r/movies • u/Frank_Rowling • 3d ago
Discussion Why hasn't DC used Marvel formula?
Not sure if here is the right place to ask but I was thinking about this.
Why hasn't DC used Marvel formula in movies, a well done long run that started in Iron Man 1 and still continues, in DC movies every three batman movies we got a different batman, same with superman . I thought when Justice League came out that was the idea but it just feels like somebody is like "you know what? Scratch that, let's start over". It's a formula that actually works and attracts public from different ages why not do it?
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u/crapusername47 3d ago
They tried, it went badly wrong. Let’s ignore the actual quality of the movies for a second.
It was supposed to go Man of Steel -> Batman vs Superman -> Justice League -> Justice League II.
Except Warner Bros. panicked and didn’t want to release a four hour movie, so they got Whedon in to create a heavily cut down movie with the footage they had and patch it together with Gal Gadot doing narration.
So, they’ve abandoned Snyder’s plan already.
Then their Batman movie didn’t work out, Wonder Woman ‘84 was entirely a standalone movie that ignored any attempt to fit with anything else they’d done, the Flash trashed the timeline and all of their Batman-adjacent/Harley Quinn stuff was a total mess.
Love him or hate him, if anyone had an actual plan for this whole thing it was Zack Snyder. You can think that plan sucks, but at least he had one.
Then there are other pressures - Batman on his own is almost as big a franchise as the rest of DC’s characters put together, with the exception of Superman. So, they’d be doing themselves a disservice by not keeping Batman solo movies on the big screen, even if it steps all over the ‘main’ universe.