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"Your words are too slow..."
SWOOOSSHH!!
I agree there is alot to mine there with Aquaman, Throne of Atlantis was mixed with some though I really enjoyed it.
This story is interesting...
Superman takes on KKK in a new movie
At a nudist beach that also doubles as a KKK treading ground?
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/843647-the-batman-director-matt-reeves-on-his-vision-for-the-solo-film#fOS6VYrqocoWCRyz.99
I don't think it's anything quite so worrisome or dramatic. Ben just realized how hard it is to balance the work of leading a film, writing it and directing it, all while facing some personal struggles that put the wind out of his sails. It's better for all of us and the project that he was "man" enough to step down from directing to seek out a partner who he could collaborate with. He can still have his vision, but he'll have another team on set to help him out with that, instead of taking so much of that weight on his own shoulders.
As for Reeves, it's great to see how passionate and knowledgable he is about the character. When you get directors who actually know the characters on a fundamental level, you get stuff like Nolan's Batman movies. Bring it on, I say.
But like Brady said, Gad is way too young.
If we do see him, he shouldn't be a big character or a main antagonist. Batman could simply come to him at the Iceberg Lounge to get some criminal underground info.
Gad is very much a different breed in that way, as I don't see him having that edge. He's the cutesy funny man with the Disney catalogue, and is played for humor in nearly everything. I would only want Oswald around if the tone was as it was with Burton's Batman, and he was kept as a very sickening pig with a serious inferiority complex. In short, the character we know. Making him silly or playing him off as comedic relief shouldn't be advised, and that's the worry I have with this possible news.
I just think that with character like Penguin, DC are heading into a territory where the ability to suspend disbelief only rises. For whatever reason, maybe it's my lack of care for this vision, I just can't stop feeling how goofy it is to watch a bunch of adults running around in tights. During BvS I was cringing at times, and it only then came to light for me how silly the prospect of all that I was seeing was. With Marvel they have a clear vision and a sense of fun, as opposed to Synder's rather Machiavellian world vision, and that makes it easy to forgive some of the aspects of the universe like the tights. You also care about the characters, and their journeys, so a lot is easy to accept when you see so much effort put in. I think DC's lack of these crucial elements only draw more eyes to what they aren't doing right, and how their characters are used. I just don't think the image of Penguin shooting a gun disguised as an umbrella and flying away with said umbrella would work in live-action. My worry is it would come off as silly and incongruous to the wrist-slashing world Snyder created and that he masturbates at the thought of.
Brady do you see what WB has done to me I actually am routing for the Penguin instead of hoping for an unused villain like Clayface Hush Hugo Strange or Mad Hatter (all of whom could hold a film together and be unique foes for not only Batman but the superhero genere at large)
I didn't see Suicide Squad but from the trailers Leto's joker felt bland but not horrible much like the Joker from young Justice again bland but not bad.
of course maybe there will be some kind of adaption of the Long Halloween sorry with Leto tweeting pics of him as joker...
unless Penguin is the villain in the Gotham City Sirens film (which considering the time line of when that group was inveted would make sense I never read a single issue but I know Penguin and Black Mask were at war with each other during that time so perhaps that will be apart of the film?)
The Burton film uses him shockingly well, even if it's not the version you expect. The film made an actual statement of "freaks" being more than they look, and his origin and how he entered into Gotham's underground is very sad, making him a sympathetic character. In the end, all he has is his birds after society does away with him. In many ways he's possible proof to Bruce about what would happen if a "freak" like himself tried to fight the good fight as Batman in the light of the public eye. It puts a target on you, and he makes the decision to always fight in shadow because of it. I almost feel like Burton was using that film to make a very personal statement that eccentric people like himself, people who could be teased as being odd or freakish as Penguin is, can do great things or are more than meets the eye. Penguin's character and how he's written has always felt like a giant projection of Burton's own mind, experiences and worries to me because of this. An element of autobiography seems to be at work somewhere in there...