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July 20, 2009

The Hollywood Reporter has published an interesting article on the film projects that DC Comics has in the works. They mention previously-reported titles The Losers, Jonah Jex, The Green Lantern, and Red, but there's more on others we haven't heard much about lately. Here's a few excerpts:

This past fall, Warners quietly hired three of DC's biggest writers -- Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison and Marv Wolfman -- to act as consultants and writers for its superhero line of movies. The move involved taking back the reins on projects being handled by such producers as Charles Roven ("The Flash") and Akiva Goldsman ("Teen Titans").

The moves have begun to pay off. Johns worked up a new treatment for a "Flash" script, being written by Dan Mazeau; Johns will act in a producer capacity on the project, which has not attached a director.

The projects Morrison and Wolfman are working on are in the early stages at Warners, whose execs declined to comment.

The studio is taking pitches on sci-fi hero Adam Strange and the underwater-breathing hero "Aquaman," to be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way shingle.

Also in the pipeline: "Bizarro Superman" being written by "Galaxy Quest" scribes David Howard and Robert Gordon; a sequel to "Constantine," with Goldsman and Erwin Stoff producing; two concurrent Green Arrow projects, an origin story and a prison-set one titled "Super Max"; and "Shazam," which was set up at New Line but has moved to Warners, with Pete Segal attached to direct.

They also mention a Superman Returns sequel, a third Batman film from Christopher Nolan and the Justice League movie, but there's no real news there. You can read the full article here.

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COMMENTS (34)

Posted by:

kdawg224

July 20, 2009

first!i wnat to see a new bat and super man movie but i'm excited about green arrow and the lantern!the flash is cool but f! aquaman he's terrible.

Posted by:

jacoby

July 20, 2009

I would love to see a new superman,batman, and constantine as long as keanu reeves is attached for constantine. I would also love to see the flash on the big screen although i thought ryan reynolds was perfect for that role and i also interested to see how aquaman would turn out.
So all in all mostly all of these sound like they could be great to me.

Posted by:

Blake

July 20, 2009

I say get James Cameron to do Aquaman starring Vinny Chase..oh oops already done ;) jkjk I am gonna bet the clip we saw from Entourage will probably be better than the entire "true" film that will come out later!!!

Posted by:

Martica

July 20, 2009

I only care for Superman, Batman and Justice League. The rest can go crawl under a rock, and that includes Spider-Man (marvel).

Posted by:

trnr_brnt

July 20, 2009

A Flash movie?
It's about time!

Posted by:

bernardg

July 20, 2009

Where is Wonder Woman! I want Wonder Woman dammit!! Not some second an third strings superhero. And make it proper, like she should be tall (around 5.10 to 6 feet tall) but looking elegant and gracefully.
What taking them so long?..... sigh

Posted by:

bernardg

July 20, 2009

Having said that, I have one possible candidate that seem fit the role of Diana/WW. She is Rie Rasmussen... why? Cuz she is definitely an actress, tall, beautiful, intelligent, multilinguals, definitely unknown in the State side (unless you've watched the underrated Femme Fatale and Angel-A before), what she only need is to dye her hair raven black and workout a little.

Posted by:

Somebody Else

July 20, 2009

AKIVA GOLDSMAN???!!! He wrote the screenplays for Batman Forever and Batman and Robin...
and he's a producer for WB superhero movies now??? I thought we talked about this, Warner Bros. I thought you learned your lesson. Go to your room, studio!

Posted by:

WCB

July 20, 2009

Whatever happened to that Wonder Woman movie they said they were gonna do? The one that had Joss Whedon attatched to it at first? Or were they talking about the animated movie on dvd?

Posted by:

WCB

July 20, 2009

Though I am excited about a Flash movie and hopefully a Teen Titans movie. Maybe Dax Shepard can play Wally West.