Not to mention they still don't have a way of making it happen. DC have the problem of all but three or four of their heroes being largely forgotten in pop culture, and building a Justice League without those guys getting their own films is a guaranteed disaster. Man of Steel has not encouraged audiences to look forward to those films and it's mainly because studios just do not ****ing learn that we are all sick of origin stories for popular heroes by now. Nobody wants to sit around for half the film watching the story of where Superman came from for the fiftieth time, nor do they want to put up with yet another scene of Bruce Wayne's parents being shot and the boy's journey towards the mask. We enjoy variety and originality, even if research predicts that Superman will sell more tickets than Nightwing.
Wanna know why The Avengers did so well? Good but obscure heroes being brought into the public eye with a breath of new fresh air. Contrast that with Warner Bros making the billionth Superman film this decade and sticking yet another reboot of Batman in there for good measure. They don't even have the balls to take on a Wonder Woman film because their flowcharts project that a female superhero film is a slightly bigger risk. Not to mention that they're eventually going to have to try and salvage something out of the mess that was that Green Lantern film (which is possible - just look at the Hulk). I just wish they'd stop beating the dead horse of their two most iconic characters and get around to actually trying to fulfill the ambition.
In its current state this Justice League project has the very real potential to kill off the A list superhero trend for good, which is worrying. I'd really rather the trend burned out of its own accord after saying all it had to say, which is my way of saying I want a Deadpool film and another Daredevil that doesn't suck before we hopefully move on to something that isn't linked to Michael Bay at all.
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