With Captain America: The Winter Soldier set to be yet another hit for Marvel, Warner Bros. still haven’t fully take advantage of their DC Comics characters. While the studio behind the .5 billion grossing Avengers Assemble continue to release two movies a year, Fox and Sony (who own the films rights to the X-Men and Spider-Man) have also been helping to keep Marvel characters in the spotlight with upcoming sequels X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Warner Bros. on the other hand have only 2016’s untitled Batman/Superman movie in development, and despite the fact that Wonder Woman is set to make her big screen debut in that movie, they’re still way behind Marvel as of right now.
In an interview with The New York Times, Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara is praised for having accelerated their plans for the many comic book characters they hold the rights to, and based on what is said in the article, we could be seeing them at least attempt to catch up with Marvel very soon:
“Two new television shows are coming to the CW and Fox, including one based on the Flash and another on a young Batman, and a film series will be announced in the near future, Mr. Tsujihara said. It is expected to include a “Justice League” movie.”
As the site frustratingly don’t directly quote the CEO, it’s hard to tell whether that statement refers to a new series of Batman films being announced or a slate of DC comic book movies in general. Either way, the fact that a Justice League movie is still on the cards is very good news indeed, and lends some weight to the rumours and speculation that Batman/Superman will somehow lead into that team-up with a “To Be Continued…” style ending.
In other franchise news, a particularly interesting titbit in the report is in regards to the planned Harry Potter spin-off from J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The 2001 book is reportedly going to be adapted into “three megamovies”, and as we already know, they will focus on Newt Scamander, taking place in New York about seven decades before the arrival of Harry (making it neither a prequel or sequel).
