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Joss Whedon's anti Justice League Twitter Activity leads to War

posted 6 years ago by TwistedAcrobat (1725)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxR2vqkVSzE

Not looking good.

Who knows what that joker is thinking. Whedon is a bit of an ego-maniac. Guess he doesn't want his name associated with the Justice League movie. That's disappointing. Guess WB just brought him in to manage failure instead of turn things around.

[–] TwistedAcrobat (1725) 6 years ago

As I understand it, he only did a couple of re-shoots but seems to have had a hand on some re-writing as well.

As a professional he should be exempt of any of the critiques and fan wars.

This reminds me of the Pink Floyd vs Roger Waters thing. Fortunately [though a tad too late] Roger admitted his egomania.

[–] Bubbathegut (17225) 6 years ago

We need a joker movie.

[–] PresidentAckbar (1289) 6 years ago

The Ackbars agree.

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 6 years ago

Wow, those DC fans almost getting violent (one guy wants Gal Gadot to drop kick Joss Whedon for liking that tweet).

I haven't heard one reviewer praise JL's Steppenwolf. And the producer said Joss was only on board for 15%-20% of the film. I bet Joss does agree the villain is terrible, but that may have been out of his hands.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

I've heard rumors that he reshot 50% of the film, and if that's not true it probably would have been a good idea.

It's hard to imagine a more thankless job than being asked to fix one of Snyder's messes, given limited time and budget. I hope he got something very nice in exchange for his hard and unrewarding work, some project of his getting the greenlight or something.

[–] jriddle73 (318) 6 years ago

"It's hard to imagine a more thankless job than being asked to fix one of Snyder's messes"

Just tried to come up with something more thankless; I got nothin'. Nor would I take on such a task, unless my name wouldn't appear on the finished film and my participation would be kept secret. WB would have been far better served by simply getting rid of Snyder after BvS, delaying the JL movie and absorbing the cost of doing so and hiring a real filmmaker--someone like Whedon, actually--to start over again. When BvS went over like a lead balloon, the studio was reportedly afraid to axe him, as they thought this would hurt BvS's box-office, so they assigned two different babysitters to watch over him, cancelled his planned JL sequel and still ended up having to remove him from the movie anyway when he--as was entirely predictable--fucked it up. No way to run a railroad.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

Oh, there are a million tasks more thankless in the real world, working in an old folks' home or refugee camp and suchlike. But fixing "Justice League" is as thankless a job as a top Hollywood director would ever take on, and Warners' has to consider that they owe him a favor or two.

I hope he succeeded in making the end result passable, a friend wants to drag me to it.

[–] Bubbathegut (17225) 6 years ago

I smell a thor failure rising!

[–] Frogarama (12942) 6 years ago

Uncredited participation would have been best, like how Quentin Tarantino did a rewrite of It's Pat, but did not allow his name in the credits. Steven King didn't allow his name to be associated with the adaptation of his Lawnmower Man.

[–] Bubbathegut (17225) 6 years ago

It's a me, Kal-Ellio!

[–] ChuckFindlay (392) 6 years ago

Whats terrible is the soundtrack. Elfman dragging his 1989 tim burton batman soundtrack out of mothballs and slapping it on this. That soundtrack worked well with the style of movie tim did, but here its utterly out of place. I really dont believe that whedon only had a 15-20% hand in this. It has almost no snyder about it at all. Say what you want about his movie be he has a keen eye for setting a scene and this looked like whedon marveled the fuck out of it.

Steppenwolf wasnt that bad. But he was dipped in a marvel sauce like the rest of the movie. Dont get me wrong, Im fine with marvel movies. But we already have marvel movies. So why turn dc movies into marvel?

[–] QueenFanUSA (3375) 6 years ago

True dat!

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 6 years ago

Elfman dragging his 1989 tim burton batman soundtrack out of mothballs and slapping it on this. That soundtrack worked well with the style of movie tim did, but here its utterly out of place

lol. I also wasn't a fan of the idea when Elfman announced this. It just doesn't fit the current DCEU universe. I heard a snippet of the JL score on Youtube, and the Elfman theme sounds wrong, especially coming after BvS and Wonder Woman.