I don't have any delusions about Wonder Woman being a success based solely on who they cast in the role. Hint: it is analogous to casting Tom Hardy as Bane or Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. (which were awful decisions)
Similarly, half the damn Justice League is showing up in the Batman vs Superman movie, the title of which is also interesting because it's a Superman movie, yet he can't even get top billing.
Sandman, on the other hand, is very intriguing.
Why no faith in Gal Gadot?
Admittedly im biased pretty hardcore since she is easily my favorite FF character lol.
But i dont see it as that awful of a casting pick to be totally honest.
She's not exactly short so with a few camera tricks it can be made to make her just as tall as supes/batman , she has a military background and due to her size she can only get bigger
Not to mention depending on artist she isnt at all that far off from being relatively the same size as Wonder Woman.
Her acting chops aren't that awful either, and in any case it could be argued that the FF franchise probably didnt have the best script treatment/directors to really bring out her acting anyway.
Im definitely cautiously optimistic but I've never seen her casting as WW as a death nail that so many people see it as. Lets give her a chance
I mean back in the day when we were younger and given their acting careers up to that point would we have had much faith in Clooney as Bruce Wayne (an insanely good BW
) or Keeton ect? These two were insanely good to portray BW but given there acting chops at that time I could totally see comic fans at the time being incredibly pessimistic.
I think the biggest problems with the upcoming DC films are two fold and they dont have much at all to do with casting choices.
1) They let Green Lantern happen. This movie was originally intended to be the beginning point of there cinematic universe and was basically the most important DC movie they could make at the time.
Did no one fucking read it? lol. Such an insanely important movie and they let the GL movie we saw get released? =/ That's scary. It means theres no one at WB to tell them when to stop. A lot like Lucas and Star Wars sequels.
The reason the original trilogy was legendary is because Lucas was not paying out of pocket and there were passionate people around him to be a bottleneck for his ideas and to only let the great ones out.
The second time around he paid out of pocket and anything went
That said for all its faults I think Ryan Reynolds actually wasnt an awful Hal Jordan. I was expecting much much worse out of him to be honest and he pleasantly surprised me. That and Oa was rendered absolutely beautifully..
Who ever they casted as Sinestro was ridiculously perfect as well lol.
2) They have to much faith in David S. Goyer because he was involved in the Dark Knight. Even the man said his work was very limited in the movie and the Nolans finished up what ever he started.
This mans dialogue work is awful. All of the bad dialogue sequences in MoS are classic DSG problems that go all the way back to Blade.
He's a great idea man but his writing style is incredibly flawed and makes for a very weak script. Hopefully Ben Affleck can fix what ever treatments DSG hands in.
2.5) They not only believe a Sandman film is possible (spoiler, its not) they believe DSG has the chops to write it. So unfortunately they gave probably the hardest project in their entire license library to possibly the weakest writer in the comic-movie field
through May 2018.
