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Green Lantern, Wonder Woman sequels squashed

posted 14 years ago by Otaku-sempai
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ThinkMcflyThink.com has posted an interview with Bruce Timm about the upcoming animated movie Batman: Under the Red Hood and the future of Warner Premiere's DC Universe PG-13 Animated Original Movies. One of the questions was, "Are there plans to do any more sequels for the recently released DC animated films?"

We had originally planned to do sequels for Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, but Wonder Woman’s sales started out extremely slow and then over time were eventually able to catch up to probably Justice League [The New] Frontier. The Exec’s decided because it wasn’t able to sell quickly right away, where as Justice League was, that there wouldn’t be any more female super hero films right now. We were developing and hoping to get started on a batgirl film based on Year One, but because of Wonder Woman’s slow sales start, that won’t be happening now.

With Green Lantern, it didn’t perform nearly as well as what they had hoped it would. In the long run it eventually made its money back, but the sales weren’t there right away during its release. Hopefully with the release of the Live Action film next year, that will open up the doors for more Green Lantern relate material.

To read the entire interview, click here: http://thinkmcflythink.squarespace.com/movie-news/2010/4/25/exclusive- interview-with-bruce-timm.html.

EDIT: The cancelled movie is apparently NOT Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, the "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps"-style film that is expected to be released in June 2011.

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[–] DarthBill 14 years ago

Yeah I heard about that. Sad, really. Now I hear we may have to go through back to back Batman DTVs, since there's word that Batman: Year One is the next big DTV after Red Hood. Now I like Batman, but does he really need these DTVs?

[–] Otaku-sempai 14 years ago

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse will follow immediately after [i]Batman: Under the Red Hood. This will be a sequel to Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

Batman: Year One will probably be next after that (for early 2011). A Green Lantern animated movie (probably exploring the origins of the Green Lantern Corps) is expected for June 2011.

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[–] chinawhite252 14 years ago

that sucks man

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[–] David_Blue 14 years ago

Bad news and more bad news, but thanks for passing it on, Otaku-sempai.

[–] mr-quick-1 14 years ago

Sorry but they don't release these outside of North America so what did they expect?

I had to download mine from the net.

I loved First Flight though.

[–] srb-3 14 years ago

Too bad. Despite their flaws both were very, very, good.

[–] Eric-Scissorhands 13 years ago

That sucks. Wonder Woman was really good too.

[–] Vaggeli 13 years ago

That sucks, these films have been consistently well made.

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[–] PreachCaleb 11 years ago

It's a big shame. I like Superman and Batman as much as the next guy, but I'd like to see more movies starring other heroes.

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[–] DamianGein 10 years ago

Shame, both movies were excellent IMO

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[–] wallacesawyer 9 years ago

Even though it probably wouldn't have happened even if GREEN LANTERN animated films were still being made, but I personally would like to see one about when Hal Jordan turned evil.

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[–] ZombieGiles 8 years ago

I want a sequel to both of these movies so bad it hurts. I prefer animated over live action.