Joss Whedon On How To Make A Successful Comic Book Movie

I liked Watchmen, but IMO I would actually love to see a Justice League movie done by Whedon.

He's right...but I think Watchmen was pretty good.

I still think J.J. Abrams should get Justice League.

Watchmen was great. Can you imagine if Matthew Goode got superman?

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J.J. Abrams would screw a JL movie up,like he does everything!

ol Joss 'Fivehead' Whedon needs to give it a rest, he's made a great CBM in The Avengers but now thinks he's God's gift.

Watchmen was a great film and he really should be thanking the other directors of the individual Avengers movies for helping setup his film.

@RealGothanite people see Nolan the same way

I loved Watchmen, but I had read the graphic novel. I think to *most* audiences, it's a difficult sell even while they're watching if they don't know the source.
IDK about Joss on JL. He's perfect for The Avengers (would have been great for Runaways too). Wonder Woman is probably the only DC property I would be dying to see what he did with.
Abrams would be cool for JL for sure.
Or Brad Bird.

"And DC has a harder time of it than Marvel because their characters are from a bygone era where characters were bigger than we were. Marvel really cracked the code in terms of them being just like us. I think you need to use that as your base."

No.

Just no.

The Avengers are "just like us" sure, but the JLA are gods amongst us. You try to "humanise" them and you'll be left with another Avengers.

WB should not call Whedon.

WB should call Peter Jackson.

loved Watchmen too.

Whedon is probably among the best there is in terms of comic knowledge. Nah, JJ Abrams or Peter Jackson don't know comic stuff that much but they know film making though.

You want authentic comic films you get Whedon.

I liked Watchmen, but I get what he means, if you're going to do a comic frame by frame, then what do you add besides motion? However I loved Sin City which was pretty literally frame-by-frame.

Watchmen worked for me, but I havn't read the comics, so that might be why.

League of blah blah was so bad, I saw echoes of it in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I really do not believe they had a script so much as a vague outline when they filmed those two.

@PR0T0TYP3 thats fine I don't think Nolan is the greatest director alive.

I respect that he's done a few good movies just like Joss. However i'm just responding as thats the topic of this thread.

He should be happy with his film and be talking about the next Avengers movie instead of hating on a CBM that was actual decent.

Understandable - for all intensive purposes, Watchmen wasn't a movie - it was a live action frame for frame comic- it can't be faulted for being EXACTLY what it set out to be.
The first Spiderman wasn't as iconic as he says - rewatch it, and you'll see that while the first half of the movie (origin) is phenomenally well done, the second half gets very over the top, and very cheesy, very fast.

If he hates watchmen that his opinion, you guys don't need to bash on him for that. Everyone has their opinions

The man knows his shit.

WATCHMEN I LIKED, SNYDER ALWAYS GOES AS CLOSE TO THE SOURCE LOOK AS POSSIBLE.

I loved Watchmen, especially the director's cut where they have even more footage, "frame by frame".

I've been a fan of some of the stuff Whedon has worked on - Firefly, Astonishing X-Men, Buffy for a time, but he's getting to be pretty damn arrogant.

The Avengers, I imagine, is successful because they built up to it. As RealGothamite said, he should be thanking or at least acknowledging those who made those films and allowed him the chance to make his Avengers film.

Marvel has been successful thus far because they were smart in how they built up towards the Avengers, too. If they had started with Captain America: the First Avenger, it wouldn't have worked. Not a lot of people wanted to see a superhero jumping around throwing a shield wearing the American flag to begin with, but Iron Man created the demand for this outing. Thankfully Joe Johnston made a really good movie, though it was far from a masterpiece, and it wasn't just another mail-in base-model superhero movie. The same goes for Thor. Even if the characters really didn't cross over, Thor wasn't a particularly sought out character for the casual reader, and even a lot of fans were preparing for the worst simply because Thor doesn't seem like movie material.

They owe so much to Robert Downey Jr and Jon Favreau.

I still haven't seen watchmen. I've heard its a good movie. I was going to watch it the other day but something prevented me. I'll try watching it this week though.

@Azazel1

You mad bro

Why are people getting upset about this? I love both comics, though I prefer some certain DC characters and certain Marvel story arcs over the other, I just wanna see good comicbookmovies being made. And I know most of these DC fanatics are going to watch Avengers, because they want to and they know we need more cbms! And the Marvelites would sure as hell watch a JLA, Trinity or World Finest because that would be awesome and help to gather more cbms!

Now... PETER JACKSON FOR JLA? HOLY SHIT THAT WOULD DESTROY MY SENSE OF REALITY BECAUSE OF HOW AWESOME THAT WOULD BE!

Looking forward to Avengers! ASSEMBLE!

WORD!!!!!

Peter Jackson may be the best choice to direct a Justice League movie but only if he know the origins to the characters, you can never compare Marvel with DC, it's like Whedon said it's enormously difficult to take very disparate characters and make them work. And DC has a harder time of it than Marvel because their characters are from a bygone era where characters were bigger than we were.

Maybe he should have said "didn't work as well", instead of just "didn't work". I liked Watchmen, but there was a lot that was lost in the adapting process, but that's part of it being "unfilmable" according to Alan Moore. The acting was somewhat stale and the dialogue was forced most of the time.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen really wasn't as bad as most people say, as a movie, but he was right in saying they threw too much of the source material out of the window.

All I think he's saying is that its hard to walk that fine line between trying to stick to the source material while still making something new and fresh and appropriate for the big screen.

And its true that there were all these other films and filmmakers that led up to his movie, but those were all totally out of his control, so he did have a pretty big challenge in bringing all the collective visions of Favreau, Letterier, Branagh and Johnston together.

I think if JLA is made into a movie, they should settle on a tone that works for all the characters, and just go for it, not making solo movies. Unlike some of marvel's lesser known characters, like Nick Fury and even Thor to an extent, people know Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, and Flash like the back of their hand. You can add in characters like Green Arrow, Martian Manhunter and the like in the sequel.