Warner Bros. Teases 'Batman V Superman,' 'Suicide Squad,' Confirms 'Green lamp Corps' At SDCC

The DC Comics portion of the Warner Bros./Time Warner TWX +1.77% Inc. panel simply finished down in city, and one will presume that they're feeling pretty smart immediately. The sizzle reels for tender v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad compete like gangbusters with the group, with buzzy footage for the latter focused around Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Gal Gadot creating a fast show of it as woman within the Batman-centric former. And after all, the varied solid members of the 2 major films showed up to require queries and take footage, that the crowd have to be compelled to see the likes of can Smith, Margot Robbie, mount Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, etc.

That’s attention-grabbing is that the large confirmation, of associate degree ensemble inexperienced lamp Corps. movie, just coagulated what we have a tendency to already knew going into the weekend. That’s not Warner’s fault, as that’s what happens once stuff gets spoiled. however what’s additionally attention-grabbing is that the panel didn’t screw around with gimmicks and pizzaz. they simply showed up associate degreed offered the products in an true large area with large sensory-destroying screens and audio mixes.


The panel was concerning associate degree hour long and began with associate degree introductory DC Comics “these square measure the films we have a tendency to square measure making” ikon with footage and conception art. They followed up with a Suicide Squad trailer and a fast chat with the solid and director David Ayer. and so it had been right onto the tender V Superman material, that consisted of the sizzle reel in question and a short question-and-answer session from those attending. They tossed off a couple of selection quotes (Gotham town and Metropolis are going to be next to every different, Amy Adams has ne'er been to Comic Con before, David Ayers describes Suicide Squad as “bad vs. evil,” etc.). and so at the moment, the panel was over.

There were no gimmicks, not surprise events, no Jared Graeco-Roman deity starting off fully character make-up and threaten to kill everybody attending or the new inexperienced Lanterns walking on stage to sing “Stand By Me” or the other such kind silliness. There was speak this year that this was the rare chance for Warner Bros. and their DC Comics slate to primarily “win Comic Con” by virtue of getting plenty of stuff to sell and by virtue of Marvel sitting the year out since they didn’t have a lot of that was finished enough to justify an enormous panel. however to Warner’s relative credit they didn’t do a lot of on the far side the quality show.

They brought out the filmmakers, showed off a sizzle reel of their 2 huge forthcoming properties, took a couple of queries and referred to as it every day. except for the proclaimed inexperienced lamp Corps. moving picture (by virtue of a brand within the introductory footage/concept art reel), there wasn’t any real “news” out of the panel, that is typically the case for the DC Comics films to this point. except for the last-second announcement that Man of Steel two would really be a tender v Superman team-up back in 2013, most of the large news has born the old style method, via press releases or throughout shareowner conferences.

That’s not a criticism nor a compliment. Marvel was during a position in 2013 to primarily run the tables and rejoice whereas they were doing it. Last night’s Star Wars panel was primarily the epitome of an ideal convention-centric promoting gambit, however I’ll discuss that later if time permits. however today’s panel either diagrammatic an absence of skill and imagination, or, if you’re optimistic, associate degree acknowledgment that it’s not the conventiongoers they have to persuade to threaten Marvel’s superhero moving picture empire.

As I wrote a second past once discussing the tender v Superman trailer that simply born on-line, they appear to possess the footage to make nice trailers over ensuing year, and that they won’t get to top-tier blockbuster grosses by just winning over the mostly-converted SDCC crowd. And Warner after all is aware of this. They’ve seen the likes of Scott Pilgrim vs the globe and Dredd kick howevert at Comic Con but fail with general audiences. thus this year, knowing that they had to project a definite confidence and a sweeping quantity of likely product, just excited what that they had to tease and otherwise let the celebrities and filmmakers get during a few words and leave everybody wanting (much) a lot of.

Maybe I’m reading an excessive amount of into this in terms of the shortage of gimmicks and the way genuinely amusive the footage I’ve seen from Dawn of Justice and also the footage I’ve detected concerning from Suicide Squad sounds, however there's a half-way tight likelihood that Warner Bros. may pull this off next year. And for me, the largest vote of confidence is that they principally let the footage represent itself.