not slated for release until 2020), and a slew of solo films from Deadshot, Black Adam, Lobo, and Nightwing. Aaron Sorkin is best known for his rapid fire dialogue and incredibly intense character arcs on such shows as The West Wing and movies like The Social Network and Steve Jobs. Reportedly he’s now turning his head to superhero films as he’s had meeting with both DC and Marvel.
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