WB/DC Getting Their Act Together?!?
Tue, December 29, 2009 
Dan Lin made a bold move. He gave up his seat as a high ranking executive at Warner Brothers (Many believed had he stuck around he’d be running the place eventually) to start his own production company. So what was the first film to be made under his direct supervision as a producer? Justice League: Mortal. It didn’t work out. Since then, he’d had his name attached to various WB properties as a producer including Terminator: Salvation and The Box with others currently in development.
With this past week’s Sherlock Holmes proving to be a success (with a sequel already in the planning stages and most likely soon to be put on the fast track), Lin can breathe a sigh of relief. Collider spoke to him recently while making the press rounds for the tentpole. When the subject of the ill-fated turkey in the making Justice League was brought up, he confirmed the obvious. It’s not happening anytime soon:
"It seems like they’re (Warner Bros.) building to Justice League instead of going with the team movie first and doing individual movies after that."
Furthermore, he confirmed that there should be an announcement on WB’s front towards their full-on strategy with DC-related projects. Of course, we’ve all heard this before. Soon-to-be big-cheese Jeff Robinov infamously stated the studio would unveil their plans for films ranging from a third Batman film to a Superman “reintroduction” film back in August 2008. That never happened.
The difference between then and now is the hiring of one Diane Nelson (with Robinov ultimately calling the shots) to get their act together. As for Lin when a Justice League movie is eventually made, I’d say he’ll have no more direct involvement in the finished product than Jon Peters on the Superman franchise. None.
Reader Comments (5)
If they're smart, they won't announce anything official beyond Bat3, some animated stuff, and Green Lantern casting. They keep raising people's hopes and then dashing them because stuff changes(rightfully so). The WB is a huge studio with multiple demands and they can't focus like Marvel, for better or worse.
I just hope they follow through with whatever they announce.
Most interesting thing to me in the entire article was Suicide Squad on the front burner :)
To me that is just another example of them using minor league characters and forgetting about what made DC a company in the first place.
It just boggles my mind that they cannot get a Flash, WW, or any other major character movie off the ground. I'm sorry but WB are idiots when it comes to their DC properties. They got lucky with Nolan and have totally missed a potentially great sequel to Superman Returns with Singer