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It’s been a pretty decent week within the DC Extended Universe with Wonder Woman continuing to break windows and records, Matt Reeves talks a little about The Batman and DC Films Co-Chief’s Geoff Johns and Jon Berg talked about DCEU as did their boss Warner Brothers President and Chief Creative Officer Toby Emmerich.
Wonder Woman Smashes Past $600 Million Worldwide
Its great news to hear Wonder Woman has earned $601.6 million at the worldwide box office after just three weeks of release and as Wednesday’s totals were counted it stands at $289.2 million in the US and $312.4 million in the rest of the world.
Wonder Woman will pass Man of Steel’s US overall box office of $291 million (if it hasn’t already) and will likely pass the worldwide total of $668 million this weekend.
Now it seems odds on for Patty Jenkins will become the highest grossing live-action film directed by a female director.
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By the weekend the box office, the DC superhero flick will past the $300 million mark in the States and will surpass last summer DC hit Suicide Squad, which ended its run at $325.1 million.
With the money its making and the speed, I won’t be surprised if Wonder Woman ends the box office run in the high $800/low $900 million mark.
Matt Reeves Talks The Batman
Director Matt Reeves is set to have another critical and box office hit on his hands with War for the Planet of the Apes. Once the press tour for this film is finished and had a little break the next thing we’ll see him handle is The Batman.
The filmmaker has revealed his approach when tackling the project and he’s thinking along the lines of Alfred Hitchcock.
Though he has admitted that “we’re just starting” work on the upcoming Dark Knight film starring Ben Affleck and while taking to CNET Reeves is thinking of a Hitchcockian manner.
“For me, point of view is really important. I want to make sure you are experiencing something from the perspective of the main character in the story. I’m a huge Hitchcock fan – I like the idea of being immersed in the perspective… movies for me are about empathy. The idea is to make you, the audience, feel what the character feels.”
This sounds perfect and if you’ve Reeves previous Apes film, he made us care about a CGI Ape! So it’s amazing and exciting to think what he could do with an older Batman with Affleck in the lead. This Batman film could be incredibly special.
Furthermore, the director wrote the screenplay for Apes and if he’s in a room with Johns and maybe Chris Terrio or Affleck, this could rival Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight as the best Batman/superhero film ever, it has that much potential.
Geoff Johns and Jon Berg Open Up About The DCEU
This week DC Films’ co-chiefs spoke to Variety and opened up about the success of Wonder Woman and what they learned from Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad.
“There are lessons from every film,” said Berg. “You would be silly not to analyse how a movie was received – what went right and what went wrong on the making of a movie.
“On Suicide Squad, the movie did incredibly well commercially. It didn’t work narratively. You had some great casting and some great characterizations, but where the story fell down was on narrative, on plot. We could do better. Batman v Superman was tonally dark. People didn’t respond to that” added Berg.
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What’s next for Wonder Woman and its sequel? Well, Johns revealed “Patty and I are writing the treatment right now. The goal is to make another great Wonder Woman film. I had a blast making it with Patty the first time. We’ve got a cool idea for the second one.”
Wonder Woman won’t be enhancing her role in Justice League because her role was already large.
Berg stated “Her role won’t change, but she was already playing a big role. People really responded to Gal [Gadot] in Batman v Superman. We knew we had something special.
Finally, Berg revealed how simple it was getting Joss Whedon on board and how exciting to have a director with his calibre included with moving the DCEU forward.
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“He’s a big part already. We love him. He’s a great partner, collaborator; we want him to be ensconced. We bring people by, have general meetings and talk about comics and their favourite superhero movies.
“With Joss, he saw the master board, and he saw master board, he saw a Batgirl title and he said,
‘You guys seriously want to do Batgirl?’ And we said, ‘Absolutely.’ He said, ‘That’s my jam’” he added.
Toby Emmerich Talks DC Extended Universe
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For the first time since becoming Warner Bros’ president and CCO, Emmerich spoke to Variety about the DC Extended Universe (as well as the studio as a whole, it’s interesting a definitely worth a read) and admits he’s not a comic book guy.
“I don’t speak comic. I do feel like I speak motion pictures. I speak for an audience. I look and ask, ‘How does this work for a general audience?’” revealed Emmerich.
Johns and the rest of the DC Films team don’t have an issue with Emmerich’s lack of knowledge when it comes to comic books isn’t an issue.
“He understands that when we’re talking about the characters, we’re not just talking about what their powers are,” stated Johns. “We’re talking about who they are as people.”
I don’t think Emmerich not knowing his Green Lantern and Green Arrow isn’t a problem if anything it’s a benefit because he just wants to see great movies and having people like Berg and Johns in the nerd stuff is brilliant.
Following the success of Wonder Woman, DC are still pushing forward with two more female-centric projects – Margot Robbie’s Gotham City Sirens, where she’ll reprise her role as Harley Quinn and Whedon’s Batgirl.
Emmerich confirms Johns comments Jenkins is already working on the Wonder Woman sequel. Although it won’t be taking place in World War 1, it could still be set in the past.
Teasing “It will take place somewhere between 1917 and 2017.”
Finally, following the success of Deadpool and Logan Emmerich admits he admires the violent, irreverent and very adult comic-book and we could see something like this in the DCEU.
“I would be surprised if we didn’t at some point make an R-rated DC movie,” said Emmerich.
I think the films that could possibly get the R-rating would be Justice League Dark, Gotham City Sirens and Suicide Squad 2.
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